| why is you tube so fucking slow | so slow | 09/06/10 10:28 | WHY IS YOU TUBE SO FUCKING SLOW???????????? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | elculver2424 | 09/06/10 11:54 | Stop swearing, there are kids on here. And YouTube isn't slow, it is probably just your computer. No one else is complaining about it. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | anmoose | 09/06/10 11:56 | Your fucking dog probably chewed on your fucking ethernet cable. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | mafiacooper | 09/06/10 13:45 | Come on chaps, this *is* actually a real problem, and it's been going on for a while to the frustration of a plethora of YT users - this is not the place to have this kind of base interaction. I am another user who is definitely in agreement that YT |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Krytical146 | 09/06/10 23:44 | First off, nobody likes swearing. And seeing as how your username is "so slow", you probably are pretty aggravated. Well, unfortunately, your mommy just didn't purchase a good enough connection for pages to load at the speed of light. It is YOUR comp |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jimboon | 09/06/11 10:09 | I have a 16Mb broadband connection. Speedtest always shows my download speed at atleast 14Mbps. The OOL ftp test shows my download speeds at 1.5Mbps. I can download music in seconds and films in minutes. YOUTUBE HAS SUDDENLY BECOME SLOW AND POINT |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | YouveNeverHeardOfUs | 09/06/11 10:13 | Invest in broadband! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | elculver2424 | 09/06/11 11:29 | IT IS NOT YOUTUBE!!! YOUTUBE IS FINE!!!! Now we have 2 people in here who need better connection. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Ferrsai | 09/06/11 20:10 | Actually it does run pretty slow even on low-res videos. It's actually a little bit sad. I wish more companies would go the extra mile. Very few companies believe in quality these days, it's all about profit. It should bite them in the ass. It d |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | gummydave | 09/06/12 3:10 | It could be your ISP. I'm with Sky and I have the 16Mbps broadband and get at least 13 - 14 Mbps at all times. Youtube is as fast as f**k in the day, but after 5pm it's like I'm on dial up. Sky adopt traffic management and there's nothing that can |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | defade72 | 09/06/12 3:37 | Say what you like about swearing... at least it got him/her a response... I've yet to see anybody with any sort of technical knowledge attempt to answer a single one of these "why is YT so slow" posts.... clearly something is wrong, but their whole |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | slowtube | 09/06/12 13:32 | MORE LIKE SLOWTUBE AMIRTE?~~ yea its totally fucking slow like in the last week.. fucktube |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | keenly | 09/06/14 1:04 | the swearing won't get us anywhere, youtube is a privilege not a right. but there is clearly a problem. over the last week lots of users (mostly international that i have noticed) are getting slow speeds. 20-40KBps for me. it varies from video to vi |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | defade72 | 09/06/15 3:45 | YES !!!!!!!!! IT WOULD BE VERY VERY GOOD IF YOUTUBE COULD AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE THE FAULT, AND TELL US THEY ARE WORKING ON IT..... rather than this constant ignorance where we are left wondering just what the hell is going on |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | keenly | 09/06/19 2:09 | my youtube is working again. how's everyone else? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Deoster | 09/06/20 8:26 | Youtube is applying geographic speed limit, anyone not from USA get slow speed for loading videos, I confirmed that by using USA proxy. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | TheFifthApes | 09/06/26 18:16 | Yup, I'm having this problem too. Speedtest.net shows 9 Mbits/ss down, 1Mbits/s up. Download speed is about 1.1 Mbites/s, yet when I load a 2 minute long YouTube Video, I need to pause it and wait for more than 2 minutes for the video to load. What i |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 09/06/26 18:25 | you ask me. i think the problem is all the upload, post is much higher. let see. you got MICHAEL JACKSON, youtube beta all happening at the same time. so all the user is really pushing youtube much harder. it been a crazy day as you can say. so ya. i |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | ash2ashindust | 09/06/29 5:52 | I love swearing, but I don't do it around children, which means I should not swear around the man who started this ridiculous mindf^&* fest. Does anyone with REAL technical knowledge have any real advice? I am a novice, I like to learn, like to hear |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | scottyt67203 | 09/06/29 17:39 | I have to agree, I will admit I do not have the fastest computer around due to it's age. But up until a few weeks ago, I could watch youtube with no problem. Now, I can not watch it at all, because first it tries to force HQ videos on me. But then |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | wraith0127 | 09/06/29 17:46 | Want an easy fix that might help? Try going to START-All Programs-Accessories-System Tools-Disk Cleanup, run that for all the hard drives you have and click on all the check boxes so they all have checks in them. That should get rid of all the intern |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | nosfer64 | 09/07/01 9:22 | Since a week my download speed ONLY in Youtube has become very slow. Can someone help me ? Thx Nosfer from Montreal in Canada |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | ohplease | 09/07/01 14:34 | I'd suspect it depends on specifically where you live. I think they have video mirror servers all around the world and it selects which server to use automatically depending on your location (to save on their bandwidth costs). So maybe some regions |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | CokeColaFTW | 09/07/08 16:31 | BECAUSE IT IS........DUH! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | omahazone | 09/07/09 14:27 | I changed internet provider again just recently and now my YouTube videos streamline without needing to buffer all the time, at all hours of the day. My thoughts come down to my last internet providers capping YouTube sites to stop them chewing up a |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | azlan96 | 09/07/10 5:30 | its the ISP. In my country, no ISP can support YouTube.. all are slow. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | wendy321 | 09/07/10 9:26 | its not the ISP . youtube stream rates are getting lower and lower. im on 8mb broadband and the vid loads at 20kb/s. Nice one youtube, your really making this site great. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | peterpb | 09/07/10 11:13 | its not isp |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jkhpmk | 09/07/10 18:32 | it is not my computer (3 months old custom built for gaming) yt is extremely slow in firefox but is normal in internet explorer... i haven't noticed a problem with any other sites in fact most if not all other sites load faster in firefox! i just wis |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Roci94 | 09/07/16 9:08 | It must be a problem from youtube , I see it's happening to alot of ppl ... i've tried deleting the temporary files from IE and it worked for like 10minutes then it turned slow again , let's just wait . |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Toodles8899 | 09/07/26 12:40 | I have been having this same issue for well over a week now. Waiting 5 minutes for a 3 minute clip to load is insanity. I hope this gets fixed soon or you tube will lose viewers in droves. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Toodles8899 | 09/07/26 12:40 | I have been having this same issue for well over a week now. Waiting 5 minutes for a 3 minute clip to load is insanity. I hope this gets fixed soon or you tube will lose viewers in droves. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | cberau | 09/08/01 19:12 | This seems to be happening everywhere. I find that the more popular a video is, the faster it loads. Less popular videos just take forever to load, therefore killing the somewhat seamless experience youtube used to have. It doesn't take serious compu |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | cberau | 09/08/01 19:14 | also this is not a geographic problem. The USA gets the same crappy load speed on some videos. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | elculver2424 | 09/08/01 19:18 | Listen, I do not know if it is YouTube because I am not having any problems and never have. I think it just depends on your current network connection to YouTube's servers. That's all it is, and sometimes the connection isn't the best. It's not necc |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | v8srghey3 | 09/08/06 12:54 | its youtube... i do speed tests and i get 3.0mps which i what im paying for.... youtube is just slow on and off like right now its slow. must pause videos. when i downloaded a 900mb movie in 30mins on utorrent |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | horgon | 09/08/06 15:00 | it is soooo youtube, im waiting for a fucking hour to watch a 5minute video for fuck sakes. i tried deleting cookies, installing a new flash player, deleting old files and everything else i can think of and it wont change at all. every other site wor |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | kamcrushr | 09/08/10 15:20 | I have tried everything, testing up and download speeds (they are more than adequate), upgrading Firefox to 3.5 (which I got rid of to buggy), reloading the latest flash player, clearing cache you name it I've done it. Nothing works it's still so slo |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Sylacs | 09/08/10 16:46 | I am also finding youtube excessively slow the last couple days. I dont seem to have the same issue with google video or other video sites tho. