{"video_id":"IXF6JV2fE2E","title":"Your High Speed Internet Might Still Suck (Peering Issues)","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":276,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":7.04,"text":"i've ever had the experience where even though it looked like there was no issues on your end for your internet","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.799,"end_s":11.92,"text":"connection lots of websites are loading extremely slowly or not at all or maybe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.0,"end_s":14.92,"text":"you've even had the opportunity to see the wonders of youtube loading videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.84,"end_s":19.68,"text":"and 144p despite the fact that you have","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.6,"end_s":23.119,"text":"fiber well if you've tried all the usual steps to fix your connection like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.119,"end_s":26.56,"text":"rebooting your 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future","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"i've ever had the experience where even though it looked like there was no issues on your end for your internet connection lots of websites are loading extremely slowly or not at all or maybe you've even had the opportunity to see the wonders of youtube loading videos and 144p despite the fact that you have fiber well if you've tried all the usual steps to fix your connection like rebooting your router adjusting your dns settings or switching to a wired Ethernet connection and still nothing helps not even calling your isp chances are there's a peering issue to blame but what the heck does that mean all right so because the internet is not one centralized network it has to work through different physical networks connecting to each other through some sort of agreement the largest networks called tier one networks connect to each other using something called settlement free peering what this means is that they agree to carry each other's data without an expectation of payment strictly speaking peering technically refers to no cost arrangements such as these for the purposes of this video we're using a broader definition where peering refers to any agreement between networks to carry data including paid agreements anyhow these big tier 1 networks can reach the entire internet without having to pay for the privilege for example our american viewers will recognize big names such as att centurylink and sprint which have tier 1 networks however most isps are tier 2 or tier 3 networks a tier 2 network can do some free peering with other networks but has to pay money or purchase transit to tier 1 services to access portions of the internet while a tier 3 network only purchases transit and then sells the internet access they bought to consumers typically all this behind the scenes buying and selling results in a seamless experience for the user whether you're trying to view a website hosted halfway around the world or just watch another fine episode of techwiki but sometimes a poorly conceived peering agreement can really gum up the works you see peering agreements usually include an understanding about how much bandwidth each network can use if one network's data ends up hitting a bandwidth cap or overwhelming the second network throttling and slowdowns can result and that's something you're gonna experience this famously happened with netflix when cogent a tier one network that carried lots of netflix traffic had a dispute with comcast since netflix traffic takes up a surprisingly large chunk of internet bandwidth its data ended up throttled when it hit comcast servers before it was able to make its way to viewers at home dear to sheer volume and because it puts so much load on comcast comcast asked cogent to start paying for access to its network as previously the two were connected by a settlement free peering when cogent said lol no comcast fired back by essentially allowing all that traffic at the interconnection point to bottleneck and guess what customers got choppy video until the two companies decided to bury the hatchet but in the meantime netflix went straight to comcast for a better deal and paid for the privilege of hooking up its servers directly to comcast's network obviating some of the need to buy transit from tier 1 cogent there have actually been a number of instances of peering shenanigans over the years whether it be from one side's infrastructure not being up to scratch or business disputes such as the netflix example we just discussed but if you're faced with slowdowns at home because of peering problems you can try using a vpn and if that doesn't work well there's not much else you can do other than wait for the problem to get resolved or just switch isps because you know what we all have plenty of those to choose from right save us elon big thanks to brilliant for sponsoring this video brilliant is a website and an app that makes learning accessible and fun there's no grades there's no long lectures there's no strict time limits they've got over 60 courses on everything from astronomy to programming to python with one of the best courses that we suggest being the cryptocurrency course you can learn the history of how we went from traditional fiat currencies to crypto how cryptocurrencies are created and just what the heck a blockchain even is using brilliant you can master subjects instead of just memorizing the answers and one of the best parts of brilliant is that they have an active community of over 8 million learners and educators today the first 200 people to head to brilliant.com techcookie will get 20 off at annual premium subscriptions so check it out thanks for watching guys if you like this video give us a thumbs up hit subscribe and be sure to hit us up in the comments section with your suggestion for topics that we should cover in the future"}