However, to many, YouTube has been pretty unpleasant recently due to the buffering and streaming issues and based on my packet sniffers, it's a Advertising and Peering problem that is basically throwing a spanner into the smooth works that is affecting only some cluster of users.
As we have more than one link here, MyRepublic Gamer 150 and Pure 100Mbps package plus Starhub Cable and even YES 4G (don't ask where we are), we find that the network is not clogged up but rather the limits within the CDN delivery network where the CDN pull the cache within the Metro-E Connect aka Cross Connect is jammed up.
Think of it this way
**YOUTUBE CDN (MyR)-------metro--->>>Main Peer (ix) ------>> Master Region----->> USA
Where the CDN is actually sitting within the MyRepublic Cage in the datacenter, the Metro-E cross connect to other data centers within Singapore and since YouTube is the Content Provider, they have to pay for the Cage Hosting, plus the Cross Connect (maybe up to 10Gbe) and goes to their Tier 1 which via Tata/HE/TiNet/Level3 as the preferred carriers.
And for your info, Google pays for the connection to MyRepublic Rack, though I doubt MyRepublic get paid at all.
So even Singtel/Starhub/M1/VQ have to get thru this providers.
Guess where they will go first in IPv4? Tata and NTT in Serangoon North Ave 5 rather than landing in Equinix SG1 where everyone is mostly at.
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Going forward, you might now understand where Google is cutting corners just as how in the US where Cross Connect Fees are huge money to be made. Thus why Singtel is always expensive somehow.