Tony
Staff member
Never heard that term? Yea, neither have I until today. I'm sure all of you have seen the issues with the live streams buffering horribly and me over here trying everything I know how to do to fix it. All the while I was simultaneously streaming to Twitch with the EXACT same settings and having absolutely NO issues whatsoever.
So today, I did some testing.
First thing I did was call up my ISP and ask them if they had a ban on my account for whatever reason and slowing youtube down. I already knew the answer because a company that put in a BRAND NEW FIBER INFRASTRUCTURE could care less about a 300mbps upload speed. So I did a test upload of a 3GB file so that I would have a little time to play with some settings.
In the end, I found a work around, but I'm not happy about it. When I upload/stream from my normal internet, youtube only allows about 7mbps speeds. Complete crap! But, while that upload is going on, if I hit the switch on my VPN and switch over to a dallas server, it goes up to 250mbps. Turn it off, back down to 7mbps.
So youtube has soft banned my IP address. Why do I say my IP, because I have tried this test on multiple youtube accounts with the same result. Coincidence? I think not.....
So today, I did some testing.
First thing I did was call up my ISP and ask them if they had a ban on my account for whatever reason and slowing youtube down. I already knew the answer because a company that put in a BRAND NEW FIBER INFRASTRUCTURE could care less about a 300mbps upload speed. So I did a test upload of a 3GB file so that I would have a little time to play with some settings.
In the end, I found a work around, but I'm not happy about it. When I upload/stream from my normal internet, youtube only allows about 7mbps speeds. Complete crap! But, while that upload is going on, if I hit the switch on my VPN and switch over to a dallas server, it goes up to 250mbps. Turn it off, back down to 7mbps.
So youtube has soft banned my IP address. Why do I say my IP, because I have tried this test on multiple youtube accounts with the same result. Coincidence? I think not.....