Has Youtube been slower over the last few months?

DAnDan · 22 Jan 2011 at 22:39

It's been a bit weird for mer over the last few days. Some videos would load the entire clip in seconds, and some would require buffering time (360p on 20mb).

Gammawolf · 22 Jan 2011 at 22:46

Not noticed anything my self, everything buffers in < 1 second

doofer · 22 Jan 2011 at 22:54

The video below will show you how to fix this problem:

LordSplodge · 22 Jan 2011 at 23:41

AceTK said:
Who is your ISP?

Only SKY and BE Internet dont shape traffic at peak times.

I think not. All ISPs traffic shape now to various degrees some being much worse than others. You are confusing that with throttling and unless it has changed VM don't throttle their top package.

Biohazard · 22 Jan 2011 at 23:42

occasionally get buffering and sometimes no shows.

other channels/vids are perfect.

seems like a two tier level service

Nash · 22 Jan 2011 at 23:46

doofer said:
The video below will show you how to fix this problem:

lol

I feel the slowness too. In my experience, the oldest, most random, most least viewed videos are the slowest. The popular videos always load fast for me.

Deific · 23 Jan 2011 at 00:51

Been ridiculously slow this entire week for me. It can just about stream a 360p video when it's being good without buffering. Anything higher and I have to let it sit and buffer for a while. Irritating to say the least.

Antihero · 23 Jan 2011 at 00:58

I've noticed it a lot over the last few days but I thought that might be down to the Ipad app.

iKettles · 23 Jan 2011 at 01:14

I'm sure it's got something to do with the servers videos are on being in different locations so I'd assume transfer speeds are going to vary between videos depending on distance?

deko · 23 Jan 2011 at 01:19

I'm on Be and have had intermittent problems with Youtube for a while now.

Pawnless Endgame · 23 Jan 2011 at 01:41

The irony. The 'fix-it' video has been on its swirly buffer status for the last 10 minutes :-)

(excuse my large font... eyesight)

Narj · 23 Jan 2011 at 01:42

Last few days for me has been poo but sometimes I find I can get around stalling by changing the resolution (eg: up to 720p) so I assume that different quality versions of the same video must be hosted on different servers? :confused:

buchtis · 23 Jan 2011 at 01:55

Yes super slow though sometimes super fast, like the red bar on a 5 minute video fills up in around 2-3 seconds (TalkTalk 8MB). Might be messing about with the servers.

AceTK · 23 Jan 2011 at 02:22

magick said:
talktalk and it's been slow since 5pm. and what do you mean by 'dont shape traffic at peak times'?

http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs#United_Kingdom

ISP's now treat youtube/online video streams as bulk transfers along with P2P now so expect same class designation and shaping. Talk Talk and BT use deep packet inspection too. Google phorm and ul see privacy is also a concern on that ISP.

Rainmaker · 23 Jan 2011 at 03:12

Monserrat said:
The irony. The 'fix-it' video has been on its swirly buffer status for the last 10 minutes (excuse my large font... eyesight)

And yes, YouTube has been intermittently rubbish here for the last couple of months, too. It doesn't seem time-dependent either; as above its seems more channel related. *shrug*

Pawnless Endgame · 23 Jan 2011 at 12:51

Half and half :-)

I thought it was a real vid buffering, then I checked again this morning. Realised it was just a GIF. Oops!

hux · 23 Jan 2011 at 14:08

On sky here, been bad for a while now.

I personally think it's google doing the throttling, been slower since they took over.

Other video sites are fine so it's not the isp shaping.

AceTK · 23 Jan 2011 at 14:24

hux said:
On sky here, been bad for a while now.

I personally think it's google doing the throttling, been slower since they took over.

Other video sites are fine so it's not the isp shaping.

You had any fair usage letter yet? I aint and i do 120gb per month

hux · 23 Jan 2011 at 14:27

On the max package you shouldn't, though they say it's 240gb.

.Ox. · 23 Jan 2011 at 15:10

Sometimes on my phone its pretty slow/not working at all, but generally at home its alright.