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | beavistv369 | 09/08/11 6:06 | every other site works good for me but fucking youtube is my favorite because i tallk to my friends, wacth vids and stuff now i cant its being fucking slow as fuck! i have to keep closing it down and bringing it back up!!! its nothing to do with the |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | wingnutt7 | 09/08/12 12:18 | Hulu, MSN, Vimeo, etc all stream video just fine. YouTube has been running slow for about 3-4 weeks now, no matter the hardware of isp. It's pretty bad, pretty sad. Hope things improve... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | willitbefixed | 09/08/12 21:30 | I'm sure they're concerned. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jynxed | 09/08/13 3:32 | Just because the OP has problems expressing them selves doesn't mean its a red light for every one to blow off the problem. Look around the post and you will see there is a buffering issue that has cropped in the last few months with some people. I |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | DarkPenguin | 09/08/13 4:48 | Why are there so many people in here claiming that it's the OPs connection/computer? I've been having a lot of issues recently with youtube such as videos loading very slowly, and sometimes not at all (an error occurred, please try again later). I |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Secret.Agent.ex.9 | 09/08/18 15:57 | agreed. there is a problem with youtube. hulu, metacafe etc run great. fix it google. you hear me? FIX IT. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jasonvaritekfan | 09/08/18 16:15 | I wonder if new features being added as slowing down the loading time for videos. Just the other day I notice that if I click on the video screen, the video will Pause or Play, depending on its previous state, and a pause ( II ) or play ( > ) icon wi |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Ritz_Crackers | 09/08/18 22:42 | I got updated firmware to my wireless router and no more video stuck loading. Please check your manufacture wireless router for updated firmware. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | satterwc | 09/08/19 16:47 | Let's see... on average... Youtube is letting me download at a maximum rate of 200Kb/s but an average of 45Kb/s. This means an 8-10 minute video (most of what I watch) will take up to 20 minutes to load. I CANNOT click on a link and just watch and ex |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Beechsundowner | 09/08/19 18:02 | I figured a workaround. Let video load till it stops. Click the slider bar 3 or 4 seconds ahead of where it's jammed. Video will resume loading normally and you can watch uninterrupted. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | crushmagnet | 09/08/21 19:07 | Look, I have done all the speed tests, done beta testing on software that can and does monitor every single website I am on, and I have over 4gigs of memory in 3 machines. I spend enough time on the net, with several different connections, that I ca |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | some114 | 09/08/25 16:31 | I'm having the same problem. I know its not my computer. My computer is fine. My internet is fine. But recently, youtube videos have been taking forever to load. They used to load really fast, but now, I have to wait 10 minutes to play a 2 min vid |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | lellalk | 09/08/27 16:09 | Hi Folks, I too am having problems in Pittsburgh PA... constant buffering... have for a few weeks and just got FIOS, maxing out the Speakeasy tests so I know it isn't on my end. Truly seems on YouTube's end. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | some114 | 09/08/27 18:00 | Well, not that it matters, but I'm in Washington state. So clear on the other side of the country and having the same problems. Except I'm on comcast. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Touch the Wombo | 09/08/28 21:23 | I live in Southern Florida and am experiencing the same problems as everybody else. For the past two and a half weeks Youtube has been unbearably slow and I know for a fact that it isn't my connection or machine. It's really kind of a shock that a p |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | malva00 | 09/08/28 21:32 | I live in San Jose, CA and it loads so slowly every now and then. It'll stop to load more and I can't watch a video smoothly. I load videos fine on Veoh though and my cable download speed is normal. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Rickbell7 | 09/08/29 2:21 | Okay, I will join the masses here too. I am in the midwest on Charter Communications and have had unacceptably s-l-o-w video load times from YouTube as well. This has been going on well over a month now. It is definitly NOT my ISP, connection spee |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Linuxmanty | 09/08/29 8:44 | Youtube has Millions of video views per day. They do several video conversions per second which makes the servers have a very high load. Youtube cant just keep adding servers to meet your needs. Google is working as hard as the can to make the server |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Fett | 09/08/30 20:48 | I have a 50mb line and Youtube is retardedly slow alot of the time. On my 50 line I have one PC and I have another 16mb line that 3 pc's share, usually not at the same time, and it is slow for everyone of them. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jathgnos | 09/09/03 22:04 | It is youtube. I have tried from multiple locations, and from different computers and it almost always runs slow. My home computer used to be able to load longer videos without having to stop to buffer every few seconds. Fast forward a few months |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | NuBiXx | 09/09/04 19:39 | youtube is very slow for me also it's been like this for about 4 months now. 50/10 mbps connection. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Gliktch Media | 09/09/05 9:00 | Jeez... people need to learn to _multitask_... Pretty much any modern web browser has tabbing now, I have between 20-120 tabs open all the time, just open up 10 different videos in different tabs (turn off autoplay of course) and by that time the f |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jasonvaritekfan | 09/09/05 9:06 | Gliktch Media: Yeah, uh-huh, I'll get on that brilliant suggestion right away. If one -- ONE -- single clip takes 10 minutes to load, how fast do you think 10 clips will take to load at once?? Really! Brilliant! I'm so glad you posted your pearls |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jasonvaritekfan | 09/09/05 9:06 | Gliktch Media: Yeah, uh-huh, I'll get on that brilliant suggestion right away. If one -- ONE -- single clip takes 10 minutes to load, how fast do you think 10 clips will take to load at once?? Really! Brilliant! I'm so glad you posted your pearls |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | some114 | 09/09/05 9:44 | To Jason. Contrary to your belief, loading multiple videos is an excellent idea.Loading 10 videos won't be any slower than loading 1 video. They all load at once. As your sarcasm points out that you don't like this idea doesn't mean it's not a good i |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | some114 | 09/09/05 9:46 | While this is not a permanent fix, it IS an excellent solution to the problem. Or use another video site, as they still seem to be loading fine (such as metacafe, howcast, etc). Although I do like YouTube the best. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | crushmagnet | 09/09/05 10:01 | @ SOME114 It is definitely a solution to the problem, and I have become quite an expert at buffering multiple videos. The real crux to the situation is the fact that we have to do that. With a broadband connect, these videos streaming, should take |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Dr.Feelgood449 | 09/09/05 10:11 | I'm sick of people coming on a help forum, ripping on youtube, and then yelling at them to fix a problem that isn't their fault. Do you guys really expect that to work? Well it isn't going to, just so you know... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | some114 | 09/09/05 11:27 | To crushmagnet: I definitely agree that we shouldn't have to do it. But jus like dr. Feelgoos said, Its not really youtubes problem to fix. There are just as many people who are having no problems as there are people who are having problems. I don't |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jasonvaritekfan | 09/09/05 11:53 | Well, Gliktch Media was trying to help, even though he/she was implying people don't know how to browse (whatever that means), but my tone wasn't cool. Sorry. Oh, well... whatever. I like YouTube but it's not the only site on the Internet. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jasonvaritekfan | 09/09/05 11:53 | Well, Gliktch Media was trying to help, even though he/she was implying people don't know how to browse (whatever that means), but my tone wasn't cool. Sorry. Oh, well... whatever. I like YouTube but it's not the only site on the Internet. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | some114 | 09/09/05 12:13 | Wow! Jason you're awesome! You are seriosly one of the nicer people on the Internet! I didn't think you'd apologize but that's seriously cool of you. Most people act tough because it's the Internet but the real tough people are the ones who actually |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Mattjsrules | 09/09/05 12:14 | Every YouTube video I want to watch doesn't load! