Youtube servers running Fivenet?

[pa1pa1]

Today i noticed that selective youtube videos were giving me constant 2-5 megaByte download speed on me 1 megabit line which is suggestive of local youtube servers running fivenet. Also, since fivenet allows for unrestricted flow of data inside its own network, it supports my theory even more. I hope this is not just me or else it might just be temporary, so is any1 else having similar experiences?EDIT : Oh and really weird thing, i cant switch to 720p for those videos that are getting downloaded in seconds.( Server forcing local content down my throat?) and the rest of the videos that are taking longer to download, i'm able to switch to 720p for these. So is local low-res prioritised over remote HD content?

 

[saurabh28]

Even I am getting speed of 8 mbps while video is loading on YouTubeBut, I don't know whether YouTube hosted its server on Fivenet.

 

[amish]

u can note src ip from which video is coming (netstat command) and do a lookup on that IP (who owns the IP)

 

[sri]

you guys enjoying...

 

[merc782]

can you guys ping/tracert below youtube video server hostname and see if its on local fivenet network

tracert v3.lscache3.c.youtube.comping v3.lscache3.c.youtube.com

 

[pa1pa1]

Thats the thing, i cant seem to get ping/tracert commands to work. Both replying with requests timed out. Ports blocked(not on a router on my side)? Will try netstat.

@saurabh, Are you sure you were watching 720p quality? Even though the video had a "Youtube HD" watermark, it was actually playing at the same quality as before (360p). Try to look for a quality difference.

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@ amish : could you elaborate upon src?
Tried netstat :

When not buffering :

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP p***1:2413 by2msg4010612.phx.gbl:1863 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:2426 tx-in-f125.1e100.net:5222 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:2442 ip-174-142-41-65.static.privatedns.com:411 TIME
_WAIT
TCP p***1:3145 bom01s01-in-f100.1e100.net:http TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:895 localhost:3141 TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:1026 localhost:1027 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:1027 localhost:1026 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:1031 localhost:23560 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:2416 localhost:2419 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:2419 localhost:2416 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:23560 localhost:1031 ESTABLISHED

When buffering :

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP p***1:2413 by2msg4010612.phx.gbl:1863 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:2426 tx-in-f125.1e100.net:5222 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:2442 ip-174-142-41-65.static.privatedns.com:411 TIME
_WAIT
TCP p***1:3145 bom01s01-in-f100.1e100.net:http TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:3180 tx-in-f91.1e100.net:http TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:3260 host-240293.fivenetwork.com:http ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:3261 host-240293.fivenetwork.com:http ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:895 localhost:3141 TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:1026 localhost:1027 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:1027 localhost:1026 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:1031 localhost:23560 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:2416 localhost:2419 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:2419 localhost:2416 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:23560 localhost:1031 ESTABLISHED


The difference being : TCP p***1:3260 host-240293.fivenetwork.com:http ESTABLISHED

Is that what i should be looking for?

EDIT :
And while buffering a video which didn't seem to be on fivenet and buffered at expected subscribed net speeds:

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP p***1:2413 by2msg4010612.phx.gbl:1863 TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:2426 tx-in-f125.1e100.net:5222 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:3506 bom01s01-in-f100.1e100.net:https ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:3575 tx-in-f136.1e100.net:http TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:3587 bom01s01-in-f118.1e100.net:http TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:3599 tx-in-f136.1e100.net:http TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:3611 74.125.98.97:http ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:3616 tx-in-f136.1e100.net:http TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:3617 tx-in-f136.1e100.net:http TIME_WAIT
TCP p***1:1026 localhost:1027 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:1027 localhost:1026 ESTABLISHED
TCP p***1:1031 localhost:23560 ESTABLISHED
TCP pa1:23560 localhost:1031 ESTABLISHED

74.125.98.97: Belongs to google.

Does seem like we have y'tube servers on 5net doesn't it?

 

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[saurabh28]

@saurabh, Are you sure you were watching 720p quality? Even though the video had a "Youtube HD" watermark, it was actually playing at the same quality as before (360p). Try to look for a quality difference.



YouTube shown me 720p in the down-right corner. But, the quality was as 360p. 🙁

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We can't say that YouTube is running on fivenet servers, because all videos are not buffering at extraordinary speed like 8 mbps....

 

[alian1980]

Now, its back to normal guys!!yesterday, when I tried to open a youtube video, youtube asked me to enter certain string of character and gave a message we have noticed unusual activity originating from your network.... I was enjoying you tube at such blazing speed.Dont know how it was working then, but its back to the same speed now....😢😢😢

 

[saurabh28]

@alien1980 : Don't know about you I'm getting a little low speed on YouTube than that Blazing fast.I think video is loading @ 2mbps on my 256k connection....

 

[pa1pa1]

Yea it seems to have been capped at around 850 kBps now. Doesn't make much of a difference, since all videos load faster than you can watch them.

 

[saurabh28]

Today only I shifted from Fivenet to 24 online(Because of line-drops on fivenet)....I don't get this speed on 24online.....
But, yesterday when I was on Fivenet I noticed one thing in status bar of browser when YouTube video was loading.
It was showing Transferring data from 202.177.xxx.xxx.
As far as I know the above IP is of Fivenet....

 

[amish]

Cud it be that Fivenet is caching the youtube videos? 😀

 

[Sushubh]

would be possible only if seagate had acquired them. 🙂

 

[merc782]

Airtel has youtube caching servers (provided by google) in mumbai n bangalore, its possible that Fivenet also got them from google

 

[amish]

would be possible only if seagate had acquired them. 🙂

Haha, well I dont think you need terabytes of harddisk space for caching. Also max cache limit can be specified.

So if they purchase HDD of 1TB too, that shud be sufficient for keeping cache for 1 month or so. And old cache wud auto-purge