Hello first time post here, so sorry for any mistakes I might do.

I'm on an unlimited plan with WISE 2MB connection, and as we all know unlimited plans are usually crap. My average speed is around 60Kb/s except around the hours between 4 and 6 am where the speed "magically" improves. I have however been able to find work arrounds for my issues like:

1 when watching YouTube videos I convert them on the fly to an obscure format, which "magically" allows me to watch the video at around 200Kb/s

2 download accelerators work fine as long as parallel downloads are stopped and the download format isn't a .exe file

But any way here's my question:

Why on earth can I watch videos from pornhub no problem 720p but YouTube acts like a little biatch on anything above 144p?

I've tried free vpns, proxies, blocking cdn IP addresses ( which do absolutely nothing for the speed for some reason) and still no result.

Anyone who can shed a little light my way?
It's because it's "cached", some ISPs can cache whatever the subscribers download or whatever website they enter to into an internal memory, so if another subscriber wants to download the same thing, you take the file from that internal memory on a really fast speed rather than the normal speed you have.
Or maybe in this case, WISE are slowing down connections to youtube.
BetterGoogleIt wroteIt's because it's "cached", some ISPs can cache whatever the subscribers download or whatever website they enter to into an internal memory, so if another subscriber wants to download the same thing, you take the file from that internal memory on a really fast speed rather than the normal speed you have.
Or maybe in this case, WISE are slowing down connections to youtube.
Thanks for the reply, WISE is slowing down everything in general, most websites and video sites like YouTube. But like I said Porn websites and obscure gaming sites are not throttled at all which is strange no? Is there anything in your experience I can do to fix this issue or bypass their throttling with a specific program?


BTW I forgot to mention downloading from the play store is abysmal, but getting apks from ApkMirror is like lightning.
So you want to browse YouTube without using YouTube. I remember I used to use a few websites to bypass country-restrictions, but I forgot what they were. I'm not sure that will help as it might just be acting as a simply proxy, but you can look them up and give it a try. I'm not sure about how fast it will be when using a proxy, though.
try to browse youtube without https
Hybrid wrotetry to browse youtube without https
I tried looking for such a service online, but I couldn't find any active links from within the last year, most articles that talk about it are from 2013 before. You have any links?
tt400 wroteSo you want to browse YouTube without using YouTube. I remember I used to use a few websites to bypass country-restrictions, but I forgot what they were. I'm not sure that will help as it might just be acting as a simply proxy, but you can look them up and give it a try. I'm not sure about how fast it will be when using a proxy, though.
Yeah the unblocking YouTube proxy sites ive tried haven't been very helpful. Those are usually for unlocking YouTube


It's not that I want to watch YouTube through a different service, its that video sites besides YouTube load smooth as silk. I can FAP to a 720p video about lesbian's but a 240p video about bunnies on YouTube is a no no.


I want to be able to understand why this is so that I can exploit this and get the internet I'm paying for without having to resort to converting videos in order to watch videos in 360p. If I convert the videos to .3gp format I can then stream them on vlc pretty well, but this gets annoying after awhile and is not viable option for everyone in my family.


Very frustrating :(
Probably a Mia Khalifa's video, and it's cached....
Some things come to my mind:
1 - Pornub's 720 and youtube's 720 are not necessarily the same. Compression, sound quality, etc.
2 - Large areas of uniform flesh are easy to compress. For lesbians, multiply that by two.
3 - Like someone else mentioned, frustrated Lebanese are keeping the cache alive :)

Anyway pun aside (I'm sure every one had a try), maybe your ISP throttled youtube (or whatever protocol youtube is using), but not porn sites, because someone there is too embarrased to ask for porn sites to be slowed down, or because there are too many of them, or they use them themselves, or God know why. In this case a VPN or some kind of tunnel can help.

When in Lebanon I tend to have the opposite problem, and it is pretty annoying.

You can also try watching videos on dailymotion or Vimeo.
I am subscribed to the 2M45 wise plan and youtubes 480p videos are usually always watchable, 720p works well also if I let it buffer a few seconds before starting the video, 1080p usually buffers but if you let it load a little it's watchable.

So my opinion is that if you used a vpn it should eliminate all throttle possibilities.. I remember a few months ago https browsing was slow but they got it fixed but still with vpn everything throttled used to work like torrents so I would suggest you to recheck with a VPN and I would make sure first it's not device specific like a problem in your browser, otherwise just download those youtube videos at 2M speed and watch them
mayorse wrote It's not that I want to watch YouTube through a different service, its that video sites besides YouTube load smooth as silk. I can FAP to a 720p video about lesbian's but a 240p video about bunnies on YouTube is a no no.
Maybe it's the porn you watch. Try watching something a little more interesting.
rolf wroteSome things come to my mind:
1 - Pornub's 720 and youtube's 720 are not necessarily the same. Compression, sound quality, etc.
2 - Large areas of uniform flesh are easy to compress. For lesbians, multiply that by two.
3 - Like someone else mentioned, frustrated Lebanese are keeping the cache alive :)

You can also try watching videos on dailymotion or Vimeo.
Yeah, daily motion videos load fine as well even without all that wonderful flesh :P but their video selection is far more limited then YouTube.

Thanks for the reply
Truepeace wroteSo my opinion is that if you used a vpn it should eliminate all throttle possibilities.. I remember a few months ago https browsing was slow but they got it fixed but still with vpn everything throttled used to work like torrents so I would suggest you to recheck with a VPN and I would make sure first it's not device specific like a problem in your browser, otherwise just download those youtube videos at 2M speed and watch them
Thanks for the reply. I'll try VPN programs again, I've tried GhostVpn as well as Hot spot shield, installing them then restarting the computer but the speed is still the same. Any recommendations for vpn programs or settings i should change in the programs would be great.

I would love to only download the videos but my parents are pretty old and I can't teach them how to convert then download stuff cause A their to impatient B the stuff they watch are from LBC drama shows which aren't hosted on YouTube so downloading them won't be as simple for me.
tt400 wrote
mayorse wrote It's not that I want to watch YouTube through a different service, its that video sites besides YouTube load smooth as silk. I can FAP to a 720p video about lesbian's but a 240p video about bunnies on YouTube is a no no.
Maybe it's the porn you watch. Try watching something a little more interesting.
Ha-ha believe me I do, but I found it funny how contradictory the two are, almost everything is throttled but Porn gets the green light :P
I use hotspot shield for torrenting, and I used Hide my IP for accessing a us website and it was fast. Hotspot Shield and Zenmate were slow, you can try them though.
Truepeace wroteI use hotspot shield for torrenting, and I used Hide my IP for accessing a us website and it was fast. Hotspot Shield and Zenmate were slow, you can try them though.
Thank you very much your help and insight, I'll update you on my findings ASAP.
6 days later
UPDATE:

After allot of trial and error, I'm sorry to say the suggestions have produced no new results. On the contrary I realized the exploits I have previously mentioned no longer apply when using a VPN or a proxy.

Could they be automatically throttling all connections the instant they see its being tunneled, is that even possible? Was reading setting up an SSH Tunnel may do the trick but the setup seems to be a nightmare and impossible x_x
They can throttle anything based on protocol or dst, src address and port, large isp like wise use a qos system (quality of service) masalan they give facebook 512kb 100% real internet but pornhub and other porn sites they give it only20% real internet and 80% cached contents. Those are examples not real numbers