2014-12-20, 21:28
So I just tried it again and now it's working fine. Either Youtube fixed it on their end, or there was a problem with my ISP, or my bouncing my chromebox somehow did it. Unclear. Anyway, happy it works.
Edit: Looks like it was my ISP. My super fast 300Mbps download time-warner cable "Maxx". Sigh.
Edit2: Actually I was wrong. The actual problem was when I logged on to my work VPN, it replaced the DNS server, which broke youtube's caching and made it dog-slow. The fix was to add "Script INTERNAL_IP4_DNS="" /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script" to my vpnc conf file.
Ahh, yes indeed. Surely 2015 will be the year of the Linux desktop.
Edit: Looks like it was my ISP. My super fast 300Mbps download time-warner cable "Maxx". Sigh.
Edit2: Actually I was wrong. The actual problem was when I logged on to my work VPN, it replaced the DNS server, which broke youtube's caching and made it dog-slow. The fix was to add "Script INTERNAL_IP4_DNS="" /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script" to my vpnc conf file.
Ahh, yes indeed. Surely 2015 will be the year of the Linux desktop.