How to make online videos consume entire bandwidth ?

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I am facing this issue with youtube and few other websites like kickstarter etc where the videos that i want to view, do not consume entire available bandwidth of 1 Mbps I have. Because of this i have to pause the video and wait for it to entirely buffer and where possible i download it using IDM.
But downloading is not possible in few websites.
So how do i ensure that videos use my entire bandwidth. In may case they use anywhere between 1/4th to 1/2 of the bandwidth.
 
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Actually real issue here is our isps routing. Sure content is cached locally on indian server but lame routing by our indian isps makes it useless.
It adds more latency and hence stuttering video playback.
 
cisco_tech said:
Actually real issue here is our isps routing. Sure content is cached locally on indian server but lame routing by our indian isps makes it useless.
It adds more latency and hence stuttering video playback.
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Some ISPs in the US were found to throttle some CDNs. In the case of the SOuth Asian region, it might be that the CDNs are just overcrowded. Here's a reddit thread.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/...ernet_but_can_barely_stream/c750w8x?context=1

You can try doing what the second and third commentors did and block the caches and try to get the stream from Google's own server.
 
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Hmmm. You might be correct. need to dig these cdns. As far as i remember cdns are there in bombay on vsnl's server.
 
What to do with websites like kickstarter etc? Yesterday i was browsing this website and loaded a video (tried both firefox and chrome separately) and in each the video would consume around 300 kbps max (i paused the video to allow it to load), so i started to load 2 more videos and that's when my entire 1 Mbps was consumed.
Also what about other websites like putlocker, vimeo, vixden etc ?
 
I hate that when South park changes from HD to SD whenever bandwidth changes.

I have 2 Mbps connection. When video uses <1Mbps its SD and when > 1Mbps it goes HD automatically and stopping the playback. Really annoying
 
I have been suffering the same plight as well. With a 1MBPS connection Youtube videos keep pausing to buffer. So darn annoying at times when the video just pauses mid-way. :inpain:

@raksrules: Did you find any work-around to this problem?
 
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May work or not work but try watching the videos in chrome (especially youtube) and it might consume more / entire bandwidth.
 
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I have been suffering the same plight as well. With a 1MBPS connection Youtube videos keep pausing to buffer. So darn annoying at times when the video just pauses mid-way. :inpain:

@raksrules: Did you find any work-around to this problem?
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For slower connections, try using this extension.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...outube/lnkdbjbjpnpjeciipoaflmpcddinpjjp?hl=en

Google stops buffering after a few seconds but with this extension, you can force the whole video to buffer. You might have to wait for the whole thing to load but at least you won't have the pausing problem.
 
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Having a harrowing time watching the samsung unpacked event on youtube. Tried firefox, chrome and safari and it pauses a lot. The video for the first 15 minutes was working smoothly on 360p but later started pausing and stuttering. Not sure why. Speeds drop to under 100 kbps and video pauses.
Sucks.
 
My experience says google limits the download speed specially when I watch it in 360p or lower (I guess the flv format).
I have experimented by downloading the same youtube video in both 360p format and 720p , the 720p format downloads in far lesser time than it takes for the 360 format.
 
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