YouTube Plugin

[mvallevand]

Martin....what does your tracert look like to youtube.com......mine is below....

Code:

from the NMT (using a modified busybox)
busybox traceroute youtube.com
traceroute: warning: youtube.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.226.45
traceroute to youtube.com (74.125.226.45), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1  7.26.36.1 (7.26.36.1)  17.346 ms  7.327 ms  8.515 ms
2  67.231.222.29 (67.231.222.29)  17.822 ms  11.362 ms  11.774 ms
3  so-4-1-0.gw02.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com (66.185.83.198)  16.139 ms  15.840 ms  16.385 ms
4  69.63.251.146 (69.63.251.146)  16.229 ms  15.583 ms  14.209 ms
5  72.14.216.14 (72.14.216.14)  15.599 ms  14.956 ms  15.722 ms
6  216.239.47.114 (216.239.47.114)  16.352 ms  14.931 ms  14.520 ms
7  64.233.175.132 (64.233.175.132)  15.866 ms  15.085 ms  14.187 ms
8  yyz06s06-in-f13.1e100.net (74.125.226.45)  13.904 ms  16.513 ms  14.035 ms

and on the PC

Tracing route to youtube.com [74.125.226.36]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     8 ms     7 ms     7 ms  7.26.36.1
  2    26 ms    11 ms     8 ms  67.231.222.37
  3    17 ms    14 ms    15 ms  so-4-1-0.gw02.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.83.198]
  4    13 ms    14 ms    15 ms  gw01.mtmc.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.81.137]
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6    16 ms    15 ms    19 ms  216.239.47.114
  7    15 ms    14 ms    26 ms  64.233.175.132
  8    17 ms    14 ms    15 ms  yyz06s06-in-f4.1e100.net [74.125.226.36]

Trace complete.

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

Your stats look alot better than mine.....probably why you are getting better results....

I wonder if I hook the NMT to the WAN router if that would improve anything....currently the WAN router connects to an 8 port gb switch which connects the NMT and the NPVR server and NAS and uplinks to another 8 port GB switch

[mvallevand]

I did a quick search for FIOS and google-gw.customer.alter.net and there are lots of complaints about slow youtube. Someone suggested using an alternate DNS to see if it changes your route. For comparison I use OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220) but Google's is pretty easy to remember 8.8.8.8

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

I did a quick search for FIOS and google-gw.customer.alter.net and there are lots of complaints about slow youtube. Someone suggested using an alternate DNS to see if it changes your route. For comparison I use OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220) but Google's is pretty easy to remember 8.8.8.8

Martin

I use opendns now.....never new google offered a dns service.

[ACTCMS]

It looks like I'm just on the edge of the known universe...

Code:

Tracing route to youtube.com [74.125.230.139]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  sbs2003.tippitt.local [192.168.16.2]
  2    29 ms    99 ms    99 ms  BThomehub.home [192.168.1.254]
  3    32 ms    32 ms    30 ms  217.47.95.122
  4    30 ms    31 ms    30 ms  217.47.207.161
  5    39 ms    38 ms    39 ms  213.1.69.74
  6    38 ms    39 ms    38 ms  213.120.157.26
  7    39 ms    39 ms    39 ms  213.120.157.178
  8    39 ms    38 ms    39 ms  acc1-10GigE-10-2-0.mr.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.250.74]
  9    47 ms    47 ms    47 ms  core1-te0-4-0-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.250.1]
10    45 ms    45 ms    45 ms  peer1-xe2-0-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.254.100]
11    46 ms    46 ms    45 ms  195.99.126.111
12    91 ms    46 ms    45 ms  66.249.94.78
13    46 ms    46 ms    46 ms  209.85.251.58
14    46 ms    46 ms    45 ms  lhr14s02-in-f11.1e100.net [74.125.230.139]

Trace complete.

Alex

[UncleJohnsBand]

I did a quick search for FIOS and google-gw.customer.alter.net and there are lots of complaints about slow youtube. Someone suggested using an alternate DNS to see if it changes your route. For comparison I use OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220) but Google's is pretty easy to remember 8.8.8.8

Martin

I use opendns now.....never new google offered a dns service.

Tried Google DNS.....picked up 3 more hops than I already had and no difference..... went back to openDNS

[mvallevand]

Are you changing the DNS on your NMT? You find it with the command

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

Are you changing the DNS on your NMT? You find it with the command

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Martin

I assume I use telnet to get to the box and go to that location? what do I edit it with? Need step by step for this....

[mvallevand]

Yes telnet and the command is cat (*nix command that is like "type")

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

Yes telnet and the command is cat (*nix command that is like "type")

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Martin

I don't think I need to change anything here......when I changed my dns server I changed it on the router not an individual PC so since the NMT is pointing to the router it would have been using the Google DNS server.

Code:

/ # cat /etc/resolv.conf
search home
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver 208.67.222.222
/ #

I have continued the search on FIOS and slow youtube and there are threads out there that point to Verizon packet shaping traffic and that there are noticeable issues with youtube.

Perhaps and enhacement (not sure if possible) would to be able to config for no-cache or cache x seconds where user can plug in the x and the the video would cache for that long on the server and then pass the server url to the NMT to play the cached file?