Comments on: Eircom slowing YouTube?

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:08:11 +0000

I again noticed a slow down of youtube videos. I am not sure what’s going on an dstarted browsing the net. That’s when I came across your article. I hope they will fix it soon…

By: malcom

malcom — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:20:59 +0000

Yeah ive noticed it too! im from scotland isp - bt and it freezes for about 20 secs loading a page and videos are slower to :S so maybe bt and eircom are up too something

By: gman

gman — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:13:27 +0000

hi
wow, yes suddenly youtube is about 50 times slower loading . Nothing else has changed.
geoff

By: chris

chris — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:16:40 +0000

I think it has to do with eircom…!!!Im also on the 2 meg package, and youtube videos take about 5/10 mins to load its ok in the morning but after about 5pm its horrable,,even loading pages is very slow!!!I have no spy ware or viruses and also ive used linux to see if it makes a diffrence…guess what nope………!!!! I fell i shouldnt pay them for such a bad service but what can you do ???

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:30:41 +0000

I think it has to do with the fact that alot of people are putting these videos on their sites; this still affects bandwidth on the YouTube site doesn’t it?

By: Sin Jin

Sin Jin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:44:32 +0000

I have noticed that my youtube videos with Bt have gone slower than before.
It takes a lot of time to download the videos.I hope they do something abt it.

Cheers

By: Sabul

Sabul — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:23:02 +0000

i also notice the slowing down, i think youtube needs to throw away useless videos …celaring those low quality videos..

By: JW

JW — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:03:07 +0000

Got eircom broadband last week 2Mb service - youtube is unbelievably slow. Exact same problem as John Madden above. Eircom try to fob it off as spyware

By: John Madden

John Madden — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:45:43 +0000

youtube is very slow right now from 8-15-07 to now its actually acting as if it was a dial up connection literally i use att yahoo dsl and youtube videos show 3 sec of footage and pauses AND CONTINUES THE PATTERN TILL IT FINISHES

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:09:34 +0000

John - I had written about OpenDNS previously but had reverted to Eircom’s DNS unwittingly at some point.

After your reminder, I went back to OpenDns once more and Lo! YouTube videos came down much faster once more.

Nice one,

Thanks,

Tom.

By: Dennis Deery

Dennis Deery — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:03:42 +0000

Tom, I mentioned earlier I’m using Eircom and not seeing any problems. I’m also using OpenDNS, so John’s suggestion might have something to it as well.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:49:38 +0000

Does the local Youtube work any faster for you http://ie.youtube.com/ , maybe it was because they were doing some work on the regional part of their site recently ?

By: John Handelaar

John Handelaar — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:18:56 +0000

…or fix your DNS settings and route around Eircom’s utter inability to get its own nameservers to resolve anything in under two seconds.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:45:27 +0000

I’m with BT in the UK and youtube is pretty slow at the moment. I thought it might be something to do with the launch of the UK specific site, since both that and the ‘main’ youtube site a really, really slow. Something is skewif, just not sure where.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:04:53 +0000

That’s a possibility Joe but I doubt it - I’m not a heavy user - I watch one or two YouTube videos per day at most and I don’t download BitTorrents.

I’ll enquire with Eircom though - the speed of the service has really deteriorated lately.

By: Joe Drumgoole

Joe Drumgoole — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:49:35 +0000

Hi Tom,

Eircom may be throttling you specifically. Its not unknown for ISPs to put a gate on traffic from individuals who they consider to be ‘ahem’ abusing their service. Check with your neighours and see if they get the same results as you do on an Irish ISP speed test.

Joe.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:53:21 +0000

Thanks Dennis - well, so much for my Eircom conspiracy theory, eh?

In that case, it must be some kind of local problem.

By: Dennis Deery

Dennis Deery — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:23:55 +0000

Eircom in County Waterford here Tom, things seem to be coming down just fine.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:01:31 +0000

Hmmm, so it seems to be Eircom specific in that case - thanks Aido.

By: aido

aido — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:29:51 +0000

Am with BT at home and YouTube on Sunday evening was grand.