Speed Confusion - Streaming Slow, Upload Fast, Torrent Fast

[airvpnuser3000 0]

Hi All,

 

Sorry for asking another slow speed question but from what I have found it appears many folks ask about slow torrent speed but mine is OK it is just streaming that slow. Upload looks good also.

 

When I stream YouTube etc via VPN its slow and choppy which is not good considering my line speed. I am UK based and have tried a number of UK servers at different times. Once tried a US TV service via a US server and it was not watchable.

 

Results via http://www.speedtest.net/

Without VPN   DL: 60mb    UL 18mb

WithVPN         DL: 0.88mb UL 11mb

 

Torrent: DL: 2mb - 3mb (I am happy with that as I am just using a public tracker)

 

 

I did a check to make sure torrent was using VPN and all looked good so any ideas where to start with the slow streaming/DL. I am new to the world of VPN and just use the airvpn client.

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

 

 

 

[OpenSourcerer 1441]

When I stream YouTube etc via VPN its slow and choppy which is not good considering my line speed

 

Switch to HTML5 video. I experienced a performance boost of about 500%. It cannot be called stream then since the video is downloaded into the browser cache but it may solve problems with YouTube.

By the way: Same thing with other sites using Flash content. It's horrible. I then deactivated Flash completely to force Firefox using HTML5. It works on most sites.

 

Did you try other ports? Try out 53 and 80, please. Maybe connecting through TCP could help you, too.