Comments on: More Caching Servers in Malaysia http://blog.datakl.com/2011/11/more-caching-server-in-malaysia/ DataKL Blog Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:38:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kendall Lister http://blog.datakl.com/2011/11/more-caching-server-in-malaysia/comment-page-1/#comment-651 Kendall Lister Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:02:42 +0000 http://blog.datakl.com/?p=630#comment-651 For months we’ve been wondering why YouTube videos load so slowly for us on our 4 Mbps Streamyx connection. This morning I realised that Vimeo videos and videos from Apple load much faster: 300+ KBps vs 70 KBps for YouTube videos. I discovered that the Apple videos were coming from an Akamai server on a network maintained by TM, and then I found your post, with heng’s comment describing the same low speed for uncached YouTube videos that we are experiencing. This explains why when the TM technician installed our service the YouTube videos he used to demonstrate the speed loaded so much faster than the ones we have been trying to watch: he was picking whatever was on YouTube’s home page, which was almost certainly cached, whereas the videos we like are unfortunately much less popular. Suddenly it all makes sense – thanks!

]]> By: heng http://blog.datakl.com/2011/11/more-caching-server-in-malaysia/comment-page-1/#comment-599 heng Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:49:26 +0000 http://blog.datakl.com/?p=630#comment-599 Only popular videos are cached.

If you tried to load some less popular ones, it redirects you to the noext youtube servers. Then wait for a few minutes for TM to cache, reload the video again and voila, it connects to the TM cache servers. The difference in speed is huge, for uncached videos, the speed max out at around 60kbytes/s, while the cached ones maxes out your broadband speed limit.

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