Having trouble watching videos. I'm new to IPad. Pls help?

Hi. I'm new to IPad...just bought from Best Buy 1 month ago. Used to PC. I cannot watch videos without them stopping every few seconds. If I hit the start/pause or stop, it will start again. Would someone help me please? I'm not close to the Best Buy store & impossible to get them on phone!
Thank you so much.

Videos are heavy files. While the internet speed may look o.k for websites, and other light weight things videos tend to need faster internet.
It may just need buffering, also iPad in youtube at least defaults to the highest possible quality for the videos, which also means the videos get very very heavy. 1080p video can very very large. in the hundreds of megabytes.
Think over MB for a short 5 minute video at 1080p. If your internet is not fast enough it will stop to buffer. It will also resume playing once its buffered enough.
If you pause it at the beginning and let it buffer a bit, it may be able to last a bit longer.
Most videos have a load indicator in the position bar. Its usually a lighter gray to show its loading the video, keep an eye on that and make sure there's enough of the gray bar so it won{t catch up while playing it.

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