Youtube unbelievably SLOW lately??

Zonda999

I have a BT 1mb broadband connection and up to about last week, it was fine for youtube.Now though, i cant watch anything without it constantly pausing and trying to download.I'm fairly sure its not my connection because the speed is as fast as ever on any other website.Anyone else have this problem lately??Its fuppin driving me mad!!:mad:

BrokenArrows

well its either your internet is slow or youtube is having problems. nothing else is going to cause it.

Overheal

could be your net connection. 1mbit is not all that fast in fairness. you have to remember you share that with other BT customers (ask them about their Contention Rate) it may very well have to do with a few BT users in your area using Peer to Peer (P2P) filesharing.

neacy69

check you connection speed using www.speedtest.net post results here....

swingking

I thought I was the only one having problems with you tube.

It's doing the same thing for me too, so i'd say the servers are not performing well for you tube.

I have 3 mbit broadband and I'm getting a download speed of 2651 kbit/s

Don't worry mate, you're not alone

Overheal

lets test this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk

didnt have a problem with either of those but then i wouldnt:

Zonda999

Thanks for the replys so far.Its still slow unfortunately.I know, as somone said, that 1mb isnt a very fast connection but for youtube anyway, it was atleast twice as fast as it is now a couple of weeks ago.Any more views from people experiencing the same problems very welcom....

Saggitarius

Zonda999 wrote: »

Thanks for the replys so far.Its still slow unfortunately.I know, as somone said, that 1mb isnt a very fast connection but for youtube anyway, it was atleast twice as fast as it is now a couple of weeks ago.Any more views from people experiencing the same problems very welcom....

What kind of Broadband have you? Normal (wired) ADSL or WiFi? Big difference!

j0e

<a href="http://www.speedtest.net"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/302275647.png"></a&gt;
http://www.speedtest.net/result/302275647.png

i too have problems and im on bt are what are my results like? me thinks prob ****e

Saggitarius

I have wired Eircom 2MB shared and my kids are very activ and I measured this:

Saggitarius

...and here a far away place (from the map the west coast of US):

swingking

Here's my results on speedtest and in both the posted videos, it keeps starting and stopping

Saggitarius

I had a similar problem with my "3" mobile internet. On the first month was very fast and then slower then a slowest dial up (my testprogram some times can't to measured my upload speed it was so slow!)

Zonda999

Saggitarius wrote: »

What kind of Broadband have you? Normal (wired) ADSL or WiFi? Big difference!

Well the final connection is 54 mb/s wifi connected using the wireless modem BT sent me and a zyxel wireless adapter that BT also sent me.My wifi hasnt exactly been reliable lately but as long as it is connected(It sometimes disconnects randomly), the speed is fine.I have thought about repalcing the set up with 108mb/s wifi.Could this be the problem bearing in mind its finre for all other sites bar youtube??

Munya

Nope same tolerable slowness as always.

EKRIUQ

Its stopping for me on most videos's,

MunsterCycling

No problems here with youtube.

Lex_Diamonds

Fooked for me too! 3meg BT connection.

r3nu4l

Is it a problem with the ads loading on the site? Look for ads from ad.doubleclick.net loading up.

neacy69

Zonda999 wrote: »

Thanks for the replys so far.Its still slow unfortunately.I know, as somone said, that 1mb isnt a very fast connection but for youtube anyway, it was atleast twice as fast as it is now a couple of weeks ago.Any more views from people experiencing the same problems very welcom....

post your speedtest results.......
I count 3 people on here with youtube issues one has a slow connection, one has a decent connection speed and yourself so if you post your results we can get a better idea...........

Jonathan

The connection is not the problem. The problem lies with either:

1. ISP throttling youtube
2. the Youtube server that is streaming to you

Try reloading youtube a few times and try to get a different server streaming to you. The server name should be in the status bar in firefox, dunno about IE.

Zonda999

Here are my results.Theyre fine.



I only have IE-7 at the moment but i will also try firefox and safari if that can fix the problem.Thanks for the help

Standard Toaster

2 little factoids

Youtube's bandwidth costs are estimated at approximately $1 million a day.
It is estimated that in 2007, YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000

Is Googlevideo the same? (Not sure if they use the same servers?)

Saggitarius

Zonda999 wrote: »

Well the final connection is 54 mb/s wifi connected using the wireless modem BT sent me and a zyxel wireless adapter that BT also sent me.My wifi hasnt exactly been reliable lately but as long as it is connected(It sometimes disconnects randomly), the speed is fine.I have thought about repalcing the set up with 108mb/s wifi.Could this be the problem bearing in mind its finre for all other sites bar youtube??

In house I'm also have Wifi and running on speed 54Mb/s as you seen my measured values enough fast.
Many times some websites the provider -in this case the BT- slow down selectively what they want. For this reason also not running on full speed the P-P (filesharing) websites all of case!

The Edge have right as part 'cos not only tha Youtube need to pay for bandwidth as well as the internet provider. Also every supplier pay after the bandwidth not for the amount of up- and downloaded data! It's a very big different!

swingking

You tube works perfectly for me now. I contacted my isp who told me to change the mtu settings on my modem to a lower number (1400) and this seems to have solved the problem.

Edit:

Forget what I just said there, it's even worse now:mad:

brian_rbk

try this ..

