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So is speedtest.net. I wonder how they're related (if at all)

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190,000 people running a speed test at the same time.

Just a guess.

Sounds plausible, my first guess when youtube went down was that my connection was messed up

So mine both restored working at the same exact second. speedtest and youtube. Just saying...

Oh I’ve had my internet troubles fixed several times by going to that domain. Saw one guy write a script to ping it every 15 minutes.

Now to be fair, When in a meeting, I’ve al had to track down the kids and all devises that could possibly access YouTube.

After a really bad hour of Zoom; I leaned that you can watch YouTube on the switch. Clever kids.

I locked away a 10 year kindle just out of principe for that one.

Most routers support some form of qos

You can firewall their devices. I used to do that to my dad's cloud-based cameras back when I was in highschool. He never figured it out. Always assumed it was the ISP's fault.

You may want to invest in an IQrouter or an equivalent DIY, though if you DIY and your issue is wifi congestion you'll find that only applying fq_codel to the modem side won't help with the wifi side.

It looks like it's a CDN issue, which might affect many things using GCP for large files.

The Play Store also seems to be having problems downloading APKs. CDN issues sounds pretty likely.

Speedtest and youtube restored for me at the exact same second. I had the windows open side-by-side. Not my area of expertise but I believe you now

If I made a speed test I'd probably include streaming videos from the common sites.

Maybe speedtest.net downloads a YouTube video to measure your speed /s

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