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg | 09/09/05 17:08 | In my case youtube is very slow as well, and its not my internet connection cause i can download stuff at 200kbps which is not the greatest speed but its a good average for brazilian users,considering also all the registry implementations i've made i |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Gliktch Media | 09/09/06 6:31 | It's okay Jason, I think I can see how I could've come across as a bit of a douche too, I guess we'll call it even ;) And some114 is right, you're pro for apologising. In a way I was trying to suggest that people who are experiencing reduced perfor |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jasonvaritekfan | 09/09/06 9:24 | Cool. Thanks for accepting the apology. And thanks for trying to help, especially since Google/YouTube has chosen to ignore the problem. I'm going to give you suggestion and try and see if it works for me. Yeah I do watch videos on YouTube that are |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg.2 | 09/09/07 13:48 | Lol had to change the nickname cause somehow it didnt save in my google Acc..anyways.. just found a workaround for this but its highly recommended for users who know exactly what they'r doing(editing registry)... oka usually the normal behaviour(fo |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | M3rV | 09/09/07 21:54 | Hi all.. Been grumbling to myself about toob speeds for some time now. And I guess it finally got annoying enough to come and seek information on the issue. Now before some sanctimonious so&so helpfully suggests I get a better connection, save your |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Kurosh | 09/09/07 23:38 | Hi, Just adding my 2 cents. I've experienced this problem for the past couple of weeks or so too, maybe longer. I've adopted the "multi-tasking" browsing habit suggested above as a way to bear with the situation, but as I am currently watching vi |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg | 09/09/08 13:56 | Well guess no one tried my suggestion... i can now watch in HD with no pausing needed...speed goes over 240kbps which is the "limit" for my dial up 3G modem... so u can even double the value i suggested above and will go even faster!!! the problem is |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg | 09/09/08 13:58 | Oh btw that works/affects for every site including file download speed,u will notice a incredible performance improvement.. RR |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Kurosh | 09/09/09 19:03 | RR, Tried your suggestion, but it didn't help at all. The problem is on YT's end... they need to improve their server response, etc. The workaround you suggested would be helpful if DNS was having trouble querying YT's IP address, but then the pr |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | TurquoiseStar17 | 09/09/09 19:21 | Are you using Firefox as your browser? Just since the newest version, Youtube has been running slow on it, but with IE it's fine. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Kurosh | 09/09/09 19:28 | I'm using IE 8 with the latest patches. Best Wishes, Kurosh |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | satterwc | 09/09/12 7:01 | Same crappy speeds with IE, Firefox and Chrome. It does seem to at least have had some minor improvement in the past couple of weeks. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | guijam94 | 09/09/16 23:32 | I am having troubles with music videos.. the video.... this is an awesome guitar lead that is only 45 seconds.... does everyone see the delay in the video? No problem with audio. I have broadband and clean out all IE files regularly. Eve |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Kurosh | 09/09/17 0:11 | guijam94: Yes, I see the same lags in the video. Starts around 14 seconds, then every couple of seconds after that. Nothing wrong on your side I think ... just the way the video was made. The clue was the audio keeps playing, and the video is fu |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | eelRolyat | 09/09/17 16:27 | None of the YouTube videos will play. Most YouTube pages will not even load. I have no problems watching videos on any other site, so this is definitely a YouTube issue. This has been going on all week. Most days I can't even access my channel. When |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | luke16 | 09/09/21 15:40 | Youtube sucks. Google sucks. They don't even let you email them to report problems. It's like they are too good to respond to lesser beings. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | ZaphodMeerkat97 | 09/09/21 16:02 | Hey. Youtube isn`t slow. Sometimes when i open a video it load slow but if i refresh the page the videod loads very fast. If the site goes slow is because the computer or the internet conection. @eelRoyalt Try to delete all the cookies and temporary |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | UziUzi | 09/09/25 20:54 | Youtube has become unbearable for me. It used to work fine but for the past few weeks if not a tad longer the performance from Youtube has degraded from usable to useless for me. My connection to the net is fine to all you less then helpful idiots |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | nmrrjw66 | 09/09/25 23:54 | I was having this problem and found this after some research. It is a problem with DNS Settings. Follow the very simple instructions found here and it should work. https://www.opendns.com/start/ |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | timewarp | 09/09/26 3:08 | Problems with speed etc can sometimes be attributed to insufficient memory or virtual memory. After loading the operating system it might be worthwhile making a check to see how much RAM is available for other applications. Also, it would not hurt to |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | alkemann | 09/10/01 15:43 | There seems to be quite a lot of similar bug threads on this. Yes it is not ISP, computer, wifi or local connection speed. This is pretty obvious from the fact that other sites work fine, even youtube's non-video content is instant. And the fact that |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Segacdx | 09/10/05 1:06 | I have had youtube be slow one week or month and fast the next, your internet provider can make your speed change, for exp 5.0 mbps to 500 kbps and thats not farbut youtube can have sever problems to or you could have internet filter witch slow it |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Diaboyos | 09/10/07 16:19 | Youtube has slowed down considerably from what it used to be like. Videos won't buffer or it takes longer to get the video than the video is long. Sometimes you have to start it, pause it, and wait till it's done before you can even watch it, which |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | gonah | 09/10/09 20:04 | I let the dam video load to half before I play it, which takes fucking forever btw, but then when I try to play it it still stops on every 2 seconds even though half the video is already loaded. How difficult is it for youtube to let the video play s |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | suaprokr | 09/10/15 20:33 | This is bullshit! I wonder why youtube is so fucking slow! i used to be able to have multiple videos load up simultaneously and now i have to leave just one alone for a while before i even start to watch it, so that i avoid all the stopping. Someone |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | svar | 09/10/15 21:30 | It's been extremely slow lately, I don't know why ??? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | chunder34 | 09/10/16 13:25 | I have found it very slow in the past few weeks in teh UK near London I think it may be somehting to do with traffic control with Orange, but I dont get too many issues on other sites. I ahve also noticed things like live stream of tv from BBC is ver |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | AvidImpact | 09/10/16 20:51 | I agree that this speed issue has been a problem for me that past couple months, and it's getting worse it seems. I have a 32 megabit connection with Comcast and my downloads on good servers are around 2-3 mbps, so I know it is definitely YouTube's s |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Coaltrane | 09/10/18 17:33 | Hello my name is Coaltrane, I invested 2,000 dollars into my computer. 200 of that 2k was spent on a gaming network card, and I have T1 internet. 50 percent of the clips I try to watch on Youtube load so poorly I am forced to not watch it due to me h |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | TheGreyCrayon | 09/10/18 20:02 | Props to this Mo phucka ... This youtube is about to be the mutha phucking WHOTUBE cuz its so slow I could go to the users house and fucking download it faster on a mutha fuckin serial connection faster then they could host this shit. My fucking comm |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | TheGreyCrayon | 09/10/18 20:03 | PS espically free pr0n |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Slimbridge | 09/10/18 23:05 | To all the muppets saying "It's YOUR computer, it's YOUR connection", I have a monster oc'd i7 rig, live in Japan with a fiber optic connection (100Mb/s: http://www.speedtest.net/result/595019436.png) and work in IT. I'll put this simply: YouTube is patheti |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | warrenb213 | 09/10/19 17:59 | Slimbridge is speaking very validly. I'm on a 20mb full fiber connection, it seems some videos that are held on some of their servers are very quick to load, and some videos that are held on some servers that are either being overworked or have inte |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | monahawk | 09/10/19 19:47 | Definitely youtube problem. I've been uploading and watching videos for some years, and suddenly, every single video I TRY to watch is constantly 'buffering' and unable to play. After several minutes wasted to watch a two minute video, I give up an |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Yhiannah | 09/10/23 18:07 | I agree. Youtube IS slow. It's become slower since Google took over. It's slower sometimes than others. That's why some say it's fine and others say it sucks. The dude used profanity because he is frustrated like me (and others here). Is that an excu |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | JJ23 | 09/10/24 17:08 | Same here they do not play and YouTube Google seems to be either working on it but not saying anything or ignoring I started having the problem again after that last maintenance. So unmaintenance it please. I cant play a video through and its very f |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | JJ23 | 09/10/24 17:12 | follow up I have the issues on firefox and IE i spoke to a friend in a city 2000 miles away and they have given up on youtube as like me they cant get a video to play |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Thatguyk | 09/10/28 22:06 | I've noticed this as well, but only in firefox. Since IE is a horrible browser, and iTunes comes with safari I just use safari for youtube; no problems since. