Slow loading videos on iPad

Videos on my iPad2 are almost impossible to watch because of the excessive buffering and slow download speeds. I don't have problems on any other device on my home wifi network. The issue is the same with embedded videos or the You Tube app that came on the iPad.
Any thoughts on what to do?

The tip about clearing the YouTube cookies was right on the money! This works in FF6 as well - good call - thanks!

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I have a captivate course that has a 25 minute video as the bulk of the course (followed by a quiz)
When uploaded as a MP4 (about 300 mb), it takes about 10 minutes for the video to start playing.. which is unacepptable!
I tried cutting up the video at logical points till I had 8 videos (15 - 30 mbs average) on 8 consecutive slides; preloader was set to 10%.. i figured the first video would take about a minute to load but the rest should pre-load... but NO, the project stops at each video and loads for 2-3 minutes... still not acceptable!
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We have created several courses now which rely heavily on videos. Each course has a video which is about an hour long followed by a quiz.
To make this happen, we took several steps.
First , we found a video hosting site which lets us do video streaming using ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate). This lets the video start playing within a few seconds of the webpage being presented. You can put a video file on a standard web server, but it will only do "Progressive" downloading where almost the entire video must be downloaded before it will start playing. You will have to pay some money for this type of Video Hosting site (the "big dogs" of video hosting are Brightcove.com and Ooyala.com). Once you upload your video to them, they re-encode it to the correct formats that it needs to play to the various devices. They also give you the HTML to put on your web page so the video plays back correctly and it knows how much data to "feed" the device which is playing the video.
Next we broke up our video into Chapter or parts which last between 5 and ten minutes. We didn't want the student to get to minute 58 of a 60 minute video, cancel out and then have to watch the entire 60 minutes again the next time they started the course.
We then took the HTML that we got from our video provider and loaded it onto some web pages which we serve up on our servers. We created a different web page for each video chapter.
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We just published our 2nd course using this technique and the end-users really seem to like it.

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How to Fix a Slow iPad
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iPad running slow? How to speed up a slow iPad
http://appletoolbox.com/2012/07/ipad-running-slow-how-to-speed-up-a-slow-ipad/
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Hello Lcw2610,
I would recommend deleting the affected movie from your iPad, and redownloading the movie.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5772
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
If the issue persists, please do report the issue to the folks in our iTunes Store.
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Find the email receipt for your purchase.
Click Report a Problem under the app that is having the issue.
When prompted, enter the Apple ID and password you used to purchase the item, then click Report a Problem.
Click Report a Problem next to the item you are having an issue with.
From the Choose Problem dropdown menu, choose the appropriate issue.
Follow the onscreen instructions and—if prompted—type a description of the problem into the text field.
Click Submit to have your issue reviewed.
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBooks Store purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1933
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(A) Try reset iPad
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Resetting your device
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