I've been trying to fix a situation that has constantly baffled me over the years.YouTube performance between work and at home varies majorly. Now, you might say it is because at work, my work station is part of a fibre fed network and if I run a speed test I get 98Mb/s down and 89Mb/s up. Compared to home where I get a maximum sync of 1.8Mb/s...At work, YouTube says the video is buffering at massive 61300kbps. At home I get about 122kbps. It almost renders YouTube unusable unless I use a download manager to manage multiple streams. What I am confused about is, why can a single stream work at 61Mb/s at work but not 1.5Mb/s at home?Is it because fibre is handled differently and a single stream is more capable? I didn't think this was the case, because at my folks house who have a 23Mb ADSL 2+ line at home, YouTube manages to stream a 1080p video at 18Mb/s.So again, it has left me wondering, why my computer (which is not a slouch by the way) and my browser can't seem to stream a video at line speed. I don't mind waiting 10 minutes for a download to watch later, its just bugging me as to what is actually happening here. I initially put it down to caching and the video being unpopular. But it does not matter if I'm watching a video with 34 million veiws or 34.I've been trying to find a browser that allows buffering on multiple streams, but have yet to find one.Any information would be nice :)
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