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Alright so I'm not even kidding when I say this but for some odd reason YouTube buffers at night, I have no idea why but it only started a few weeks ago, it never buffers during the day or anything it's just a night when it does it.

 

 

EDIT: Alright so it only buffers in Firefox but not Chrome (didn't test IE)

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Alright so I'm not even kidding when I say this but for some odd reason YouTube buffers at night, I have no idea why but it only started a few weeks ago, it never buffers during the day or anything it's just a night when it does it.

 

 

EDIT: Alright so it only buffers in Firefox but not Chrome (didn't test IE)

I'm having the same issue. I have to wait for it the video to buffer. :(

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I'm having the same issue. I have to wait for it the video to buffer. :(

Yea, it's such a obscure bug.

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most isps experience heavy load at night, and for me at least Comcast seems to specifically throttle youtube and some other popular sites. 

I live in a very small town though with ~2000 people, and the town next to mine is only ~14,000 people, I wouldnt think that it would hurt the speeds that much, thats not a lot of people, especially when you count out how many people have different ISP's than mine.

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I live in a very small town though with ~2000 people, and the town next to mine is only ~14,000 people, I wouldnt think that it would hurt the speeds that much, thats not a lot of people, especially when you count out how many people have different ISP's than mine.

well they always oversell residential lines, meaning they count on non-constant load. 

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Alright so I'm not even kidding when I say this but for some odd reason YouTube buffers at night, I have no idea why but it only started a few weeks ago, it never buffers during the day or anything it's just a night when it does it.

 

 

EDIT: Alright so it only buffers in Firefox but not Chrome (didn't test IE)

I've been having browser based youtube issues for a while. 

Some of the time chrome will buffer but IE will be fine, and visa versa. 

It's annoying, but not much can be done about it at this point. 

 

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