Slow YouTube streaming videos

Why is my iPad 2 slow at streaming YouTube videos? When I use my iPod touch under the same wi-fi network, it seems that it is faster than the iPad 2.

I have the same problem, my ipad3 was really fast, now it takes 3 days to download one episode of whale wars (40 min programme) and the internet connection is on and off. My Thinkpad is on the same WiFi network and is fast as ever (fiber optic).
Really bad, I almost binned the thing last night, it is now a very expensive photo frame. I have not used Apple products since 1996 and I thoiught I would have a go with the new Ipad. Clunky and unreliable as ever.

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I am running Leopard 10.5.3 with no problems on a 1GHz G4 iMac with 1 gig of RAM. However, streaming video is virtually unwatchable: it is always slow and jerky. My internet connection is a steady 6.5 mbps down.
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Thanks. . .

Streaming video from over the internet isn't going to tax your video card.
It's going to be either the broadband connection, the wireless, or the CPU struggling with an advanced video codec like H264.
The MDD starts to struggle at about 1500kbps video/audio in H264 decompression. If you have any other processes running (like Spotlight Indexing in OSX 10.4 and 10.5 - which is a real killer just after a fresh install) then you're even more severely limited, perhaps 1300kbps.
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Don't know your broadband connection, but ISPs here in the UK use "traffic shaping", cutting back on our 8Mbps throughput to little more than 2Mbps, sometime less during busy periods (evenings, weekends, if you live in a primarily residential area).
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Hi Guys.
Does anyone have a problem with Youtube streaming?
Since day one 9 time out of 10 my appletv has trouble streaming from youtube where it will stop and start as it catchers up then it will just stop all together.
Both with wireless and ethernet, even worse wireless.
Youtube streams fine on the other macs in the house wireless. Very strange.

I have a Linksys Router and the only thing I see is a Multicast filtering under security settings, which by the way is under security settings. I don't see nothing about bit rates.
Can you help me? Because I have the same problem with loading YouTube videos. It stops in the middle and sometimes the play don't even starts, after the blue line in the bottom has started and stoped after a while.

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I do not live close to an Apple store and the Mac store in my town only had an 11" floor model.
I know that the 1.4GHz 11" will not play youtube 1080p videos smoothly.
Does anyone know if the 1.6GHz 11" or the 1.86GHz 13" or the 2.1GHz 13" can play 1080p youtube videos. The video I have been trying to play is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9vAOzYz-Qs&fmt=37
I want to buy a macbook air but I want it to play 1080p youtube videos. I hope one of them can.

Looks pretty darn good on my 11.6"1.4 2GB system. I have the 128 GB storage option. I tested it on Safari and Chrome on OSX, and IE, Safari and Chrome on Windows 7. A few points I would make though:
1. Looks best output to a 1080P display via HDMI (no scaling impact)
2. I am running Flash v10.1 r85
3. I have found videos that show an ever so slight frame drop(very watchable), notably the nVidia Pure Video 1080p Test.
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Hi all,
I'm not exactly sure where I should be posting this so apologises if people think it shouldn't be here !
My problem is with watching video's on Youtube in either Firefox or Safari.
Basically I, mostly, get the sound OK but the picture play back is extremely jerky and many seconds behind the sound.
I appreciate that this is a very generic problem and there could be any number of reasons why this is happening but I would've thought that my ageing Mac should still be able to cope with this !
Are there any basic things that I need to ensure are set correctly within OSX, Safari or Firefox to at least give me a fighting chance at getting the video clips to run smoothly.
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There are Uninstallers for both of the Adobe players involved; these utilities
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someone recomened deleting a folder, which solved the problem.
What would u suggest for Snow Leopard?
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My neighbor gave me an eMac for my 9 yr old daughter to use. I upgraded it to OS 10.4.11 and it works fine except for watching streaming videos. Both Quicktime and Flash stutter in Safari, but since I've reinstalled Quicktime it works only on Firefox. I cannot watch Youtube or Yahoo Trailers on either Safari and Firefox. I've reinstalled Flash a half dozen times, including the newest version- and an earlier 9.0.277.0 version--but the video still stutters. I've tried resetting the Pram and fixed permissions as well.
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Issues with Internet connection speeds aside, I am afraid that the age and speed of your eMac is what is causing your stuttering issues when streaming video and YouTube. Your eMac is just not up to the challenge. Plus, YouTube uses video codecs that are designed to run on more recent, modern computers.
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