Online video buffer time problem

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Hi, for a while now I've been experiencing very slow buffer times when trying to watch online videos. It's getting to point now where I just want it fixed as its annoying the bejesus out of me.

Basically when trying to watch youtube or other videos online the buffer creeps up and the video gets to a point when its stopping and starting all the time. I have to leave it until the video has completely buffered before I can watch it smoothly which sometimes take 5 or 10 minutes. I'm sure you can understand my frustration !

I have a 10 meg Virgin connection which tests out just shy of 10 meg on speedtest.net and am using the latest mozilla firefox browser, although it does it with IE and Chrome too. I'm using Win 7 home premium 32 bit if that makes any difference.

I have tried running anti-virus (Avira) and anti malware (spybot and adaware) all of which come back clean.

Anyone have any idea what could be the problem as I am completely stumped.

Cheers in advance.
 
Have you tried this on another machine on the same router/connection?

I dont have another machine to test it out and It's my only connection. I'm assuming the connection is fine if speedtest is giving me ten megs consistently.
 
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