JWBananas

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Word of mouth

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Star Trek memes are overrated

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"What? You don't want to share this to someone you haven't spoken to in a year?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Rick Astley on a loop?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Plenty of humans make those judgements about their own creations. And plenty of them get a shock when they release their creations to the masses and don't get the praise that they expected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry, wrong number!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Waiting for the oil pressure to protect the timing chain.

Or, in the winter, waiting for the CVT to warm up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When your layer 1 problem turns into a layer 3 problem 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sometimes, less is more.

I would recommend trimming all your custom configuration from your router/firewall, one change at a time, until you can no longer reproduce the issue.

Or go the other way around: set up a barebones configuration, confirm the issue is resolved, and begin adding one customization at a time until it breaks.

How do your bufferbloat tests look?

https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat

It sounds like you have a lot of stateful inspection configured. YouTube's heavy usage of QUIC (i.e. UDP transport) may not play well with your config.

And, incidentally, what does your hardware look like?

Frankly, even the most barebones router should be able to handle YouTube. I am running pfSense in an ESXi VM, with passthru Intel gigabit NICs, 2 GB reserved RAM, and 2 vCPU (shared, but with higher priority than other VMs) on a Dell desktop with a second-gen i7 that was shipped from the factory in 2012.

Yes, I am routing on decade-old hardware. And I have never seen anything like what you are describing.

YouTube should "just work."

I am going to assume that if you're running OpenWRT, then you are probably using a typical consumer router? Please correct me if I am wrong.

Have you by any chance tried backing up your OpenWRT config and going back to stock firmware?

I know, I know, OpenWRT is great. I have a consumer router that I flashed with it to use strictly as a wireless AP.

But consumer devices flashed with vanilla OpenWRT tend to have very, very little resources left over to handle fun configurations.

And I have a feeling some of the fun configuration might be contributing to your issues.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just storage capacity either. Google uses custom silicon just to keep up with all the transcoding.

https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastructure/

At the time that article was released (April 2021), users were uploading over 500 hours of video per minute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wish your pain was gone

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