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Crono1000AD | 09/10/30 19:05 | Ever since the beta channels and all the other updates were added, YouTube has been either slowing down or not loading at all. You can thank Google for that. Sooner or later when we get old and wrinkled, it'll probably be gone by then... ...or it'll |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | pudd750 | 09/10/30 19:50 | when i go to task manager and look at performance , my 2.4 athlon with 2 gigs of ram is running at 100% when running a utube vid- not good - i know its a plain jane PC but this is not good performance from utube |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Mr_KrzYch00 | 09/10/31 7:24 | I live in Poland and I have the same problem but it started at 9-10am local time here. I was using it since 6 or 7am and it worked like a charm till that time. My router shows 100/1024 kbps bw, sometimes it jumps to 300-400 then drops down again to 1 |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg | 09/11/01 10:47 | Youtube might be facing some serious Ddos issue HeHe!! seems like bots is taking over all theyr link limit .... but all my tweaks seems to work as well , in AFD,TCPIP etc etc etc.... TcpAckFrequency set to a value of 1 makes all the difference as wel |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | smd58tx | 09/11/03 18:26 | Youtube has been unbearable for the last 6 or so months. I've used it with many different connections and computers, so it is not a network issue on my end. My thought is that youtube is limiting bandwidth to users because the service is costing the |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | qpstrafe | 09/11/05 15:55 | I noticed a few weeks ago youtube was running slowly when i watched HD videos. (I have 6Mb/s download) I dismissed it as server overload. Then it started doing the same thing on HQ videos. Now just today, youtube would not even load a low quality vid |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | baTonkaTruck | 09/11/07 11:25 | I am a software engineer for Cisco systems, so I may be able to shed some expertise here. The last year or so, Service Providers have been expanding their customer base, especially those using VoIP (IP phones). Throughput at their edge devices has |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | NIckMDal | 09/11/09 13:51 | Great post Truck. That seems quite right. Maybe it undermines my proposed solution. Here it is. The problem with the youtube concept is simply that it looks to hog up all the video viewing traffic for its own gain while relying on an infrastruct |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg | 09/11/10 17:43 | Ok... my tweaking solutions work for me in AFD/TCPIP and others..so lemme give u guys the last suggestions: run CMD.exe as administrator and type the following: netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled netsh interface tcp set global chimney=enab |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg | 09/11/10 18:31 | also add these two i almost forgot : netsh interface tcp set global dca=enabled netsh interface tcp set global ecncapability=enabled All my best, RR |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | stevecrye | 09/11/11 21:24 | Hi; I'm a network manager for a large (100 sites, 30,000 nodes) network. For the past several weeks, I've noticed performance problems with YouTube. This happens both with our 300 Mbps pipe at work, and at home on Time Warner Raod Runner. Tonight, f |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | stevecrye | 09/11/11 21:38 | Heh ... if you don't need more proof the problem is NOT ISP VoIP prioritization, or other non-Google things, have a look at this. Happened right in the middle of watching a vid that had *finally* loaded: 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something w |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | PoliteTia | 09/11/12 8:35 | Dear So Slow, Please watch what you type. There are a plethora of underage YouTuber's in this site. YouTube has put forth a Beta Version of it's former self. It is NOT your ISP, memeory, HD storage size, nor is it the CPU. I upgraded to IE8, wh |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Anonybon | 09/11/12 12:51 | Google are the death of YT, they ruined a perfectly good site... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Anonybon | 09/11/12 12:54 | Anyone remember the "we are experiencing issues and apologize" or "we are down for maintenance and will be back shortly" messages we ued to get before the take over? Now Google mess around with a whole host of shit and say absolutely nothing... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | bobsagat9 | 09/11/12 19:43 | why the fuck is fucking fucking you fucking tube so mother fucking fuck slow fuck shit |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | baTonkaTruck | 09/11/15 13:09 | ok, stevecrye, I agree with you (and mentioned in my initial post) that Youtube appears to be overloading their server capacity.. I agree. But, I don't see how in either of your posts you've managed to provide doubt that ISP oversubscription isn't t |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | m0nkey | 09/11/16 14:47 | I'm using business class broadband and I'm typing here, waiting for my youtube video to load. I don't think it's google servers or connection but most likley streaming software limitations. :[ Please fix! or megavideo will crap on you |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | CrackerJackTeebo | 09/11/16 15:27 | It gets slow on my end too. It does get annoying to watch a video pause over and over. At least dial-up is long gone :D |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | shanewu93 | 09/11/16 16:14 | For the past month, youtube was terriby slow for me. Fortunately today i found a program called Speedbit Video Accelerator it really makes a difference, and its free (: |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Java V8 | 09/11/17 0:31 | Youtube is dying.Soon facebook will follow suite.Then youtube will rollout premium services which you have to pay in order for you to have higher bandwidth priority.I used to think that google is a huge generous company that almost owns the whole int |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | M23 | 09/11/17 1:47 | It has been slow since the beta channels and some other changes....now most videos are 3 times as much in size....i dont even bother watching movies here anymore because a 8-9 minute part of a movie is around 40mb alone where it used to be around 15m |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | kyrirhcp | 09/11/17 8:56 | Don't be stupid. Facebook and youtube survive on the BILLIONS OF DOLLARS from the biggest industry on Earth (and cyberspace) which is advertising. they will never ever ever ever ever charge because then they will lose their huge audience which is the |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | CXK | 09/11/21 18:42 | This is an old post, but ive noticed this problem for a month. I dont want to hear its my connection either, ive got 34mbps downstream. Videos occasionally load quickly, but for the most part its extremely slow. I've tried this on 4 different PC' |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | timl2k9 | 09/11/23 16:36 | It's slow now. It's not my connection, it's definitely the site. I can download from apple at 3 m/bit a second and speed tests bear the same results. The site is overloaded. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | twester | 09/11/23 21:27 | YouTube is incredibly slow almost at all times. I thought it was just my connection. I was amazed that 1.5MB DSL was inadequate for today's internet, so I upgraded to 7MB. YouTube is still take at least five minutes to load a low-res video. It's |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Kanwisher | 09/11/24 0:09 | If this problem board wasn't so carefully hidden i would imagine there would be millions of posts in this thread instead of hundreds. Youtube has been good to be these past few years, but obviously the world has caught on. I no longer find hilarious |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | tweetiepooh | 09/11/26 12:14 | There is a problem somewhere. A video that last night took 30 seconds to download tonight was estimated at 35 minutes. Speedtest and other downloads are fine (~15Mb) which for a wireless link on this PC is prettty good. (Wired I get 20Mb). It cou |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jasmoran66 | 09/11/27 0:37 | It's pretty much YouSless Tube now. Not sure if it's a case of being over-popular or a plan to introduce a subscription system, but something is definitely wrong. Seems to me that the problems coincide with all the added features. Maybe they need to |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Qworst | 09/11/27 2:05 | Try using OpenDNS. Mine was unusably slow and stalling for several months thanks to Qworst M$N service. Using OpenDNS fixed the issue while the issue worked itself out. Now back to Qworst and so far so good. