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