YouTube becoming a nightmare for anyone else?

Tea_Bag

for the past few weeks youtube has been getting worse and worse for me. its not buffering anymore at all. all i get is the first 4 seconds of the clip and then the dredded circle, which lasts far longer than my pacience, so i reload the page/skip forward a bit/everything and nothing works anymore. odd thing is that some videos work fine, and load almost instintaniously, well enough that i dont have to wait for a buffer. 720p and 1080p never load properly.

anyone else getting this problem?

im on UPC's 20mb package, and noone else is on the internet currently. (im using wireless. this problem affects all laptops and a macbook pro in the house, but it has no effect on eg imdb.com trailers and vimeo etc.

ive also tested with safari/opera/IE/firefox/chrome and nothing changes.

is there a VPN provider that lets you test it, even for a few minutes, to see if im not being throttled at my end?
DL speeds and torrents work fine.

Spacedog

i feel your pain.

i notised lately that when you full sceen a youtube, it drops the existing cache and starts loading video again, that pisses me all the way off.

Tea_Bag

yeah thats because it ups the resolution to 480p from 360/240. annoying.

Brian

You can change that in your playback settings. Also if you start playing the video first before fullscreening it I don't think it ups to 480.

yuloni

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Trevor451

Same with me. Some youtube videos just refuse to load and I have to refresh the page a couple of times to get them to start buffering :mad:. I can watch videos on other sites fine though so it must be a problem with youtube

Jumpy

On Smart here and getting the same thing.
Everything else is fast, but Youtube is always buffering.

Lord Spence

same problem here, its a complete nightmare even on iphone, I watched the liverpool vs utd game today on xbox and not a single bit of biuffering it was excellent. I'm also on 20mbs upc

yuloni

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frostfrosty

yes Im also having problems in the last week or two. I thought it might be Firefox but I found a way round it.

If you go to the Poster's channel and watch the video from there , that works for me.

SWK

Is your Adobe Flash Player up to date, I'm not a techie but that's my attempt at being helpful. Don't get me started on Broadband providers, have been on O2 for around a year. Does anyone else find the 15GB download limit impossible to stay within. Especially when it's being used by more than one person. Have had bills in and around the 100 euro mark because the 2c per MB penalty is so harsh!

questionmark?

And heres me thinking it was just my laptop or IPS that was the problem. It just seems to be youtube when i thinjt about it

Xzen

Same problems here, I've tested it in Cork, on UPC, across the country with 3 mobile and in Amsterdam (Vodafone mobile and XS4ALL DSL). All on different PC and Laptops and even different OSs (win7, Debian, Ubuntu, win XP) It's definetly a Youtube problem.
I just noticed they do HTML5 now which seem a bit faster, you can opt-in for that at http://www.youtube.com/html5
Make sure you use Firefox or chrome.

Hank Scorpio

Same problems here, used to be able to stream full hd videos no problem, isnt a bandwidth problem either, very frustrating

JonathanAnon

I dont understand what you mean.. do you mean across ALL providers or just on your provider? My youtube (on 3 mobile broadband) has slowed down a lot all the same though..

Sponge Bob

I have issues on eircom if I go full screen, I suspect eircom have a misconfigured transparent cache somewhere on their network

prioryc

same issue here youtube is yousless atm

Xzen

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I dont understand what you mean.. do you mean across ALL providers or just on your provider? My youtube (on 3 mobile broadband) has slowed down a lot all the same though..

For me , it's across a load of different providers and not just in Ireland. Thus it's some routing problem exclusive to Europe, or more likely somethings up with Youtube.

(Wonder ifs it been attacked at all, something to do with the whole Egypt, Libya & China close-down of their countries networks? )

Brian

Sponge Bob wrote: »

I have issues on eircom if I go full screen, I suspect eircom have a misconfigured transparent cache somewhere on their network

what kind of issues?

bigpaddy2004

I have noticed issues too in the past 2 days and we get our connectivity via e-net.
It starts to load, plays then stops and doesnt come back most of the time.

Sponge Bob

bigpaddy2004 wrote: »

It starts to load, plays then stops and doesnt come back most of the time.

Precisely those issues. It could well be Youtube themselves making a balls of propogating to service provider caches or simply making a balls of everything:)

Anyway, no full screen for me nowadays. Seems Ok in small screen mode.

bigpaddy2004

I dont even change the screen size and I still have the same issue.
Maybe they have gone over their DL limit with their providers and have been throttled back!!

Sponge Bob

Test with this classic starring our Taoiseach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mJ_7SqKxGI

If you go full screen you need to scroll back and press play, hmmmmm.

bigpaddy2004

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Test with this classic starring our Taoiseach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mJ_7SqKxGI

If you go full screen you need to scroll back and press play, hmmmmm.

Ye seen that last night, it works fine for me, by the time I had clicked on the full screen the damn thing was fully loaded up!

dog-man-star

Same problem for me on Youtube using UPC.
Am tempted to fire a letter off to Youtube but not sure who or where would be the correct contact in there.

Nollog

For folks what has the problem when they goes fullscreen, if you's with chromium try this extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kaielpkecabnggniojjhghggjedkecfj
You can set what resolution it auto-loads with if you use flash, that should stop it needing to start caching again.
It also does more.

prioryc

may have found a temp fix and it does seem to work

http://www.youtube.com/html5

scroll to the bottom of the page and join ...as i say works for me and a friend i sent it to said the same ...

Antar Bolaeisk

Issues here as well on Vodafone 3Mbit broadband, most videos take an age to load in even on the lowest settings, that's if they even load at all. No problems with any other video streaming service, just youtube.

Also, I tried opting in to the html5 version prioryc but haven't noticed and difference, thanks anyway for the suggestion.

laughter189

I have Eircom landline wireless broadband and youtube plays all the time with no interuptions