<story><title>How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube</title><url>http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/time-warner-cable-sucks-for-youtube-twitchtv/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tensafefrogs</author><text>Hi, ex-youtube video eng here. (also posted this as a comment on the blog post)&lt;p&gt;A while ago YouTube put together a speed information page that you could use to check out your download speeds as well as compare to other isps in your area:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/my_speed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/my_speed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m also on Time Warner, and my graph shows wild inconsistencies - sometimes it spikes up to much faster than others, sometimes it&apos;s way below the average speed, and it also shows that Time Warner is the slowest provider out of all of the NYC area ISPs.&lt;p&gt;I wish it was easier to switch to another provider out here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanhuff</author><text>Thanks for the my_speed link.  When I run the test video contained at 720p, I consistently get outstanding video with no streaming pauses.&lt;p&gt;However, if I switch to another video (say a Google IO 2012 presentation), I get long pauses within the video constantly.  5-10 seconds of video, with 3-5 second pauses.  In short, the test is hardly representative of my normal YouTube results.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube</title><url>http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/time-warner-cable-sucks-for-youtube-twitchtv/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tensafefrogs</author><text>Hi, ex-youtube video eng here. (also posted this as a comment on the blog post)&lt;p&gt;A while ago YouTube put together a speed information page that you could use to check out your download speeds as well as compare to other isps in your area:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/my_speed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/my_speed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m also on Time Warner, and my graph shows wild inconsistencies - sometimes it spikes up to much faster than others, sometimes it&apos;s way below the average speed, and it also shows that Time Warner is the slowest provider out of all of the NYC area ISPs.&lt;p&gt;I wish it was easier to switch to another provider out here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangrossman</author><text>I&apos;m on FiOS, and my graph &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; shows wild inconsistencies, sometimes spiking up much faster than others, sometimes way below every other line in the graph for multiple days. I&apos;m leaning towards this not being an ISP problem at all until there&apos;s more evidence.</text></comment>