airtel peering with youtube videos and is causing embed error

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I've been facing slow loading of videos on my 2 mbps for long now .. I use openDNS .. and videos go buffering even in night time when the speed is 4 mbps .. any suggestion guys ..?
 
Kind of a late reply, & this problem might have been solved......but I have no problem watching embedded videos.
Have you tried clearing your cache?

A long time ago, I had a problem with youtube videos - they were taking an insanely long time to load on Firefox. I thought it was my connection, but the loading was fine in IE. Clearing my Firefox cache solved the problem.

I've been facing slow loading of videos on my 2 mbps for long now .. I use openDNS .. and videos go buffering even in night time when the speed is 4 mbps .. any suggestion guys ..?
Since Airtel seems to be peering with Youtube, try setting your DNS servers to the default Airtel ones & see if it works out....I've never heard of a daytime 2Mbps / Night 4Mbps plan, but anyway, it's worth a shot.
 
even HTML5 doesn't work for me in opera I get a blank region instead of the video :(maybe its cause of the fanboy adblock list i use
 
heh yeah probably. opera supports both webm and webp. so html5 videos on youtube should work fine on it.
 
maybe its just me or.. the thing i noticed while playing via normal flash interface is if you close a tab in between & move on to some video, the old one still keeps on getting buffered in the background.Thus making the next video even slower. And if you open the last video again.. you will find its buffered portion has moved forward... arghhave to close the broswer again n again to end that.
 
you mean to say you close a tab with a video that is streaming and it continues to stream? i do remember reading about a similar bug on opera forum. maybe it does not kill the adobe flash player instance created for that tab. could be possible.
 
youtube is acting wierd these days
sometime even low reso videos get stuck :/
also IDM shows this link while downloading videos

Code:
http://o-o.preferred.bhartibb-del1.v17.lscache6.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?
usually it shows something like

Code:
http://v7.cache7.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?
any suggestions?
P.s am using google dns

In theory, anything streaming from a URL like http://o-o.preferred.bhartibb-del1.v17.lscache6.c.youtube.com should stream fast. Let's break it down:

o-o = not sure
preferred = self explanatory? Bharti being India's largest supplier of International bandwidth probably makes them a preferred route.
bhartibb-del1 = bharti bb is Airtel, and probably refers to it's main AS number (AS9498), with del1 being probably the main NOC location in Delhi (some ISPs have more than one NOC in large cities for redundancy and so forth)
v17 = which server in the cabinet the video is being streamed from: v17 resolves to 122.160.89.17, v16 resolves to 122.160.89.25, v15 resolves to resolves to 122.160.89.22 and so forth, so I would suspect that this equals video server #17...
lscache6 = lscache is some kind of memcache inspired library called "localstorage" or something - there is every chance that Google has written something based on this or is using it directly...
c.youtube.com = youtube.com cdn

if you are using google public dns, how are you even getting airtel peering :P

i am on airtel and i am using google dns... i have not noticed any issues with youtube videos. have not noticed the source of the feed though.

Maybe Google's CDN/Cache is getting more sophisti-ma-cated nowadays - a little reverse IP lookups on Google's end could go a long way to determining performance if the IP resolves to a network which Google knows about - and as above, I presume Google knows about Airtel, and we know that Google is rather enthusiastic about providing a good user experience. Of course, I may be very wrong on all counts, but for me, the above URL resolves to a server in India itself: ABTS-North-Static-025.89.160.122.airtelbroadband.in [122.160.89.25]

Again, mostly theory, but looks pretty close.
 
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