On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 04:36:50PM -0500, Dan White wrote: > We're experiencing very poor quality with You Tube, and it appears we're > subject to a bad entry within a geolocation database somewhere. > > When we attempt to view videos, the contact comes back to us from IPs like: > > 208.117.226.21 (traceroute's through Frankfurt) > 173.194.50.47 > 74.125.100.29 > > All of those IPs are >125ms away from us (67.217.144.0/20, and > 216.14.144.0/20).
I had a similar issue, but it was mainly only over IPv6. According to someone I spoke to at Google, bumping up the MTU might help (and did help for me). I don't remember my previous MTU (I think it was 1280), but once I bumped it up to 1480 or so, my packets stopped getting routed to Europe (from NY) and worked properly. Maybe a similar issue could be with their IPv4 routers? Try increasing the MTU.