VideoAccelerator

It seems to have made a big difference for me.

Brian

Conor108

I had problems with slowness for 2-3 days there but tis grand now

positron

Slow here too - youtube videos pauses all the time..! Basic BT broadband and wifi at home.

swingking

brian_rbk wrote: »

try this ..

VideoAccelerator

It seems to have made a big difference for me.

Brian

Does anyone know if there is a mac version of that software

Zonda999

Thanks for that software.It accelerates the videos alright but it is a bit harder to find exactly what your looking for.Glad to see i'm not the only one having problems:rolleyes:, positron.It must be a BT thing.Its still unbelievably slow if i just go about trying to watch a video normally.I'm yet to try another browser but i think i'll try it and see what happens.I'm fairly pesimistic at this stage, though

butts

I have BT 2meg connection and also have problems. I notice that sometimes if I open up a second video in a new browser window, it starts loading much faster than the first one, even though its a similar length.

Zonda999

Thank you so much.I just tried that there and immediate success, it downloads at the speed i used to get a few weeks ago.I'm guessing it has something to do with using diferent youtube servers.Thanks again, i hope this lasts

positron

That VideoAccelerator did help the day I installed it - its still there on the status bar declaring its 'ready...' but isn't speeding up or buffering or anything..! Strange!

calex71

for opera users , there is a bug in version 9.51 that might be causing slowness on youtube i hear it's been fixed on the pre release of 9.52 but havent tried it yet , but i also hear that if your usuing a custom urlfilter.ini file to block major advert sites it has been known to cause some issues aswell. At least this is what i found to be the problem in my case as i tried
this in a barebones install of Firefox 3 and had no issues what so ever on the same compter and wireless connection on BT 3mb connection

muckwarrior

I'm also on BT and regularly find you tube crawling. The bastards must be throttling it!

squirrel1970

if u live in the country ur csever could be slowing down ur mbs to get more constant coverage or if ur wireless u could be piggybacked apparently u can buy the decoder for web encription online for bout 50 or 70 dollars so if u were being piggybacked ur connection would be far slower

muckwarrior

squirrel1970 wrote: »

if u live in the country ur csever could be slowing down ur mbs to get more constant coverage or if ur wireless u could be piggybacked apparently u can buy the decoder for web encription online for bout 50 or 70 dollars so if u were being piggybacked ur connection would be far slower

As others have stated, my connection to everything else is just fine. Problem is only with youtube.

Overheal

muckwarrior wrote: »

I'm also on BT and regularly find you tube crawling. The bastards must be throttling it!

youre in luck then, Switzerland to the rescue!

http://gizmodo.com/5032527/open-source-switzerland-network-testing-tool-catches-isp-throttlers-in-the-act

You can also test whether your ISP is throttling your internet with this test:

http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/bttest.php

Zonda999

I cant seem to get on to youtube at all today.It just says "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".I'm finding it fairly odd because the small illustrations that some sites have on firefox 3 and IE7 are still there.Can anyone get onto youtube??

Ian Beale

Zonda999 wrote: »

I cant seem to get on to youtube at all today.It just says "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".I'm finding it fairly odd because the small illustrations that some sites have on firefox 3 and IE7 are still there.Can anyone get onto youtube??

Yup its working fine.
Also use this if you ever need to know if a website doesn't just work for you or for everyone
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Zonda999

Ian Beale wrote: »

Yup its working fine.
Also use this if you ever need to know if a website doesn't just work for you or for everyone
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

It tells me its just me:mad::mad::mad:.I'm bettin this is BT throttling youtube!!!!You're not on bt broadband are you Ian??Gettin fairly p***ed off at this stage to be fair

muckwarrior

Overheal wrote: »

youre in luck then, Switzerland to the rescue!

http://gizmodo.com/5032527/open-source-switzerland-network-testing-tool-catches-isp-throttlers-in-the-act

You can also test whether your ISP is throttling your internet with this test:

http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/bttest.php

My reading of that is that it will only tell you if your P2P traffic is throttled. Don't see how it could tell you whether access to a specific site is being interfered with. My torrent speed is usually fine.

Overheal

"it isn't limited to BitTorrent or any other specific application."

still an alpha-phase piece of software however.

giveth

I'm on BT 2MB Broadband and Youtube is often very slow. One video can be ok and another is slow, so it does seem to be certain youtube servers.

Having a lot of trouble with BT of late - thinking of switching from them...

Overheal

So everyone in this thread is a BT complaintiff?

swingking

nope I'm with talk-talk broadband 3mb and it's running really really slow

:mad:

Zonda999

Hey hey, i can get onto it again.Its odd these days.Some videos are fine but others are as slow as christmas.Better than them all slow anyway..

Anti

Im with BT youtube working fine for me

Zonda999

Youtube simply will NOT load for me today.Even when i use vispeedbit, they simply will not load at all ever.Gettin seriously pissed off now.What the f**k is wrong with my connection??Totally fin for ALL other sites.I tried http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ again and it informs me youtube .ie is up as normal.Would a call to BT do any good i wonder???

Jonathan

Zonda999 wrote: »

Would a call to BT do any good i wonder???

No harm to try I suppose. Let us know how you get on.

Sherifu

It's terrible.