Slow downloading of video

Question

I sometimes have problems with slow downloading of video. I have DSL, and the speed and quality usually chek out on speed testing. If I am watching a Youtube video it is annoying to have it go to buffering. I think someone wrote a song about that.
glaber

Answer 1

You tube and trailers are not only different qualities (hence datarates) as you are aware but they also come from different sources which helps explain why you have trouble with one but not the other.
One thing to note is that when the blue line has fully extended across the screen representing loading, it is not the whole of the file that has loaded, not sure how much, it might be something like 30 seconds worth, once it's played that 30(?) seconds worth the tv expects to have downloaded more of the file and hence to be able to play interrupted. This explains why it stutters even though you thought it had downloaded everything, this is important since it rules a problem with the tv itself.
Do you have any issues streaming video to the tv from itunes, this might indicate an issue within your network, a full strength signal does not mean that you can't be experiencing interference. Your own videos on itunes are likely (but not necessarily) higher quality than the trailers and if you don't have an issue streaming them, then the problem could well lie with your internet connection.
If the problem is on the internet and if as you say you can start to watch trailers immediately on your laptop it would appear it's not your internet connection speed that's a problem although you don't say what speed it is, however there are other things on the internet side of things such as proxy servers etc that could cause a problem.
With all that in mind you need to try to narrow down were the problem might be before taking a more specific look at any particular area.