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg | 09/11/27 6:39 | i use opendns and if i dont tweak my connection with Netsh command line and registry youtube is just like 56kbps modem! i found/know other solutions for u guys to give it a try.. here it goes(this is for vista and windows 7 users): open/run the pro |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg | 09/11/27 10:50 | ok almost forgot,for those who dunknow how to deal with windows registry ,can optionally perform de following : netsh interface tcp set heuristics wsh=enabled which replaces this step : |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | s2000julius | 09/11/28 21:30 | YouTube has been getting progressively slower and slower over the past couple months, so stop telling people it's their computers and ISPs. I have roadrunner with typically 17-21Mbps downloads and just under 1mbps upload which is equivalent to tur |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HardenReg | 09/11/29 8:01 | I know ITS not a ppls pc issue,however i can testify with those tweaks solved partially my problems with UT,i can download a UT video here at 215 kbps which is a good avarage for my connection,so i dun have a 1TB of link but thats good enuff for me a |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Slimbridge | 09/11/30 8:32 | With Google rolling out ever higher video bitrates and HD modes, it seems their servers just aren't able to hold the extra traffic. I've seen a few improvements over the past few weeks, but nothing to write home about. Amazing that they can find all |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Burnt Bread | 09/11/30 9:10 | I can't even watch HQ vids anymore let alone HD. Used to be able to watch both with no buffering at all. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | 99 | 09/12/01 10:57 | okay today youtube doesnt even load within a min. Im on 100 mbit Optonline Ultra |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | cive666 | 09/12/02 8:27 | This is just another good example of a big company taking over a little company and turning something good in to dog poo. IMO it's all the damn ads they have on YT now, coupled with a lot more HD video. I live in the USA and we have net neutrality, |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | MoMo_LuV | 09/12/07 20:01 | yeah omfg just yesterday yt was fine for but wen i arrive home from school i turn on the labtop and go on yt and it became funcken slow so decide to clean out my computer which usually after makes my computer run faster but nothing wrks i restarted i |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Rayman2170 | 09/12/09 18:11 | Get Internet Download Manager (for free if you know where to look), you can download the videos (at your full speed) then watch them. after watching choppy videos I've given up on letting youtube do the work. i was actually able to fully download an |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | sean2078 | 09/12/12 17:27 | It's clearly YouTube's fault. I have a 24.5 Mb/s connection and YouTube HQ is RIDICULOUSLY SLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the time. I have to open 10 tabs of different videos, pause them all, eat a snack, just |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | fullmetal297 | 09/12/13 12:16 | Why are people blaming Youtube for a problem that is beyond their control. The problem obviously stems from the growing number of people on their site uploading and watching videos. Do you guys know how much it takes to maintain Youtube? Google is ac |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | disasterpastor45 | 09/12/15 16:26 | I've got NetMeter monitoring the download speed of a video I'm watching. It's bouncing around between 50KB/s - 150KB/s & for sure this is taking too long to even bother watching an HQ video. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | youtube is slow | 09/12/16 22:43 | This bandwidth issue is probably happening because people are home for the Hollidays. I wrote an article on this issue here - http://hubpages.com/hub/youtube-is-slow |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | BentSlightly | 09/12/17 17:34 | Youtube has been really pathetic in all browsers. Totally slow, unreliable, and failing on a daily basis. It regularly takes three times the length of the video to even see it without problems. ALL OTHER STREAMING SITES ARE JUST FINE. Hulu, Vimeo, Ve |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | ytisslow | 09/12/19 9:57 | I'm trying to watch a 4:10 video right now and it's been about FIVE minutes already and it's not finished buffering! This is awful. And it's not even in HQ or HD. :/ |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | sean2078 | 09/12/19 14:57 | LOL @ fullmetal297 Do you have any idea how much money they make off of us? YouTube should pay for the bandwidth or offer enhanced service as a product. What you don't do is what YouTube / Google is doing now: choking, which apparently is what you |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | sean2078 | 09/12/19 15:09 | Oh and for the record fullmetal297, you have no clue what you're talking about financially - http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/GOOG/financials. Yes YouTube costs lots of money every month, but that's the whole point. It's a free site that |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Marlinspike | 10/01/04 14:19 | I have tested my connection on http://speedtest.net and http://pingtest.net I have speeds of 35mbps download and 22mbps upload, and a ping of 3ms to my ISP. So why can I not watch even low quality Youtube videos? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | DNScompanies | 10/01/05 17:18 | My YouTube connection has been sooo slow for weeks dispite having a 35mb/18mb connection. I've decided that YouTube is now pointless and I've discovered a WAY better site called Vimeo.com. Higher quality, WAY WAY faster and just generally better all |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Nikokroko31 | 10/01/08 14:10 | I thought I was punished cause I'm french but I see that it's the same everywhere. I have a 20mb/1mb, no problem on the other video websites, even in HQ. But with Youtube, the download is SOOOOO slow.They are lucy to host Ray William Johnson otherwis |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | narcornics | 10/01/09 6:23 | I just went to google and typed in "Why the fuck do my youtube videos load slow", and came upon this. I can download at 2.2mb/s, nothing else is slow except for youtube. I'm getting a bit tired of the pausing throughout the videos. With a few hundre |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | narcornics | 10/01/09 6:25 | btw, how the fuck is that "Dad is Stuck" video so fucking popular? Delete that fucking video and ban the uploader. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | LSMofOhio | 10/01/09 17:59 | How much is anyone who is unhappy with You Tube speed paying per month for the service? Exactly, The reason the service is slow is that bandwidth is expensive and if you want fast service like other video sites then You Tube could start charging a |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | assingh | 10/01/10 9:50 | has any one even tried to contact YOUTUBE?? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | d0rkiishchris | 10/01/13 16:12 | certain vids are reliable. Others are hopelessly slow. I haven't changed anything with my internet. In fact I just upgraded all my equipment and modem. Still same problems with youtube. Everything else is fine. I can download a full blow movie |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | toadwaker | 10/01/17 19:31 | At work, 50 Mbps connection, download speed maxes out at 10 MBps(That's Megabytes) , yet youtube is as slow as it would be on a 56k connection, what the hell? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | vjHeaven | 10/01/18 14:34 | Do you use download helper addon with firefox? Try disable or uninstall that addon and see if youtube is still slow. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | vijay2345 | 10/01/19 19:45 | Use Chrome YouTube works faster in Chrome |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | MajorMartian | 10/01/23 11:05 | SOLUTION:: Regarding slow-loading YT vids.... I thought it was YouTube, since other video sites didn't seem to have a problem. However, I was baffled by this - so I did some investigating and also started noticing news vids hanging alot, too. I di |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | vicsunus | 10/01/24 3:33 | I am using Chrome browser on a 1000HE netbook with eeebuntu as the OS. Youtube used to run fine for me in Chrome but recently all videos I watch need to buffer every 5 or 10 seconds. And it seems the interface has changed as well allowing you to se |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | MonkeyRoach | 10/01/28 17:38 | WTF,i have a 20mb connection and its takes like 10 mins to buffer any video.I can only really watch videos late in the morning when no one is online. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jameshoffa75 | 10/01/29 19:50 | What the fuck is it with these pricks saying its not his problem!!!! Youtube is slow, thats a fact. As for "don't sware because children are watching," well, go to hell you hypocrites, you don't give your children vision, only dislove. You'd only kno |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jameshoffa75 | 10/01/29 19:53 | And for the record, I have had consistent problems with youtube being a slow bitch on all computers - at the library, on my iPhone, and on hotel wifi connections. