Youtube

= How to make youtube videos load faster ? =


 * Bellow is a list of sites where I found some information...

Blocking incoming IPs

 * Apparently blocking inbount connection from the IPs listed below, improves the load of the youtube videos
 * Some sites are saying these IPs below the the Youtube/Google CDN networks for caching the youtube videos..


 * http://www.wikihow.com/Make-YouTube-Videos-Load-Faster


 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v8IwwZKMX4
 * http://www.nanog.org/meetings/abstract?meet=57&meet_type=9
 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5276772
 * http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-windows-guide/
 * https://peering.google.com/about/peering_policy.html
 * http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=15169
 * http://whatismyipaddress.com/cdn
 * http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/13kmvd/have_time_warner_internet_but_can_barely_stream/
 * http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/
 * http://www.studyblog.net/2011/10/block-ip-address-or-ip-range-in-windows-server-2008-by-windows-firewall/
 * https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#locations
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network


 * About the IPs listed bellow


 * 173.194.55.0 - Google Inc. (GOGL)
 * http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=173.194.55.0?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2


 * 206.111.0.0 - XO Communications (XOXO)
 * http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=206.111.0.0?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2

Sample blocking Msdos netsh rule
Windows firewall, block these IPs for inbound connections

173.194.55.0/24 206.111.0.0/16


 * 1) using  Msdos command with administrative rights
 * 2) to add the rule

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="YouTubeTweak" dir=in action=block remoteip=173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 enable=yes


 * 1) to remove the rule

netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="YouTubeTweak"

Subscribe the HTML5 on YouTube

 * source - http://www.apologetics315.com/2011/09/how-to-watch-youtube-videos-faster-2x.html


 * With the HTML5 version of YouTube you can view the videos at faster speeds. 1.5x speed and 2x speed!

https://www.youtube.com/html5