Why is Youtube loading slow for me lately?

Question

I have never had a problem with YouTube before. Usually videos will load faster than they play. But for some reason they have been loading extremely slow for the last few days. I'm talking like 8 minutes for a 3 minute video. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I'm not having speed issues with any other website.

Answer 1

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Several times each day, YouTube shuts down a few of their

servers to update stuff. Be patient if YouTube is slow, stuck

or mangled. Transmissions from YouTube to your computer

are done in multiple tiny packets of data and flash at a time.

That's why sometimes you may get any of these scenarios:

bits and pieces of text/thumbnails in weird places; sluggish

loading/buffering; the spinning circle going on forever; or the

player being blank. This problem could fix itself within a few

hours or by the next day.

If your YouTube continues to behave slow, stuck or strange,

it's very possible that your directories of "temporary internet

files" and RAM (sometimes known as "cache") are close to

the maximum and just cannot take anymore, the end result

being any of the above scenarios or videos that: A) come to

a complete freeze; B) start/stop/start/stop in a choppy way;

or C) never even make it onto your screen.

"Temporary internet files" are tiny bits of webpages that get

permanently put on your hard-drive. They will remain forever

on your computer, gradually plugging it up like hair stuck in

a sink drain, until you finally get rid of them -- or "clear your

cache" of "temporary internet files", "cookies", and "history".

Then reboot.

Note 1: if you've got Google Web Accelerator, or something

similar to it,...dump it, burn it, trash it, disable it, uninstall it;

-- do everything you can to get rid of it. Not only does GWA

conflict with and ruin YouTube, using "Don't Accelerate This

Website" won't help you whatsoever.

Note 2: longer-running videos need "Flash" and "Shockwave"

in order to play smoothly. You don't need anything else.

Note 3: a strange fix that once worked for me was changing

the URL from "www.youtube.com" to just "youtube.com" (or

you could even try "ca.youtube.com").

Note 4: depending on how you first set up your YT account,

your personal "video playblack quality" (or "VPQ") could be

set to "dynamically" or "fast", thus making YouTube videos

play at higher quality. This in turn eats up lots of bandwidth,

memory and "cache". If you are "signed in" on YouTube as

you're reading this, you can verify your VPQ from right here

within Yahoo!Answers by clicking my link below, which will

bring you directly to "YOUR VERY OWN" playback setting:

http://www.youtube.com/account#playback/quality

Otherwise, after "signing in", click the 4th black option that

will be on the left side, called "Playback Setup".

Answer 2

I'm having a similar problem. I'm in central PA and have verizon DSL. Everything else is fairly quick (including other video sites), but Youtube videos take forever. I've done a tracert and traffic latency is about as expected. I've ran a packet capture while trying to stream a video and many retransmission requests are being made. I'm thinking it's either that Verizon is either doing some kind of filtering to prevent bandwidth issues, or perhaps a Youtube server is being overwhelmed.

Answer 3

It might be because Youtube is trying to make a revolutionary state in uploading or making HD videos, and they might have made a few mistakes.

Answer 4

Open My Computer

Right Click C drive

properties Tab

Click on disc clean up

Put a Check on all boxes after scan

Next

Delete all files found and Finsish

Reboot PC

Cheers...........

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