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | ralphjon19 | 10/01/30 2:32 | I think its because of when Google joined youtube? youtube just went so slow ever since google came on yt. my connection is not the problem cause its fast on some sites but it lags on youtube. =\ |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | astman | 10/01/30 12:40 | Youtube is really going down in speed. It takes 5x more time to see a movie clip |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | fiercephoenix8039 | 10/01/30 13:34 | Well, I have Comcast and speed test show that my speed is exceeding 25mbps easy with noise in the 30ish range which is perfect and I have a signal of -1 or did he say 1. Any way I am sitting right next to the hub here and YOUTUBE is all but dead. Ve |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | PrinceAndy63 | 10/01/30 17:27 | YouTube does have probs for me also, cause I have a 10Mb line and its f-ing slow, and its not my system cause its pretty new, quad core @ 3.36 GHz with 4 GB Ram so its not my system and its not my line cause with all other downloads, I get full speed |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Carterwheel | 10/01/30 21:46 | No, YouTube is just slow. It has nothing to do with my Internet. On every other flash based video streamer, videos load with no problem, only YouTube. On my desktop PC, on my iPod, YouTube is a slow piece of shit. The ads play flawlessly (isn't that |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | ranzo | 10/02/01 13:15 | its not for any connection, and is not about the connection speed, anyway youtube is going very slow on my pc now. fuck u tube |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | indymuaddib | 10/02/01 16:58 | 37 minutes to buffer and watch a 10 minute video and its not the connection, i have Roadrunner Lighting, 40mbit down 5mbit up |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | phempa | 10/02/01 17:15 | godawfully slow for me on a 7meg dsl connection. I'm DONE with youtube |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | veeranshuran | 10/02/02 13:06 | Its damn slow now |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | blue luke234 | 10/02/02 14:34 | your cp (computer) is very slow blue luke234 |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | machristay | 10/02/03 11:33 | I am working for a client, filming and uploading help videos onto their youtube account, and the HD videos I've uploaded so far all stutter and pause. Since there's no real answer to this problem, and it's been going on for a while now, I'm just goin |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | MiCoIT | 10/02/03 14:34 | Try this: (THIS WILL NOT AFFECT YOUR VIEDO QUALITY! A 360p - 20MB file stays a 360p -20MB file!If you have a Mac you can follow it in the Activity Window of Safari!) - Go to your account - choose on the left side "playback setup" - put it to "I have |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rcaseisd | 10/02/03 20:10 | Youtube is excessively slow. If any of you want to debate networking and computer quality, bring your Cisco Certs along with you to prove you have studied it and worked in it as much as I have and then say it's a computer issue. Youtube is excessivel |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jobit | 10/02/04 12:24 | I find it funny that the comments stating it's YTs problem receive >500 upvotes, yet there are still some people believing it's a network issue. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | burry001 | 10/02/04 19:02 | IT Analyst here, with broadband, and screaming broadband at work. Youtube is garbage on all connections. Just did a google search, first hit was this thread. Surprise, surprise. Another huge company ignoring the masses and pretending like the pro |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Adideva3 | 10/02/05 13:00 | Yeah I wonder why too, youtube all of a sudden if fucking slow ,videos use to stream like noting for me and now since this new fucked up changes they made, videos now on youtube can't even stream out properly.I have like 4 mbps ,if I go on movie site |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Adideva3 | 10/02/05 13:09 | FUCK WAY WITH YOUTUBE ! They need some fucking ass competition to fuck them all dried up.Then they'll learn. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | MiyojinMutou | 10/02/05 13:09 | Now these mother fuckers don't know I have to work out continuously for an hour. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FUCKING THING TO PAUSE LIKE LINDSEY LOHAN ON A CRACK. I DOWNLOADING MY WORKOUT THIS EVENING ILLEGALLY. TAKE THAT MOTHER FUCKERS. You know on a side |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | MiyojinMutou | 10/02/05 13:11 | OMG I have a feeling Disney owns Google, youtube and 4kids |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | kakrami | 10/02/05 16:51 | I agree with "mafiacooper" the problem is that they have been continuously updating youtube since it got famous.. they just don't let youtube stay the way it is for a little while.. they use all their brain to keep putting more stuff on the page inst |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | pcxpert26 | 10/02/05 16:54 | Listen, this is for all of the ignorant posters that have demonized the original poster for so called swearing. I am working on a degree in criminal justice, the first thing I learned last year was the "United States Constitution" have you heard of i |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jameshoffa75 | 10/02/05 16:56 | Amen PCXPERT |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | djbehnke.mail | 10/02/06 20:34 | I have a high speed broadband connection rated at 10 mbps, and I get around 13 - 31 mbps on http://speedtest.net depending on the server. I also have a computer that gets around 25 fps on Crysis max settings at 2048x1152 with no AA. So I would say it's a pr |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | disasterpastor45 | 10/02/07 0:51 | Using NetMeter I can see how fast these videos stream to my computer. This week has been especially bad for a majority of videos I watch, but it's been bad since late May, 2009. NetMeter says the download speed from many YT videos is 0.05-0.15Mb/s, w |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | YTANDY100 | 10/02/09 12:51 | i use a cell modem which when it connects says 7.2 mbps ( i wish ) on good days it may get up to 900 ish but is usualy much slower , i have got in to habit of pausing videos till they have finished downloading and they play fine but after a while the |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Constantine015 | 10/02/10 14:15 | yes,youtube really is fucking slow.I have a 13 mbps connection and everything is really fast for me on the internet except youtube,sometimes a 2 minute 480p video is loading for 5 minutes while I could downnload that same video from somewhere less in |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | podemy | 10/02/11 13:14 | WHAT THE FUCK I CANT GET OVER 100K/S ITS LIKE IM STUCK IN DSL LAND!!!!!!!!!! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Bigcockboy | 10/02/11 20:21 | Im having the same problem! Ever since they did that last retarded youtube update it fucking slow and gay now. YouTube lost my interest |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jet2612 | 10/02/12 8:59 | um for all those haters out there telling people to get better internet connections and pcs you need to stfu, i have the fastest net speed i can get in my area youtube has always worked fine but for the past few days it has slowed to a crawl for ever |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | dono5932 | 10/02/12 19:31 | My speedtest result is 147mb for download 40mb for upload. I used Chrome 5.0.3 dev build. suddenly YouTube hardly buffers and i will have to pause frequently. it is either the browser or YouTube FIX IT! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Turtl3Hybrid | 10/02/13 13:01 | My computer was very fast but for some reason its gone slow |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Turtl3Hybrid | 10/02/13 13:03 | Well my computer hasnt gone slow its just youtube keeps buffering |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Vano | 10/02/13 14:10 | It is seems to be a specific video related + regional related. For example I get about 50KB/sec downloading one video, but another video downloads at 600KB/sec Then the 50KB/sec video downloads just fine to friend of mine who lives on west coast an |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | afo45td | 10/02/13 23:49 | and now even a 1 and half minute uppload has statrted to drop internet. I am uploading on the you tube site, not using 3rd party app. Is it timing out due to slow speed or other issue?? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | msazak | 10/02/14 11:40 | My fucking youtube is fucking slow too. I'm going fucking crazy. Suçum ne ulan youtube? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | irishimport77 | 10/02/14 22:50 | Hey all you idiots that are responding with things like "your mommy didn't get you a fast enough connection" and the likes... shut the fuck up. It is a legitimate question as to why the FUCK does it take me 45 minutes to buffer a 3 minute music vide |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | irishimport77 | 10/02/15 12:53 | Please oh PLEASE for my SANITY.... I have a 20mbps connection for my home business... WHY IS it a NIGHTMARE to use Youtube suddenly? I just tried to watch a 2 minute video and it took about 15 minutes to load. I had to slam my laptop shut to avoid |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jeff33702 | 10/02/15 15:46 | I too have noticed that, over the last 6 months or so, YouTube is become PAINFULLY slow. They are leaving the door WIDE OPEN for a competitor to come in and take all of their traffic. I too have a plenty fast machine and internet connection but onl |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Trizicus | 10/02/16 17:20 | YT is slow around 4 to 11PM for me every night. No other websites such as Hulu do not have this problem. Also my connection is 8Mbps so it IS YouTube. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | MYNAMElSKHAN | 10/02/17 12:53 | YOUTUBE IS DISGUSTINGLY SLOW AND EVERYONE THAT DISAGREES SHOULD TAKE BRAINLESS HANDS OUT OF THEIR ASSHOLES AND STOP ACTING LIKE MUPPETS |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | inettoavivere | 10/02/17 13:23 | Youporn loads videos even faster than Youtube. That's simply embarassing. :) |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | orbiter8 | 10/02/17 16:37 | Same for me here in the UK.. You Tube seems to be getting slower and slower nowadays. I've got a good 12Mb downstream connection and everything webwise is working fine, apart from You Tube. Almost every video I choose to watch starts to download pret |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | voldrix | 10/02/17 20:40 | I had this very problem. it is real. and to all of you who post irrelevant shit about swearing or other useless crap. stop spamming. here is what I found. i was downloading youtube videos at about 15KBps. but i switched my DNS server, and it started |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | hoboX10 | 10/02/17 22:19 | Look, people that are saying the problem is on our end, not youtube. It's OBVIOUSLY on youtube's end. they must be using shitty servers. i have a 12 Mbps connection. That means when I download a file, I roughly get 1.5 megabytes per second, or 1500 |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | disasterpastor45 | 10/02/18 0:36 | I'm getting 68 kbytes/sec from YouTube tonight. Epithet wanting target. