Google launches YouTube Video Quality Report page for Canadians - Polidicks

[url]http://googlecanada.blogspot.ca/2014/01/youtube-launches-new-video-quality.html[/url] [quote=Google]So you're just about to figure out what the Fox says when all of a sudden, it pops up on your screen: that dreaded rebuffering circle. We've all seen it and we've all felt the incredible frustration that comes with it. No one wants to wait around for their favourite video to load or settle for watching a low quality version instead - especially in the Great White North, where Canadians are known for their love of online video and benefit from strong broadband access in many parts of the country. That's why today, for the first time on YouTube and starting right here in Canada, we're giving you the information to figure out exactly why the service you love performs the way it does. It's called the Video Quality Report and it sheds light on exactly what kind of performance your Internet Service Provider delivers and what other factors play a role.[/quote] [B][url]http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/[/url][/B] Here's Shaw in Winnipeg: [img]http://i.imgur.com/eL7Jd1A.png[/img]

I use Shaw and live in Winnipeg as well, but it can be kind of terrible once in awhile at Youtube. This might be useful.

Kind of neat [img]http://i.imgur.com/inATaLC.png[/img] Is google going to come out with Google fiber and blow everyone away?

It'll buffer and play fine on any quality until I try and skip forward, then it will sit for 5 minutes "buffering". Nice try YouTube but fix your shit.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vXxvIC4.png[/IMG] Uhh... thanks, I guess, Google?

why does everything say I live in melfort what even is a melfort [img]http://i.imgur.com/g9vR5Dl.png[/img] none of these other ISPs are "in my area" either

What kind of graph is that? I've seen it only once or twice in a geography class, and it was never explained how to read it.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;43624598]What kind of graph is that? I've seen it only once or twice in a geography class, and it was never explained how to read it.[/QUOTE] I think it's called an Area Chart You just read it like you would a line chart, the bottom is filled a solid colour to better represent the quantities at a quick glance. (The Y axis in this case isn't labelled because it's just representing a percentage)

[QUOTE=Zeke129;43624545]why does everything say I live in melfort what even is a melfort[/QUOTE] Melfort, SK, is a community about 100km northeast of Saskatoon. Likely, your IP block is marked in a geolocation database as being assigned to there (probably with SaskTel), even if it's since been shuffled around elsewhere. Half the time, I get guessed as either being from Victoria or Vancouver, or... Ontario, sometimes. I never understand that one. :v:

"Results from your location are not yet available".

Really weird that you guys can't play HD video during the night — do your ISPs throttle all traffic during night? They don't do that here, in fact with my ISP the graph would be a complete mirror image, because their peering infrastructure is so undersized.

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;43625428]Really weird that you guys can't play HD video during the night — do your ISPs throttle all traffic during night? They don't do that here, in fact with my ISP the graph would be a complete mirror image, because their peering infrastructure is so undersized.[/QUOTE] the dark blue in relation to the light blue and grey show the percentage of streamers doing so in HD, I believe the total height of the curve represents traffic volume the charts posted so far seem to show that there are fewer people using youtube at night but a higher percentage of those doing so are viewing in HD [editline]21st January 2014[/editline] for all I know I'm completely misreading the chart though

[QUOTE=Zeke129;43625476]the dark blue in relation to the light blue and grey show the percentage of streamers doing so in HD, I believe the total height of the curve represents traffic volume the charts posted so far seem to show that there are fewer people using youtube at night but a higher percentage of those doing so are viewing in HD [editline]21st January 2014[/editline] for all I know I'm completely misreading the chart though[/QUOTE] ah yes, that makes a lot more sense

[IMG]http://puu.sh/6tJrU.png[/IMG] This ISP is seriously the worst. +$70 per month for ~200 kb/s download speeds and a 50gb/month bandwidth cap. there's no other options either, fucking monopoly garbage. MTS or whatever seriously laid fiber cables straight through my neighbourhood but we're not getting it. its going to a small town about 15 minutes away from where I am.

[QUOTE=FelixDragon;43627132][IMG]http://puu.sh/6tJrU.png[/IMG] This ISP is seriously the worst. +$70 per month for ~200 kb/s download speeds and a 50gb/month bandwidth cap. there's no other options either, fucking monopoly garbage. MTS or whatever seriously laid fiber cables straight through my neighbourhood but we're not getting it. its going to a small town about 15 minutes away from where I am.[/QUOTE] MTS has internet service available in Stonewall, I just checked. There's also a press release saying that Stonewall has fibre-to-the-home access.

[QUOTE=FelixDragon;43627132][/IMG] This ISP is seriously the worst. +$70 per month for ~200 kb/s download speeds and a 50gb/month bandwidth cap. there's no other options either, fucking monopoly garbage. MTS or whatever seriously laid fiber cables straight through my neighbourhood but we're not getting it. its going to a small town about 15 minutes away from where I am.[/QUOTE] Be glad you're not in an extremely rural area, most people that live outside of a town only have access through satellite internet. Latencies of over a full second and prices that make $70 a month look cheap. A locally ran satellite ISP here charges $80 for their cheapest pack, 12Mb/s, but a download cap of 10GB. Pay $100 and get 15GB, pay $130 and get 25GB.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;43627181]MTS has internet service available in Stonewall, I just checked. There's also a press release saying that Stonewall has fibre-to-the-home access.[/QUOTE] I'm not in stonewall, I'm in a rural area outside of stonewall that no other ISP's service. The small town I mentioned is stonewall, they're getting fiber and MTS laid the cables from winnipeg or wherever, through my neighbourhood, to stonewall.