@Alecmac007 wrote:
Interesting that you have the same problem, has it only recently happened?
I am based on Cirencester are you nearby or do you know any other people on Vodafone with a similar problem?
Spent over 1 hour with Vodaphone support to resolve but to no avail / not sure what else to try or to escalate further L
(third attempt to post this without the forum anti-spam deleting it!)
I'm in North-West Leeds. Openreach FTTC at the moment (FTTP is about 100yds away - so near, yet so far!)
The problem first started after we returned from a week's holiday, so it looks like something changed during W/C 22nd August as it was problematic from 26th August.
Unfortunately, I'm out of the country for a few days now so can't raise with support myself, but if it's still doing it when I get back, I'll raise a support ticket then. If you have a reference number I can share, feel free to message it to me so I can link them up.
Looking at the Chrome debug trace, I can see cancelled requests to <url1> (which also times out in the browser) but after 10-20 seconds, the youtube client then makes what I assume is a retry request to <url2> which works ok (and return a successful 403 in the browser too). As speculated elsewhere, I suspect there is some sort of peering link broken causing intermittent, rather than terminal failures of requests between Voda and Google.
(URLs removed because Voda's daft board deletes the post if I include it - available here: https://pastebin.com/W1Zn8zPU)
I'm interested to see what other people with this problem get from the above URLs as this might help give a very specific problem to the Voda network team to resolve. Interestingly, the former URL doesn't work on VPN either, suggesting that there might be some Vodafone-specific infrastructure at Google that isn't very happy, and Voda customers are being explicitly directed to faulty infrastructure. I'm not familiar with how Vodafone manage their direct peering with Google, so this is speculation for me - perhaps others can answer this.