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | teikyo30 | 10/02/18 17:26 | I hate when people suggest cleaning temp files, cookies, etc. I worked for a major software company at the world headquarters, and that's the answer we were told to give 99% of the people who didn't know any better. OBVIOUSLY, if people are reporting |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | monty22001 | 10/02/21 8:44 | I'm trying to watch a long Nova episode, and it's taking literally HOURS to download 1 and a half hour video. I know one thing that isn't slow though, the Best Buy ad that was not skippable before it. Those ads never chug.. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | monty22001 | 10/02/21 8:47 | Oh, and I found the same vid on hulu. Wow, actually streams! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | kwaad2 | 10/02/21 15:49 | I just wanna chime in here, and say, Youtube's servers are a joke now. I'm sitting here, just spent the last hour reading up on how horribly slow youtube's servers are, and my 10 minute, 720p video. (yeah, I decided against the 1080p version) is fina |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | pichu11984 | 10/02/21 19:30 | i actually agree with "so slow" cuz youtube was working fine last year and now it is reallyslow. it sucks. i noticed it too. but you just have to live with it. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | orbiter8 | 10/02/22 6:37 | I'm affraid I for one will be giving up on You Tube shortly and looking for another host. It's not just the download speed of video clips being deathly slow and the crappy adverts that have appeard. But I'm getting sick to the stomach to see every vi |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | petsss | 10/02/23 11:24 | Youtube is f*cking slow. I have 40 MBPS connection - I should be able to look even 1080p videos smoothly, but I have even problems with playing some 480p videos. This sucks. Make it faster. Buy a server. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | orbiter8 | 10/02/23 13:47 | Does YT ever read this help forum or listen to what it's customers have to say regarding their hosting issues, or is this thread just stuffed away in a corner on some hard drive somewhere? Please fix the slow loading and jerky video playback YT :( |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jameshoffa75 | 10/02/23 13:56 | Forbes has an article titled "The google fraud" in May's issue dealing with YT putting a cap on bandwith per video so users have a chance to view advertisments, and so users refresh the page, increasing the ad views, = increasing revenue. Is anybod |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | mitchellm4a1 | 10/02/23 15:06 | For me, Youtube has been great up to about 4 weeks or so ago. at that point, it spiked and now i cant make myself watch videos because i need 5 minutes for a 3 minute video to buffer. This is getting ridiculous and i would ad least like them to add |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | HomieG75 | 10/02/25 15:27 | The problem is that youtube experiences alot of traffic, and sometimes it's too much for the server. Don't listen to these dumb bastards. It's Youtube. I'm having the same problem and my connection speed is similar to yours. Right now, it's 5:25p |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Dezee96 | 10/02/25 16:22 | I have this problem too... like the guy who has the most popular answer right now. Might I add that you guys are just saying his stuff is wrong....I have worked in the Tech industry for ten years now. I have tested with my own custom built desktop |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | flarekary | 10/02/25 17:03 | yo, Trizicus, youtube is slow at that time for me too. 4-11PM. This is BS. ever since youtube went completely commercial its sucks donkey marbles. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | youslow | 10/02/26 20:10 | it is you tube dumb ass! you guys are rampaging about connection???? i have 25mb connection and finish downloading 700mb movie in 15mins or less! youtube is just full of crap now! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | youslow | 10/02/26 20:22 | here is a simple fix everyone! use firefox and download (Download helper extension ) once the video pop up, click on the download helper button then click copy url dumb ass! then paste it on a download accelerator program like flashget,bitcommet th |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Asiam | 10/02/26 20:52 | Very slow for me as well. I just let the videos buffer a while. It'll come back. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | SOSTacojohnson | 10/02/26 22:05 | Mother FUCK YOUTUBE. I switched |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | benperth | 10/02/27 7:35 | In the last few weeks I have found youtube really really slow. I have tested my internet connection and my speed is fine (download at about 300k/sec). But I seriously can barely load a 10 minute movie. I'll need to let it buffer for a few minutes bef |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | SVnerd | 10/02/27 10:58 | I'm facing a similar problem too. There are days when youtube is slow even thought my connection is fast enough. This may or may not be because of youtube but I also found out that some ISPs or company/university networks intentionally choke the ba |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/02/28 9:16 | Youtube IS indeed slow!!! I don't care to hear from people who don't find it slow. It doesn't help the rest of us, when I can guarantee that there is no problem on my end. Half of you probably have it just as slow, but just don't know how it's suppo |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Alexander J. | 10/02/28 19:42 | I've found switching over to the Google DNS helped me. I'm wary about staying on it, but it runs YouTube faster for me. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | InfiniteBlaze93 | 10/02/28 22:23 | The prob is definitely on youtube's end. I recently upgrades from 3mbps DSL(AT&T) to 20mbps Cable(Comast) and the videos buffered just as slowly as they did with my 3Mbps connection. YouTube is obviously shaping users' bandwidth. However, there is a |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Rhin0Neil | 10/03/01 5:07 | I was trying to watch a video about a mobile phone. But the advert for O2 was using 100% of my cpu. and it took 20 minetes to load the 2 minete video.. If i go to Metacafe it runs fine but youtube is so slow.. WHY??? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | cyot75 | 10/03/01 18:13 | It's 3-1-10 and u tube has been terribly slow for about three weeks now. My computer has not changed. They are tampering with it on purpose, to make speed worth more money. Why would u tube be the only single company in the world that don't let mone |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jameshoffa75 | 10/03/01 18:28 | Cyol is 100% correct. --^ |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | brtkrbzhnv | 10/03/04 10:48 | I have a 100 Mb/s connection. Some of YouTube's 720p videos play smoothly whereas some of the low-quality ones do not. This s quite annoying. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | yea me again | 10/03/04 12:03 | I am currently watching a "480p" format video on YT. While loading it, I monitored the downloadspeed. It never extended above a peak 68 kilobytes per second, while my line could handle a strictly net speed of approx 320 kilobytes per second. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | zipzap | 10/03/04 18:59 | I Got a 23Mb Connections and a 1080P video worked today and 8 hours later i showed the same video and its not loading WTF...............i went to the youtube speed test and it seems googles only accepting 4Meg/23-28Meg WTF.... please help. To see if |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | zipzap | 10/03/04 19:01 | i agree with "yea me again" i should be getting 2500kilobytes and im geting 368Kilobytes |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | zipzap | 10/03/04 19:02 | I laughed because google says there going to be launching this 1Gb Connection and they are already haveing trouble keeping up |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | krystalpink | 10/03/04 19:16 | i bought a brand new laptop and i have wireless net. i went on youtube and it was so slow.. i called my cable network and they came out and switched my box for the net.. when i was still having the problem they told me ever sense google bought youtub |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | puppylover | 10/03/04 19:33 | i was trying to work out following a 5-min vid.... but it keeps buffering. so i refresh the page and the vid wont even load. and yea.. the ad covering the vid is extremely annoying.. i hv to keep closing it for each vid while playing a list for my wo |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | orbiter8 | 10/03/06 9:47 | No point even trying to watch videos on You Tube these days as the download speed is soooo poor. I've just had to wait over 5 minutes for a 2 minute clip to download. And just to prove it's not my connection I can give you an idea of how fast that ac |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 10/03/06 10:01 | See if this help you any. i found out some lag and/or slow can be a ram leak. like firefox have it. my firefox start lagging at 300mb of ram. now and than i find it at 500mb of ram. lot of user have this problem as well. now my firefox dont get pass |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/03/06 10:16 | rwmtiger, This topic has nothing to do with lag. This has to do with youtube being slow, which should be pretty obvious from the title alone. It's also very obviuos that the problem is at youtube, and not in any ones browser, computer or internet c |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 10/03/06 10:28 | and the youtube can become slow if your RAM is too high. just look and see if that is the problem. it was my problem on slow upload. i not getting slow video no more... