Is Reliance Jio 4G LTE Throttling Speeds through Traffic Shaping?

[vishalrao]

Yeah, it could be due to Google/Youtube doing local content caching, like a CDN, of some popular videos while some not-so-popular videos are still being fetched from far away and Jio does not have good international traffic bandwidth at all.

 

[deadmenkiller]

"Jio does not have good international traffic bandwidth at all." ???

Doesn't JIO member of International submarine communication cable system??

 

[volcano619]

Yeah Jio has a lot of international juice..

 

[vishalrao]

I wouldn't be so sure... they have *cables* from India to few nearby places like singapore/middle east - that's it. If the youtube videos are hosted in US or elsewhere who knows if Jio has that capacity all the way to that end?

(Of course, I'm not speaking with any authoritative knowledge, so I could be totally wrong)

 

[raman07]

India to Singapore server latency sucks really bad on jio network and i tested youtube host by ping them and many of USA based stream server show response time of 70ms and some 300ms+ So don't know if it is because of international bandwidth issue or there is something else.

Someone ping this server to me and report back what is latency : r5.sn-a5mlrn7l.googlevideo.com

 

[Jagannath Samal]

Here you go:

 

[raman07]

Someone on reddit has given a soloution of YouTube buffering. That guy have 1000mbps connection and still suffering from YouTube buffering on random video just like us. So when ever he come across a slow server he note down that server and block it via host file.

Here is his post : Source


Currently i just reload the video until stream start from fast server.

 

[dantool]

I was staying at a hotel in sector 83 gurgaon for the weekend, so I took my jio connection with me thinking that it would give me better speeds then the hotel wifi. Surprisingly it was quite slow there and YouTube /Netflix buffered like anything.

I have never experienced buffering at my place in delhi. So my guess is there's no throttling of individual connection , speed varies depending on which place you are accessing it from.

 

[thisisit]

^ I think @raman07 's assertion came from using the connection at the same place and not two different coverage areas.

 

[RedskyITM]