Hello. I've had great YouTube connection speeds all year. I can usually stream 1080p over wifi. However, for the last 30 days, I have been experiencing intermittent YouTube video playback. Rather than a reduction in speed that forces me to switch to a lower quality, any quality I select fails to buffer. Sometimes I can get 240p/360p to load, and it will buffer about 45 seconds of video. It will soon 'gray out' and not be selectable in the YouTube player's quality menu. This pattern repeats for each quality selection, even for 144p! I can't seem to get a stable connection. The YouTube 'my_speed' graph represents this fluctuation in the downstream:
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7554/7p01.png
The negative trend in the graph ultimately represents the periodic buffering I'm receiving. I have confirmed that users on CenturyLink/Quest in my area
(East Mesa) have no reported problems with YouTube video playback.
I have already tried several DNS servers including Google Public DNS, OpenDNS, and several other Cox DNS servers. I have ensured my connection with my router is good (I'm getting around -60dBM.), but I am having the same problem on my wired connections. I've tried blocking certian ip's known for 'ISP caching' but to no avail.
Are there any other solutions? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
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