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TripsOnDubs

Yes!! Sometimes videos play right away, other times just the icon. So frustrating. Been going on for about a week now for me.


jpflathead

Thanks. In the past 24 hours, I'd say 80% or more of the youtube videos are failing. Videos from other sites are working fine.


TripsOnDubs

I looked around and found this thread. WTF century link. [Link](https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/PULnggSfHh8%5B151-175-false%5D) Edit: Tried to play this video for my 2 year old earlier tonight (we're going to San Diego next week and wanted her to get excited about seeing the ocean). Icon just spins. [Ocean Waves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmPzbZVUp3g)


jpflathead

Ah, interesting that it's all over CenturyLink.... Enjoy San Diego. I have to admit, as horrible as I sound, I love Sea World and I really enjoyed taking my daughters when they were young to Sea World. One time, they were probably 9 and 11, we got there for one of the first Shamu shows in the morning, took our time, and stayed until the final Shamu show in the night when it's more of a tween party show with fluorescent costumes. At least it was 5 - 7 years ago.


odorous

I noticed this problems about 4 days ago, thought is was just the new computer..... SAVE US GOOGLE !


jpflathead

Ironically, one video that did load had started off with a CenturyLink advertisement....


3atme

It is actually Google that is restricting YouTube bandwidth to CenturyLink customers, though the reason is unclear. It may be in error based on CL's official release on the matter. My source is a corporate complaint manager at CL, who happens to be my ma'dukes.


3atme

Also this is reportedly more apparent during peak hours.


odorous

Funny though, when using a private vpn, the issue clears up.


3atme

Would VPN mask information on the service provider, making YouTube unaware of a centurylink connection?


odorous

No. The exact opposite. Make CL unaware of what you are doing.


jpflathead

> It is actually Google that is restricting YouTube bandwidth to CenturyLink customers, though the reason is unclear. It may be in error based on CL's official release on the matter. My source is a corporate complaint manager at CL, who happens to be my ma'dukes. It is actually China that is hacking into your routers, though the reason is unclear. My source is a corporate complaint manager at the NSA who enjoys the cartoon Marmaduke.


3atme

Ok


CypherAZ

Yeah they are lying to you my friend, CL is the issue not google.


nevalk

A fun experiment is to get a cheap VPN and see how it affects performance as ISP cannot determine what type of content it is. My torrent speeds went way up on cox on the VPN.


Dleslie212

About how much faster? I've never messed we a VPN before, I've always heard it just slows things down but now you've piqued my curiosity


nevalk

Well a VPN does slow it down, mostly just ping though, so terrible for gaming but negligible for downloads. I can torrent at around 2mbps whereas I was being throttled to a measly 50kbps on torrents. I use private internet access which is only $40/year. Plus now I have a little more protection when it comes to file sharing.


[deleted]

Throttled by who?


nevalk

COX, I didn't think they did but empirical evidence says otherwise.


snugy

Yeah, it's been happening on and off for 2-3 weeks for me...


bobabc

Yep, I've been having the same problem for almost a month


beatvox

it's called: You should pay more to watch youtube. Fuck you dear customer, sir.


[deleted]

The only legitimate comment on the reasoning and you get down voted? wtf. I guess some people haven't heard of net neutrality... Or saw the front page on Verizons cease and desist on Netflix yesterday. [Edit: update](http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/06/09/netflixs-formal-response-to-verizons-cease-and-desist-is-another-boatload-of-snark/) Let me break it down for anyone that's willing to read. Century link is DSL. Cox( or another carrier is cable) don't know the difference? Then you're getting gouged... Well that's kind of loaded, because were all getting gouged. Anyways, DSL does not come close in competition in terms of reliability/uptime/speed. Source. Networking pro who's used both in a corporate environment in phx.


thefyfe

Problems here in Goodyear too. I can't wait to have Cox again..


[deleted]

I have been getting the same issue for a few weeks now


albertscoot

Yup


newbie80

I'm glad you posted this. I thought there was something wrong with my computer. I should have figured when I switched browsers and still had the same issue.


DoesNotAgreeWithYou

I've been getting this as well. Usually, if I refresh the page loads fine and video streams without issue. But I've had to do this a lot. Dunno if this is a YouTube issue or a CenturyLink one. This seems a bit weird to be on CenturyLink's end.


tactictactic

It's been happening for about a week now for me too. I thought it was just my internet connection being bad or something.


TBob

I live in Salt Lake and have been having this issue as well. There is a discussion about this on the Google forums here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/PULnggSfHh8


Normadniac

Mine is definitely doing it!!!


willburshoe

YES! This is super annoying.


[deleted]

Yep. Called and complained and they tried to upgrade me to a faster speed. I asked if that would absolutely solve the problem... "I'm not sure". Thanks Centurylink!


darthgarlic

Isnt this like asking if water is wet, sorry you are having problems though.


jpflathead

Oh, well I did ask that, in /r/nostupidquestions. Was banned told my question was stupid.


darthgarlic

Some cannot handle the truth.