Youtube Loading Too Slow - Need Help

This happens to me once in a while. Youtube loads extremely slow for about two days, then it fixes itself.

This case, however, it’s been over a week. My internet connection is fine. Steady 4mbps connection (speedtest.net). All pages load perfectly fine, images load fast, everything. The Youtube page loads fast aswell, but can’t say the same about the videos. A 1minute video can take up to 5min to completely load up. I also noticed other video sites like Metacafe take alot to load aswell.

Anyways, was just wondering if you had any ideas. I removed and re-installed Flash and Java (just in case) and still nothing. I’ve reset my router, disconnected my ethernet cable, everything I could think of and nothing.

Also, I tried using Chrome and IE. Same problem. I use FF. Tried clearing browing history aswell. Nothing. Also tried Youtube on my dad’s computer and sister’s computer and it works perfectly with theirs.

Any ideas? Help me out.

try using another browser

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“Also, I tried using Chrome and IE. Same problem. I use FF”

i use chrome always

thanks to Chaos Theory for the sig.

Pete da Beast wrote: “Also, I tried using Chrome and IE. Same problem. I use FF”

Use Mozilla Firefox.

Re-install windows is you have to.

This answer thread is full of fail.

Changing browser won’t effect youtube load speeds, and nor will reinstalling windows (!).

Youtube has been painfully slow for a couple of days for me too, and I have experienced it a few of times before.

My guess would be Youtube every so often throttle bandwidth in some areas for some reason, maybe when they are doing maintenance. Or I spose it could be the ISP using traffic shaping to limit youtube downloads, but that seems less likely.

Luckily, it always seem to come back up to speed after not too long. Fingers crossed.

Nothing you can do about it. Chances are it has to do with their servers and the amount of people connected to their servers.

Well, it’s always likely that if youtube is slow but no other sites are, then it’s their bandwidth (it’s really the most popular video site ever). Although, I haven’t had any problems.

However, it could be your computer’s performance too, especially since they’ve been upping their video quality. If your computer is bogged by cookies, spyware, or hasn’t been cleaned up a bit or turned off for awhile, it could be affecting performance of video playback.

I mean, I run a 8mb/s connection (I better be at least, it’s what I’m paying for) and I have no issues whatsoever today or yesterday on a 54mb/s wireless connection from my router, and I’ve watched HD videos with no pausing for buffering or loading.

I always recommend CCleaner and Spybot S&D.

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Update: It’s a problem with ALL videos. Every single video I try to watch is very slow. Streaming or buffering. Metacafe, Youtube, Veoh... every single site.

Pete da Beast wrote: Update: It’s a problem with ALL videos. Every single video I try to watch is very slow. Streaming or buffering. Metacafe, Youtube, Veoh... every single site.

Then it’s probably something bogging down either your bandwidth or you system’s resources.

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Pete da Beast wrote: This happens to me once in a while. Youtube loads extremely slow for about two days, then it fixes itself.

This case, however, it’s been over a week. My internet connection is fine. Steady 4mbps connection (speedtest.net). All pages load perfectly fine, images load fast, everything. The Youtube page loads fast aswell, but can’t say the same about the videos. A 1minute video can take up to 5min to completely load up. I also noticed other video sites like Metacafe take alot to load aswell.

Anyways, was just wondering if you had any ideas. I removed and re-installed Flash and Java (just in case) and still nothing. I’ve reset my router, disconnected my ethernet cable, everything I could think of and nothing.

Also, I tried using Chrome and IE. Same problem. I use FF. Tried clearing browing history aswell. Nothing. Also tried Youtube on my dad’s computer and sister’s computer and it works perfectly with theirs.

Any ideas? Help me out.

Irratating thing happens with Dailymotion when I’m
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I also got a problem, i dont know if it’s the internet connection my computer or the youtube!! Before the video loads slow, it sometimes happen and sometimes not I notive that video loads slow because of the intenet, then after that it’s fast then it’s slow for many weeks. I really don’t know whats going on, my internet connection looks fine or maybe the server because my server is v21.cache.google and i think thats a bad server. And now my upload videos take 5 hours even this vid is 2 mins and its high quality! So i really hate it.. Pls if someone could help me whats going on, tell me
This has been happening for many weeks.

Geass wrote:

Pete da Beast wrote: “Also, I tried using Chrome and IE. Same problem. I use FF”

Use Mozilla Firefox.

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