How to speed up youtube downloads

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Youtube is incredible slow for me these days. Is there any kind of software which speeds up downloads? I've tried Speedbit Video Accelerator but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
 
Thanks for repying.

Greenlizard0 said:
Hmm..it could be your ISP throttling your downloads..
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I'm with virginmedia (cable) who don't throttle bandwidth but their routing to youtube could possibly be an issue.

ConfusedTA said:
If you're using www.youtube.com, try using uk.youtube.com instead
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Thanks but made no difference i'm afraid.

Now i'm looking into freeware that will download a long list of youtube vids and convert them into avi files overnight.
 
Marmoset said:
Now i'm looking into freeware that will download a long list of youtube vids and convert them into avi files overnight.
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Kewl. :)

So you copy and paste all the links to the YouTube vids into this app and it downloads them and converts them overnight?

Please keep us updated if you have any luck. :)
 
Marmoset said:
I'm with virginmedia (cable) who don't throttle bandwidth but their routing to youtube could possibly be an issue.
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Not 100% true, Although its not likley to affect you VM does throttle all bandwidth when you reach the on peak download cap to about 50% of normal speed depending on the service you are using.
 
MarcLister said:
Kewl. :)

So you copy and paste all the links to the YouTube vids into this app and it downloads them and converts them overnight?

Please keep us updated if you have any luck. :)
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That's the kind of think i'm looking for. Been searching and testing a few apps for the last couple of hours with no great success. Will post back here if i do though.



unknowndomain said:
Not 100% true, Although its not likley to affect you VM does throttle all bandwidth when you reach the on peak download cap to about 50% of normal speed depending on the service you are using.
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You're absolutely correct. I'm on 20Mbit and get throttled to 5Mbit for 4 hours after downloading 3Gb between 4pm and 12am. What i should have said is the kind of severe throttling that some ISPs enforce which slows certain types of downloads to an absolute crawl which is not something VM do (at present).

:)
 
bigmouse64 said:
Maybe the youtube servers are what limit your speed. ;)
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That is very likely the case. However, commonly, downloading multiple threads from a source increase the total download speed. If that is possible with an app such as speedbit (which claims to do) then that is what i'm looking for.

:)
 
please ignore. Thought i had stumbled upon a good piece of freeware but it has crashed my pc twice already!
 
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Marmoset said:
Thanks for repying.
I'm with virginmedia (cable) who don't throttle bandwidth but their routing to youtube could possibly be an issue.
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Broadband Size: M
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: M package download at least 350MB of traffic each.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 1Mb, with their upload speed set to 128Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

Even if a Broadband Size: M user has their speed temporarily traffic managed, they can still download over 1,000 music files per day.

Broadband Size: L
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: L package download at least 750MB of traffic each.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 2Mb, with their upload speed set to 192Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

Even if a Broadband: Size L user has their speed temporarily traffic managed, they can still download over 1,500 music files per day.

Broadband Size: XL
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: XL package download at least 3GB of traffic each.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 5Mb, with their upload speed set to 256Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

Even if a Broadband Size: XL user has their speed temporarily traffic managed, they can still download over 4,000 music files per day.
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Source: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html
 
After testing practically every youtube downloading software i could find, i have finally found the holy grail!

It's vdownloader. 3Mb size and freeware.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/VDownloader.shtml

Using it's built-in browser, you just browse youtube, find your videos and click on 'download' at the top. It downloads and converts the files to .avi files, giving the .avi a proper filename unlike most of the other software i have tried. It will also download and convert lots of files at the same time.
Converted 62 videos last night and it worked flawlessly.

HTH
:)
 
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