Youtube app on Ios

aaronsharkey

When I go on youtube to watch a video the video wont load it just buffers until I get pissed off and go to the homes screen after waiting twenty minutes. My internet is not slow I have the same speed as always and I could watch youtube videos fine the other day. if anyone knows a possible solution it would be great

kaisersoze

First thing I would do is change your DNS.
If you are with Eircom, I've seen issues with other sites like c4 on demand and other streaming sites.
You can either change it on the router or just give yourself a static address and use 8.8.8.8 as your DNS, just for trial purposes.

aaronsharkey

kaisersoze wrote: »

First thing I would do is change your DNS.
If you are with Eircom, I've seen issues with other sites like c4 on demand and other streaming sites.
You can either change it on the router or just give yourself a static address and use 8.8.8.8 as your DNS, just for trial purposes.

Thanks but I have a sky router I usually never have this problem just happened today ill try the DNS

adox

Same problem here tonight. Never had a problem with it before.

Every other streaming site is working fine.

DubDJ

Stupid thing but you should always give it a try. Turn off router, leave it for 30 secs, turn it back on.
Also restart your iOS device. Hold down the home and power buttons together until it turns off. Then let them both go. Sometimes stuff like this can fix a problem like slow internet on certain apps for me.

adox

DubDJ wrote: »

Stupid thing but you should always give it a try. Turn off router, leave it for 30 secs, turn it back on.
Also restart your iOS device. Hold down the home and power buttons together until it turns off. Then let them both go. Sometimes stuff like this can fix a problem like slow internet on certain apps for me.

Tried that but no luck. Also uninstalled and re-installed the app but no luck.

Thought it may have been a firewall issue but Youtube working fine on my Mac.
Its a weird one.

J@yK@y

I had the same issue last night on two iPhones and two iPads all connected to a Sky Hub. It must be a Sky Broadband issue.
I have not tried today

Dades

On an aside - why the hell do YouTube not let you use the screen volume slider?

Using the hardware buttons is an absolute pain in the hole. Stupid app.

/rant

adox

Back working for me this evening. No idea what went wrong with it but alls well with the world again.

Hopefully it's corrected itself for the OP too.


Oh and yes the lack of an on screen volume control is a crime against apps.

miralize

Dades wrote: »

On an aside - why the hell do YouTube not let you use the screen volume slider?

Using the hardware buttons is an absolute pain in the hole. Stupid app.

/rant

Thats a recurring problem for me. All apps now think that its now ok to do that, Spotify, Rdio and Youtube especially

aaronsharkey

I can watch videos now but the definition will channge out of the blue it will go from 1080p to unwatchable with about 5pixels on screen any solutions? Thanks