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by weazl 4524 days ago
> We pick the shortest, most direct route.

Eh, no. I'm sure they try but more often than not my YouTube is streaming from Amsterdam according to http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping, I live in Stockholm and have a 250 MBit connection. So instead of blazing fast speeds I get buffering like I'm on a modem.

I've found no way of reporting this issue, my ISP did not know either. I worked around the issue myself with hundreds of lines like this "74.125.163.38 r1---sn-5hn7ym76.googlevideo.com r1.sn-5hn7ym76.googlevideo.com" in my router hosts file. This finally made videos buffer pretty much instantly.