Reply To: Embedded backstager videos loading slow

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Yup vimeo really sucks in the EU but even still they are the least worst creator friendly vid hosting service, seems to force at least 3 requests to west coast usa, and they seem to rely on akamai for peering, with a pretty lackluster variable streaming rate setup in the client, then again google have really invested heavily in getting direct links to the edge of most major isp’s so comparing any vid performance to youtube is unfair, as they have paid to be artificially close to the source of requests…

Unfortunately it is entirely out of our hands, as vimeo are a 3rd party black box service to us, basically upload and hope their network is up to snuff…, you can get some surprising results if you repeat your tests on 3/4g though, much better performance, i suspect one of the peering deals they have will be with telefonica or similar and or active caching on the mobile networks edge comes into play.

Even more annoying try it with a vpn terminating west coast usa, its pretty much perfect in terms of stream flow, even taking into account the vpn over head and routing weirdness you end up forcing on them lol….