YouTube videos are loading INSANELY slow now for me :/

[TopWargamer]

T4R

I have no idea why this is happening, because it never did before. I have an awesome internet connection too (75 down, 35 up). I reset my router today to see if that would help, and it didn't. I tried watching a video in Chrome (my main browser), Firefox, and Opera, nothing changed among them.

And usually I can I can load 1080p YouTube videos without the video ever buffering or for me to wait for it to load. So now I try loading videos in 240p...and it still is loading extremely slow! Like it will take a good 2 hours or so for a video to load up all the (trust me, I tested the time). So....this is REALLY strange.

Does anybody have any idea what's going on and how I can fix it?

[Guest]

Is this only through youtube.com that you have the issue or embedded videos too?

[the_devil52]

Have you used up your plans quota?

[LapX]

You're firewall maybe ? Have you changed it recently ? Try monitoring your traffic, maybe you got a virus or something.

[TopWargamer]

Is this only through youtube.com that you have the issue or embedded videos too?

I don't really come across any embedded videos, so I can't really say on that part.

[TopWargamer]

Have you used up your plans quota?

I'm with Verizon, and they don't have a quota.

[TopWargamer]

You're firewall maybe ? Have you changed it recently ? Try monitoring your traffic, maybe you got a virus or something.

No, I've made no firewall changes recently, and I don't have any viruses, just scanned using Malwarebytes.

[fishymamba]

Same thing happening with my youtube videos lately. Same plan as yours, Fios 75/35. ISP Throttling maybe? Only thing I can come up with.

[PTemplar]

I get this problem sometimes too. Try clearing your internet browser's cache. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's something else.

[HunterTheHusky]

Ive heard something about ISP's blocking some IP's that helped YouTube and other streaming services. This in turn slows down the speed at which you recieve the data. Just a something I read somewhere though and I have not gone much into it, just know that it has been happening to a lot of people.

[CapnCrunch]

Post a screenshot of your youtube speed results:

http://www.youtube.com/my_speed

[codytappen]

Try right clicking I video and changing the memory settings to give java as much memory as it wants.. Not sure why, but it occasionally solves a similar issue for my friends.

[mvitkun]

same thing happening to me.

25 down 5 up .comcast.

try using this kind of proxy thing.

http://www.proxfree.com/youtube-proxy.php

just input the url of the youtube video and it should load fine if the isp is the issue.

for me every now and again videos plain and simple don't buffer,and other times they buffer instantly on 1080p.and putting the url into this makes the video load instantly even when youtube otherwise isn't bufferin,to change the quality of the video look under the video,there will be hyperlinks that say 240p,360p,480p,720p,1080p and just click on which one you want.

my speedtest.net results say that my speeds are the same when YT works and when it doesn't,so idk what it actually is.

tried different browsers,different computers,and apparently some of my friends are having this issue as well with other isps like quest and centurylink.

[TopWargamer]

same thing happening to me.

25 down 5 up .comcast.

try using this kind of proxy thing.

http://www.proxfree.com/youtube-proxy.php

just input the url of the youtube video and it should load fine if the isp is the issue.

for me every now and again videos plain and simple don't buffer,and other times they buffer instantly on 1080p.and putting the url into this makes the video load instantly even when youtube otherwise isn't bufferin,to change the quality of the video look under the video,there will be hyperlinks that say 240p,360p,480p,720p,1080p and just click on which one you want.

my speedtest.net results say that my speeds are the same when YT works and when it doesn't,so idk what it actually is.

tried different browsers,different computers,and apparently some of my friends are having this issue as well with other isps like quest and centurylink.

That linked worked! Thanks!

[TopWargamer]

Post a screenshot of your youtube speed results:

http://www.youtube.com/my_speed

http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/TopWargamer/media/YouTubespeeds_zps6ff1f3bd.png.html

[mvitkun]

same thing happening to me.

25 down 5 up .comcast.

try using this kind of proxy thing.

http://www.proxfree.com/youtube-proxy.php

just input the url of the youtube video and it should load fine if the isp is the issue.

for me every now and again videos plain and simple don't buffer,and other times they buffer instantly on 1080p.and putting the url into this makes the video load instantly even when youtube otherwise isn't bufferin,to change the quality of the video look under the video,there will be hyperlinks that say 240p,360p,480p,720p,1080p and just click on which one you want.

my speedtest.net results say that my speeds are the same when YT works and when it doesn't,so idk what it actually is.

tried different browsers,different computers,and apparently some of my friends are having this issue as well with other isps like quest and centurylink.

glad it worked,but that most likely means that your ISP is the issue,so you're kinda screwed ;)

[bradscoolio]

Call up your ISP and abuse them for a few hours and maybe, just maybe, they'll do something about it :P

*edit: I was joking, they won't help you at all ^__^

[mvitkun]

Call up your ISP and abuse them for a few hours and maybe, just maybe, they'll do something about it :P

*edit: I was joking, they won't help you at all ^__^

I saw a post about how somebody found a way to prevent it using a firewall

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/13kmvd/have_time_warner_internet_but_can_barely_stream/

but I don't really get what they mean,and I don't care enough about it to look at it more seriously than a quick once over glance.

[bradscoolio]

Luckily this young nice man over a teksyndicate made a tutorial on blocking the cache server that your ISP shits on you with :D

Source: http://teksyndicate.com/forum/general-discussion/how-speed-youtube-buffering-blocking-cache/128686

[mvitkun]

Luckily this young nice man over a teksyndicate made a tutorial on blocking the cache server that your ISP shits on you with :D

Source: http://teksyndicate.com/forum/general-discussion/how-speed-youtube-buffering-blocking-cache/128686

thanks

[LapX]

You're firewall maybe ? Have you changed it recently ? Try monitoring your traffic, maybe you got a virus or something.

I do remember that it was doing the same thing to me though, now it's gone and I don't know why, sorry.