Youtube videos take forever to load

I mean a really long time, I used to be able to ply videos just fine, with no waiting to buffer or anything, but lately I have to pause for like five or ten minutes to get a video to load. I ran a speedtest and my speeds are normal according to that.


This happens on all the computers on my network. I also tried to reset my modem and router but nothing improved.
 

bigrich0086

Active Member
its not you. youtubes servers can only handle soo much bandwidth with the billions of ppl watching videos a day. its a waiting list and you get the speed thats available.
 

FairDoos

Active Member
I mean a really long time, I used to be able to ply videos just fine, with no waiting to buffer or anything, but lately I have to pause for like five or ten minutes to get a video to load. I ran a speedtest and my speeds are normal according to that.


This happens on all the computers on my network. I also tried to reset my modem and router but nothing improved.

Tried Clearling your Cookies & Cache etc?

I recommend CCleaner and/or Glary Utilities
 

PabloTeK

Active Member
It *might* be the ISP throttling traffic to YouTube because of the demands streaming video puts on the network. If it is this then there's not a lot you can do sadly...
 
Yeah I was actually thinking it might be my ISP. Oh well, I'm moving in a few short weeks so I guess I can deal with it :D
 

Concordedly

New Member
As I recall, when I was in telemarketing sales for cable, I remember that we really played on the whole YouTube experience... I sold for Comcast, Charter, Patriot, and a few other smaller companies. However, as that was a main selling point, companies are constantly finding ways to screw over the end users. Bandwidth throttling is consistent in cable companies for YouTube, P2P, BitTorrent, etc. DSL is worse though, I promise you that. The local DSL company throttled bandwidth for BitTorrent so bad that I could only d/l at about 5.8 kb/s (All other download speeds were between 256-512 kb/s) It was just the torrents.

Streaming video is a gift but also very unreliable these days IMHO. -shrugs-
 
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