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chickenpie
Joined: 24 Dec 2008
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:47 am Post subject: Why is youtube so slow in Korea? |
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Nearly every music or documentary video I try to watch lately is so bloody slow.......wasn't like this a few years ago......why? |
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JustinC
Joined: 10 Mar 2012 Location: We Are The World!
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: Why is youtube so slow in Korea? |
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chickenpie wrote: |
Nearly every music or documentary video I try to watch lately is so bloody slow.......wasn't like this a few years ago......why? |
Same here. I blame Yahoo! |
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waynehead
Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Location: Jongno
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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It comes and goes, at peak times it can be ridiculously slow compared to other sites, the general consensus seems to be there's some kind of block on Korea and that there's nothing really you can do. |
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yoitsmykey
Joined: 06 Feb 2012
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, youtube bandwidth is being throttled here in Korea.
At times, I can barely stream 480p from youtube. So I just connect to my VPN located in the US and I can easily stream 1080p. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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It's gotten better recently. Last year I couldn't stream even bleeding 240p without it stuttering and buffering all the time. This year 480p is (mostly) no problem. |
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scorpiocandy
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:36 am Post subject: |
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For me, youtube is about the only site that streams properly. Every other site I use is crap. I thought maybe if I used hotspotshield it would go better but it's the same.
Downloads still go like crazy though but I prefer to just stream the stuff and watch as I want rather than have to download everything. |
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waynehead
Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Location: Jongno
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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May I ask what ISP you're using? I'm with KT's 100 MB service, everything else is super fast but I sometimes get pauses on 360 vids if I'm watching at peak times on youtube (I live in Seoul, btw).
However, like another poster said, it is better than it used to be. A year or so ago youtube was virtually unusuable, nowadays I can make it work most of the time. |
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scorpiocandy
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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I also use KT and live in Seoul. Not sure if it's the 100mb thing. I didn't make the request.
Generally for me everything is slow- opening google, hulu is choppy. It's just awful.
I thought it was my laptop or my connection at home, but I took my netbook to work last week so different machine, different connection in a different area of Seoul and it was the same thing.
Youtube fine, all other sites bad. |
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Kimchifart
Joined: 15 Sep 2010
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:22 am Post subject: |
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They do a lot of traffic management and shaping. International connections frequently suck. Skype has become virtually useless over the past year. It is now possible only about 50% of the time to make a long distance call on Skype without getting the good old "you're breaking up...can't hear you"
I think some of it has to do with the international undersea pipes. Low bandwidth possibly. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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I've had the same problem when using Firefox. With Chrome, its much faster. |
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djmarcus
Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject: Re: Why is youtube so slow in Korea? |
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chickenpie wrote: |
Nearly every music or documentary video I try to watch lately is so bloody slow.......wasn't like this a few years ago......why? |
In my office, I get 80Mbps up/download speeds according to speedtest.net. I don't have the lag problem here that you mention for youtube, but I certainly do have it at home. I have SK Wifi. I could hard wire into the router using a cable, but I hate having cables everywhere so I just deal with the slow speed.
If your speed test does not have the same results as my speed, you might want to upgrade to a higher level, or if your on wifi, try plugging in directly to the router. |
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Jbko
Joined: 17 Jan 2010
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Get yourself a faster INTERNET connection GIGA internet Kornet |
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