I was watching some videos on youtube some time ago when I realized it was pausing and buffering...and came across this URL which it seems is a local cache that youtube is locking me down to. My link is not congested...other sites and google services work fine. What could be the issue? Ping: marcus@marcus-laptop:~$ ping o-o.preferred.kdn-nbo1.v2.lscache6.c.youtube.com PING o-o.preferred.kdn-nbo1.v2.lscache6.c.youtube.com (41.84.159.19) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=257 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=231 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=237 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=311 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=12 ttl=56 time=146 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=14 ttl=56 time=276 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=16 ttl=56 time=294 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=191 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=19 ttl=56 time=240 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=20 ttl=56 time=237 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=255 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=23 ttl=56 time=258 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=25 ttl=56 time=119 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=27 ttl=56 time=331 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=28 ttl=56 time=269 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=29 ttl=56 time=244 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=30 ttl=56 time=324 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=32 ttl=56 time=261 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=33 ttl=56 time=359 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=35 ttl=56 time=197 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=36 ttl=56 time=264 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=37 ttl=56 time=222 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=38 ttl=56 time=269 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=39 ttl=56 time=270 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=40 ttl=56 time=110 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=41 ttl=56 time=228 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=44 ttl=56 time=234 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=45 ttl=56 time=335 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=46 ttl=56 time=136 ms 64 bytes from cache.google.com (41.84.159.19): icmp_seq=47 ttl=56 time=205 ms ^C --- o-o.preferred.kdn-nbo1.v2.lscache6.c.youtube.com ping statistics --- 47 packets transmitted, 30 received, 36% packet loss, time 46106ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 110.113/244.070/359.589/60.359 ms mtr (snipped out my gw address line): My traceroute [v0.75] marcus-laptop (0.0.0.0) Fri Jun 10 21:47:06 2011 Resolver: Received error response 2. (server failure)er of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. 192.168.200.0 0.0% 62 1.0 1.2 0.8 5.8 0.8 2. 172.16.0.1 0.0% 62 7.7 6.4 1.9 35.8 8.3 4. g1-0-0-25.cr01.ke-nbi.wananchi.com 0.0% 61 17.2 24.5 9.0 74.2 15.6 5. 62.8.94.254.wananchi.com 0.0% 61 27.0 18.1 6.8 49.5 7.0 6. 196.223.21.81 45.9% 61 328.3 217.8 95.2 328.3 61.5 7. ??? 8. cache.google.com 31.1% 61 116.7 243.7 65.3 432.7 78.2