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Hi all. Just so you guys are aware of it, we enjoy a peering arrangement with YouTube and Google, as well as Akamai and Limelight content distribution networks and Microsoft. We get this as a benefit of membership with ACORN-NS, the Atlantic Organization of Research Networks. What this means in practice is that there are no limits on the traffic between us and these providers; all traffic between us and them is like it were running on a local network. In other words the best possible network connection we could have. Literally we are linked by fibre optics from the Chase Building to the Killam Library basement where these services are distributed locally. With reference to the recent user letter about the slowness of YouTube, this user makes excellent connections to Chebucto (50K+) so conditions are as good as it is possible to make them from our side of things. Another issue could be about the resolution of the videos, where higher rez vids are significantly larger file sizes and require a newer video card and processor to render without glitching even when the complete file has been downloaded. Until very recently onboard video cards built-in to the motherboard were not powerful enough to render 720p or 1080p without pauses or audio de-synching. It's been my experience that the playback program is important on low-end boxes too. I've found that VLC offers the best video playback on low-end machines due to their superior codecs.
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