YouTube unbearably slow; everything else fine.
Hi there,
I've been experiencing increasingly severe YouTube buffering times. Speed tests suggest I'm getting the 5mbps I should be, but according to YouTube's stats, my average rate over the last month was 2.39 mbps. Even that is heavily weighted by the more decent download speeds I had a few weeks ago. At this point, I cannot even play a video in 240p without long buffering.
Every other website works fine; I can stream HD videos from Netflix and other sources without issue.
Also, this occurs with every computer I use in the house.
Please help.
You Tube is the third most popular website. They get a LOT of traffic. So their servers get bogged down at peak times. They know it. Which is why they give tips on dealing with low speed and suggest not viewing in HD. The only solution is to deal with the buffering or visit in off hours. In my experience during early morning and late night hours (11pm) I don't have a problem with any video. During the day and evening a lot of videos don't play well.
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