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Getting very sick of the unbelievably tight management. only getting 50KBps per connection on youtube making 480p videos unwatchable! even 320p vids buffer like mad. I'm having to use a download manager to grab the mp4 at a reasonable rate. well as soon as NextGen get in touch bye bye karoo.
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marko
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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2010, 06:56:18 pm » |
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That was another reason I wanted away from Karoo.
I've just watched a 4 minute 22 second 1080 HD video on youtube and by the time i'd reached 1 minute 12 seconds, the video had finished loading. No where near ever catching up or buffering.
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GarethG
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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2010, 07:48:03 pm » |
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I feel exactly the same, I will also be leaving Karoo very shortly (Hopefully)
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Hígh Treason
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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2010, 09:50:39 pm » |
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You'll be dissapointed, that issue is with YouTube itself and not Karoo.
There is a way to un-cap your Karoo speed if you are suffering from Traffic Shaping though.
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GarethG
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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2010, 10:02:00 pm » |
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Would that include upgrading to the newer packages by any chance  I find this isn't isolated to just youtube, most streaming sites do it for me because of the shaping. It didn't use to happen, only since they introduced this more strict version |
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commandergc
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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2010, 10:18:43 pm » |
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You'll be dissapointed, that issue is with YouTube itself and not Karoo. It's not a youtube issue. connected and streamed an HD video through a mates 50Mb VM cable connection via an SSH tunnel. |
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Hígh Treason
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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2010, 10:23:02 pm » |
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Some of it will be Traffic Shaping, but YouTube is just slow these days. Un-Capping does not involve upgrading your package¹, it just relies on a flaw in the system - or more to the point, it relies on a flaw in how it is triggered². Your mate is one of the lucky ones, usually it just depends on YouTube's mode, I have seen a 1Gbit/s connection fail to buffer at more than 30Kbit/s before now. Also, as far as I am aware you can't do that via SSH. ¹As far as I know
²Maybe I will share my knowlege later and risk it slowing my internet down
³Can you make symbols like that ‘¹²³’ without using charachter map or the Numeric Keypad¿   |
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Scotty
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« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2010, 10:44:49 pm » |
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Some of it will be Traffic Shaping, but YouTube is just slow these days. Un-Capping does not involve upgrading your package¹, it just relies on a flaw in the system - or more to the point, it relies on a flaw in how it is triggered². Your mate is one of the lucky ones, usually it just depends on YouTube's mode, I have seen a 1Gbit/s connection fail to buffer at more than 30Kbit/s before now. Also, as far as I am aware you can't do that via SSH. ¹As far as I know
²Maybe I will share my knowlege later and risk it slowing my internet down
³Can you make symbols like that ‘¹²³’ without using charachter map or the Numeric Keypad¿ I think you should share your secret! |
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dylan
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« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2010, 11:46:58 pm » |
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Here's how I understand it.
Routes to some destinations are more heavily congested than others. For the sake of simplicity, lets say that KC's route to YouTube only allows a max of 'x' amount of traffic. When KC reach that, the route to YouTube becomes highly congested. There may be spare capacity on KC's route to, lets say the BBC, but that doesn't matter. You don't want to get to the BBC so that's no good for you.
For arguments sake lets say you have another computer, on another network and that the route to that network from KC's network is not congested. If you proxy your connection to YouTube through that computer then you won't see the buffering (as you have now got around the congested route).
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« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2010, 09:07:31 am » |
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You'll be dissapointed, that issue is with YouTube itself and not Karoo.
There is a way to un-cap your Karoo speed if you are suffering from Traffic Shaping though.
I think you should share too, although Karoo representatives read this forum I suppose. Would appreciate it tho.  ITV player was a buffer fest last night too. |
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« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2010, 10:09:56 am » |
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Don't know if this is true or coincidence, but I recently changed my supplied microfilter from KC (Its about 5-6 years old, maybe more) with one bought from broadband buyer and it seems to have reduced quite considerably the amount of buffer time required on videos. This includes during peak and off-peak times. There is still some buffering during peak times due to the traffic shaping but its alot better.
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« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2010, 11:27:19 am » |
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i give up trying to watch xxx (the film )last night because off poor streaming
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commandergc
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« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2010, 10:03:47 pm » |
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Great now it looks like their throttling Steam too. taken almost 2 hours to download 1100mb and i still have another 700mb to go.
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« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2010, 10:19:31 pm » |
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my net on weekends is poor from 10am i get around 200k asec
from about 3pm during the week i get around 100-150 k a sec
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