Is P1 throttling YouTube?

Posted:  August 14, 2010   By:    7 comments   


Ok before all the P1 haters out there take out their pitchforks, we’re making it clear, we have no conclusive evidence but based on our own use of the service and from feedback we’ve been getting from other P1 users, the YouTube streaming has been choppy of late.

Everyone knows that with P1, when it’s good, its really good but when it’s crap, you can’t do jack online. But we can’t help but notice that we’re getting consistently slow streaming on YouTube when on the P1 network. It’s been happening almost all the time in the past couple of weeks.

We noticed that we had no problems whatsoever surfing almost every other sites and even downloading torrents is as smooth as butter. So is P1 throttling down YouTube streaming? It doesn’t make sense for them to, if they want to curb data hoggers and network abusers, then they should go straight for the throat and clamp down on torrent downloading.

But so far, it has been the other way around, we’ve been getting good download speeds but very bad streaming on YouTube. Anyone else going through the same thing? Comment us.

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7 Comments for Is P1 throttling YouTube?

jason

No problem here~ no need to wait buffer somemore.

    soyacincau

    Hmm…could be just us then

thejellyfarm

My reception here in JB has been gobstopping slow as a turtle carrying its lunch pail. Please P1, pull your socks up or no else is going to upgrade to your 4G site. LOL!

@azlan96

I am getting fast downloads but very slow YouTube, around 200kbps only #p1wimax …

soyacincau

We're still facing the same problems. Digging up more evidence to find out if the YouTube throttling is indeed true.

shah

p1 had a base station problem for central region..i don't know what the prob is but they say it..

fcuknajib

yup i'm having the same problem. it happens only when you exceeded your quota. You can actually see the status bar running some link under p1.com when you click on a youtube video. Definitely they have throttle down youtube streaming. I'm 100% sure. I could get a screenshot for you if you need.