Youtube is slow has hell

WatchTower · 17 Aug 2011 at 01:25

I've noticed videos on Youtube for the last few days to a week have really been taking annoyingly long to buff. I get 10mb out of the 20 sky said I should be getting so my BB is fast enough. No matter what browser I've tried it makes no difference e.g Safari, Firefox and Google Crome.

So all I can think it must be the large amount of traffic Youtube gets. Is anyone else having suffering with slow buffering videos on Youtube lately?

TNGL · 17 Aug 2011 at 01:40

I've had this problem on and off; I've found that by changing the quality from 360p to 720p e.g, will actually make it buffer faster, sometimes this isn't the case, but it works around 45% of the time for me.

KIA · 17 Aug 2011 at 11:13

No issues here (Zen FTTC). What does the YT speed test report? You can right-click on a video and click show video info. It will show you the throughput.

waso_dude · 17 Aug 2011 at 11:29

I have found it depends on what video you are watching.

I'm on VM 50mb and sometimes can just load and watch straight away 1080p ones, sometimes is painfull. But it appears the big channels appear to be fine. Its hte small ones clearly on reduced bandwidth