How to fix youtube on Virginmedia by blocking cache proxy

[supercity]

I mean to cause no dis-respect to virginmedia... They are good in 95% of ways (Like Free usenet server) but youtube.... not great

Virginmedia use a cache proxy for youtube which simply doesnt work. This guide for Windows & Mac will block virgn media's proxy and force all streaming to be done via youtube directly. It requires a few lines to be entered into a command prompt or terminal and can easily be un-done if required.

For Windows, Start > Type "cmd" in the search > Right click cmd.exe and run as administrator.
Copy and paste the following:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="STOPCACHINGYOUTUBE" dir=in action=block remoteip=173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16,62.252.0.0/16 enable=yes

For Mac, Open a terminal and copy/paste the following:

sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 173.194.55.0/24 in
sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 206.111.0.0/16 in
sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 62.252.0.0/16 in

To remove on windows: netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="STOPCACHINGYOUTUBE"
To remove on mac: sudo ipfw delete X

Any Replies / Feedback / Other solutions would be much appreciated.

I also posted this here: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5...ix-youtube-and-make-it-watchable/td-p/1885698

 

[InsaneNutter]

Could be a nice little tip you have there, i shall test it out. I generally have no problems to be fair. My only issue on Virgin with YouTube is when switching to 1080p video, a lot of the time the video will either never load, or do so extremely slowly.

 

[supercity]

Could be a nice little tip you have there, i shall test it out. I generally have no problems to be fair. My only issue on Virgin with YouTube is when switching to 1080p video, a lot of the time the video will either never load, or do so extremely slowly.

For me, 240p, 360p, 480p and 720p all took 30+seconds to load.... whereas 1080p had no issues.

Without the cache ip blocking, using https:// and then adding some /?radom_query=strings to the end of the URL helped