I was attempting to determine the lowest-time-cost path to "happy wife". My candidate paths are "kill v6", "sixxs", "routinghouse" and I was looking for anecdotes that might lead me to test one over another.
Yes there are better operational approaches if I ditch the "happy wife" && low-cost (time) concerns, but it certainly seems that the problem of reliable high-quality video streams is more complex than a traceroute/tcpdump are going to indicate. Where is the wireshark button my Chromecast? What is the PoP I am using for this particular video versus another? Is this request filled from Google Global Cache or not? I am choosing not to tilt at these particular windmills. There are not Amazon reviews for tunnel brokers, so yes, I come to an operator mailing list. On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Jeroen Massar <jer...@massar.ch> wrote: > On 2014-08-20 16:55, Ryan Shea wrote: > > Just one man's experience, but my YouTube performance over my Hurricane > > Electric tunnel has been strikingly poor lately > > Instead of saying that something is "poor", you might want to do the > operational/technical[1] thing and include things like: > - IPv4 traceroute from your endpoint to the PoP you are using > - IPv6 traceroute over the tunnel to the destination that is "poor" > > And depending on things tcpdump/wireshark might be an amazing tool too. > > There are apparently some US ISPs who are throttling protocol-41 btw, > which might actually be what your problem is. > > Only data will tell though. > > I am fairly sure that bringing problems with HE up to them directly or > at least on their forums instead of a mailinglist for Network > Operators[1] will get you better results... > > > - so much so that I was > > thinking of squashing v6 in my house entirely. Looking for your > > experiences/thoughts on whether cutting over to SixXS or Routinghouse > could > > be a path to 1080p cat video bliss instead. > > For SixXS it all depends on which ISP network you are located in and > what PoP you select. If you are west-coast, at the moment, you will > likely not get the best performance as there are no PoPs in that area > and thus you would have to cut through the country. > > > But more importantly: did you consider asking your ISP for native IPv6? > > Greets, > Jeroen > > > [1] https://www.nanog.org/list > >
