YouTube Loading Slow - Throttled?

[-ism]

Hi everyone,

I have AT&T U-Verse and I am quite sure that my network is being throttled or something jacked up is going on. Whenever I watch YouTube videos they almost never load fully in 1080p. Sometimes at night it may work for a bit, but still with random loading in between.

This is the only device on the network using the internet via a Cat5e cable about 4 feet from my gigabit router and I'm getting my full speeds according to speedtest. Why is it that I can't watch a god damn YouTube video in high quality? That's almost the entire reason I upgraded my connection. I know for a fact its not the computer because it does this on all devices in the house.

You can see with the Asrock software that I am getting much higher download rate in Speedtest than in YouTube. The speedtest was recorded within 20 seconds of closing out of that YouTube video.

I can watch Netflix in 1080p with no lag at all, and I can easily skip to whatever part in the film I want without maybe a 4-5 second buffer.

Please can anyone help me :(

YouTube "Speed" - http://i.imgur.com/LmNzLCA.jpg

SpeedTest.net Speed Taken within 20 seconds of closing the YT video - http://i.imgur.com/iPv5zff.png

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Now at 3 am~

Speedtest Still relatively the same - http://i.imgur.com/NPpkY49.png

YT now way Faster - http://i.imgur.com/Qmb0BHF.jpg

Is this network throttling by AT&T?

[cnerde]

YouTube's servers are just that overloaded... I have a bit slower connection, but can watch netflix or hulu just fine, in HD. I looked at the speed of the youtube video like you did, and got nearly the same thing.. At first I thought it was my ISP (Frontier) throttling YouTube, but I looked at another forum a while ago and there where a few people with the same issue.

[Mpeterson96]

Good! so its not just me! I thought timewarner cable was screwing me over..

yeah at 12am-6am I Can stream anything I want no load times but at 4 pm I cant even stream 480..

heres my internet http://www.speedtest.net/result/2504275770.png

*sorry for the double post the forum did something weird,

[Gil]

Speedtest from right now and still can almost never load 1080p videos on youtube and a lot of times not even 720p. The servers just can't keep up with the traffic.

[Gil]

Good! so its not just me! I thought timewarner cable was screwing me over..

yeah at 12am-6am I Can stream anything I want no load times but at 4 pm I cant even stream 480..

heres my internet http://www.speedtest.net/result/2504275770.png

*sorry for the double post the forum did something weird,

somehow i had posted the same thing 5 times in a row and after i fixed it none of them went through xD

[DLM_012]

I have AT&T and a 14Mbps connection. I haven't been able to watch YouTube videos at anything at or above 240p or 320p for these past 2 or 3 days. I thought my computer was tripping out but it turns it out that this problem is happening across all of my connected devices including my desktop, laptop, and tablet. YouTube must be in need of server maintenance or upgrades or something.

[dragos]

I have the same problem from time to time and I live in Romania. The problem is the servers, not the internet.