Metrocast limiting access to Youtube?

[MetalSmith]

Anyone else having issues watching videos on youtube? I have a windows desktop and a mac laptop and neither of them can load videos on youtube right now, which is making me think the problem is either the website or the ISP. Anyone else experiencing anything like this? I just get a dark screen, one out of 20 times I might be able to watch something.

 

[GURPS]

works fine from XO .... in Bowie

 

[Retrodeb54]

I had a problem yesterday. I had to click back and forth into other songs before one would play. It just wasn't connecting. Odd thing was there was no buffering (right word?) circle on them like usual. Just black box. *shrug* Haven't been there this morning. If its the same today I will come back and post again.

 

[aps45819]

Yes.
I put the GoPro on my windshield yesterday and did some parking lot spinning, trimmed and uploaded and now I can't watch the vids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV3mWpM_feY

 

[Retrodeb54]

Well. its not working for me either. At the site or any vids on here. Although I do have the spinning circle now.

 

[MarieB]

We've been having problems here and there

 

[MarieB]

Could it be the weather? I know my phone service isn't great today either.

I just got this error when trying to watch a video

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3037019?p=player_error1&rd=1

 

[desertrat]

Anyone else having issues watching videos on youtube? I have a windows desktop and a mac laptop and neither of them can load videos on youtube right now, which is making me think the problem is either the website or the ISP. Anyone else experiencing anything like this? I just get a dark screen, one out of 20 times I might be able to watch something.

From forums yes. At youtube itself, no.

 

[vraiblonde]

So is it Metrocast or the latest Flash update?

 

[bresamil]

According to isitdownrightnow, changing the MVU on your router from 1500 to 1492 works.(Please note I have no idea what that means.) All complaints said the site loaded and ads loaded but videos were black screen. My kids can't get youtube on computer or tablet but for some reason is it works on my son's phone. :shrug:

 

[Severa]

Changing the MTU from 1500 to 1492 worked for me.
I have a Netgear router and it's under Advanced - Setup - WAN Setup

 

[vraiblonde]

Changing the MTU from 1500 to 1492 worked for me.
I have a Netgear router and it's under Advanced - Setup - WAN Setup

This worked! You rock!

 

[GURPS]

According to isitdownrightnow, changing the MVU on your router from 1500 to 1492 works.

Changing the MTU from 1500 to 1492 worked for me.
I have a Netgear router and it's under Advanced - Setup - WAN Setup

This worked! You rock!

Definition: The MTU is the maximum size of a single data unit (e.g., a frame) of digital communications. MTU sizes are inherent properties of physical network interfaces, normally measured in bytes. The MTU for Ethernet, for instance, is 1500 bytes. Some types of networks (like Token Ring) have larger MTUs, and some types have smaller MTUs, but the values are fixed for each physical technology.

Higher-level network protocols like TCP/IP can be configured with a maximum packet size, a parameter independent of the physical layer MTU over which TCP/IP runs. Unfortunately, many network devices use the terms interchangeably. On both home broadband routers and Xbox Live enabled game consoles, for example, the parameter called MTU is in fact the maximum TCP packet size and not the physical MTU.

Metrocast might be restricting the max size below 1500 to slow traffic flow or having router issues

MTU size performance impacts
The MTU size of the network can have a large impact on performance.

The use of large MTU sizes allows the operating system to send fewer packets of a larger size to reach the same network throughput. The larger packets greatly reduce the processing required in the operating system, assuming the workload allows large messages to be sent. If the workload is only sending small messages, then the larger MTU size will not help.

When possible, use the largest MTU size that the adapter and network support. For example, on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) adapters, the default MTU size of 9180 is much more efficient than using a MTU size of 1500 bytes (normally used by LAN Emulation). With Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, if all of the machines on the network have Gigabit Ethernet adapters and no 10/100 adapters on the network, then it would be best to use jumbo frame mode. For example, a server-to-server connection within the computer lab can typically be done using jumbo frames.

back in the days of dial up when speeds were measured in kilobits or bytes per second ... the MTU was 500k with the speed and efficany of Broadband ... the default now is 1500 ....




try this.

> ping www.google.com -f -l 1500

Pinging www.l.google.com [74.125.236.50] with 1500 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.2: Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set.

keep lowering the 1500 down, until you standard response;

> ping www.google.com -f -l 1465
Pinging www.l.google.com [74.125.236.50] with 1400 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.236.50: bytes=1400 time=138ms TTL=53

An MTU value of 1465 worked for me. Likewise, you find the perfect MTU value for your system. Don't get it too low, else you will end up slowing down your internet connection speed.

Once you get the perfect MTU value, it is time to set it on your system. Do it this way:

> netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "WAN" mtu=1465 store=persistent

Don't blindly copy-paste that! The interface of your interest is probably called "Local Area Connection" or something like that, in which case, you do this:

> netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "Local Area Connection" mtu=1465 store=persistent

credit for the above goes to:

http://www.hacksparrow.com/web-speed-is-slow-but-torrent-speed-is-fast.html