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/03/06 12:31 | No, this has nothing to do with ram. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 10/03/06 12:45 | well. i do think it is. i can show you if you like -.- it not hard. i can trun off a addon and let the ram go to 500mb. than you will see my video will have slow load problem. as what you call "youtube problem". than i turn it back on. let my firefox |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 10/03/06 12:47 | think* |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | williambeepbeep | 10/03/06 14:43 | fuck the kids. why would they be hanging out on this forum anyway? they are too busy showing each other their genitals on stickam and 4chan. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | disasterpastor45 | 10/03/07 9:55 | I've had a good connection on YouTube today from about 5am - 12:45pm ET. People on the East coast got out of church and my streaming speed went from 1-2 Mbytes/sec down to 68 kbytes/sec. I can feel the throttle. It's getting consistent at 68 kbytes/s |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | dreamgear | 10/03/07 18:38 | Most videos play fine. *All* "featured' videos play fine But once in a while I find one that just buffers too slowly and ends up pausing. I have a fairly well-maintained windows box (I am an IT pro) Oddly enough if my son plays the same clip on his |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | chipmunkfanalways | 10/03/07 19:06 | You tube is SLOW... Some people cant see that like the one that made a nasty mention about the connection cable... Get over yourself you dumb moose... It seems that this person letting them know about this problem is not the only one having that trou |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | CrackerJackTeebo | 10/03/08 0:50 | For me it depends which computer I am on. My laptop, which is about 4 years old, is slow and lags when viewing videos. My desktop in the den has no problems whatsoever. Just an FYI, even though many have probably already hit on it, but the time of d |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/03/08 2:27 | Some people here are confusing things a bit. There are talks of two kinds of lag: 1 - Slow computer. The video playback is jerky, because the computer isn't fast enough. Naturally since videos have been better and better quality, this is an increas |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Ooglegog | 10/03/08 16:07 | I have recently discovered that using a proxy service like HideMyAss.com can make a video that is taking forever to buffer actually stream at a normal, reasonable rate. This is far from ideal. Especially when, for example, this means you are no longe |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | fabforrest | 10/03/09 16:19 | well, i have videos that have played fine for 3 years that are now stalling like crazy. and there is no loading while paused. i have a big fast computer and a very fast connection. it ain't me, babe. videos i put on VIMEO play just fine. that's my |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 10/03/09 17:39 | lol. i have no problem on my end. i got fast 4 year old pc. great net and keeping my Firefox ram low. youtube play fast in HD. there more than just 2 problem. problem 1: firefox over time will run high on ram. any thing pass 250mb will slow your net |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 10/03/09 17:45 | problem 6: have lot of thing send data over net. like yahoo, IM, etc.. problem 7: fail to disk defragmenter. dont do defreg can make your pc lag. i put in 2 more. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/03/09 23:15 | rwmtiger, you situation is not relevant to this topic, so you can stop posting about it. Good for you, that youtube is streaming fine where you live. It doesn't help the rest of us. It's incredible that you still cannot understand that people here |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 10/03/09 23:30 | you still have no proof to back it up? just got to tell me s??? up. that it (o,O) it not that hard to make a video just make me happy. btw. i know more than what you know. i can show you info of all the thing it can happen. it just a little google. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | stuartindigo | 10/03/09 23:37 | What does http://www.youtube.com/my_speed show? It is believed that some ISP's are deliberately throttling Youtube to either preserve their bandwidth or promote their "new ultra-fast" service. The fact that many people in different parts of the world |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/03/10 1:24 | rwmtiger, you clearly have very little knowledge about computers and software. A lot of us that have posted here know what we are talking about. If you cared to read what people have written, and you understood how things worked, you would see that |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/03/10 1:26 | stuartindigo, yes that is also a possibility, although I don't think the ISP's I've tested are doing it. Youtube might deliberately be slowing the service for some regions or networks though. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 10/03/10 7:55 | you don't have to take my word for it. there lot of reason. you can say what you like. btw. the thing i post it have nothing to do with software. there are some of the problem. there no point try talk reason with you... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/03/10 8:23 | What?!?!?!? Please just stop derailing this topic. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Adideva3 | 10/03/10 16:35 | YouTube is very slow today ,anyone says anything otherwise don't have a clue ,so get a clue,I watched a 4 hour movie on stagevu and it streamed out fast enough that I did not have to pause the video not even once to watch it ,youtube is ridiculously |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | trimzulu | 10/03/11 19:51 | @rwmtiger I ran a http://speedtest.net bandwidth test that shows 10mbit with a ping of 59ms.My ping to http://youtube.com is ~100ms.I run a gaming rig with a defragmented Raptor 300GB hard drive.I absolutely do not have a virus(just for you, I did a scan).Also, be |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rwmtiger | 10/03/12 12:35 | ok. i think i see what happening. all the speed that go to youtube drop big time. even when my net work great. some how i end up less than 1mb of speed to youtube. youtube network must be over load it. that ISP test from youtube show it! http://www.y |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | ryanb788 | 10/03/13 15:58 | I am with all of you on this one ever since they changed the layout of youtube it sucks! I can't even leave a comment while the video is playing like I used to be able to do. Then the video will be completely loaded and all of a sudden stop for no ap |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | disasterpastor45 | 10/03/14 18:02 | 119 seconds to load a 5.77 MByte video file. = 0.0485 MByte/sec on a 3 MByte/sec ISP connection. YouTube = competing with dial-up. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | 10J35U5 | 10/03/15 14:02 | I BEEN TRYING TO WATCH RAYWILLIAMJONSTON FOR 5 MINS NOW!. Im on a 50meg connection (fastest in scotland) and Its taking me excatly 10 mins to load 1/4 of the video... I should have clicked the video before I went to school, Id have more to watch! Go |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | S3xySHol | 10/03/16 1:38 | Yea, YouTube is sllooww! I have Road Runner so tell me that my online is slow it is still YouTube now your going to tell me it is my new HP Laptop that is slow it is still YouTube that is slow. . . Now my friend uses YouTube at the local Library and |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/03/16 9:40 | I've actually noticed that also Google Earth loads data slower than it used to. Probably google is limiting the bandwidth to some regions/networks. Although Google Earth does load a lot more detailed data than it used to, it still seems slower than i |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | GenerolHavoc | 10/03/16 12:38 | With the transition and YT allowing HD 720 and 1080 videos to be uploaded now, there has been abit of lag generated. I find myself going to half a dozen videos, waiting for the buffering to load and start playing the video, then pause each video, and |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | liamcfc | 10/03/17 8:19 | same why the fuck is google so fucking slow it is sooo fucking slow all the videos are too fucking slow its fucking shit |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | liamcfc | 10/03/17 8:20 | and i think its fucking googles fucking fault as well fuck google |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | network hero | 10/03/17 23:11 | To all those that seem to think that YT is slow because your connection sucks: YOU ARE WRONG! Flat out. For those of you who know even the slightest thing about networking do a trace route to YT It took 19 hops for me to finally hit the server... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | darkvertex | 10/03/18 16:45 | Vimeo and 1080p quicktime movie trailers stream fabulously and instantaneously on my 100Mbits residential fiber optic connection, however YOUTUBE IS AS SLOW AS AN ANEMIC SNAIL CLIMBING A WALL! Stop nerfing the outgoing bandwidth, Google. We know yo |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | disasterpastor45 | 10/03/20 11:30 | It takes 135 seconds to load a file that should take less than 4 seconds to load. YouTube is an EPIC FAILURE this year (...and last year)! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | benalmador | 10/03/20 14:20 | youtube pissing me off, i am in london uk, i ve got 50mbps and every video clip is taking ages to load or does not load at all for a week already |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | 0023 | 10/03/20 21:37 | Chrome and youtube dont work together...i can only see first 2 mins of video then it stop downloading , i get 5mbps every other site except this shitty one...fuck you google and youtube im off |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | wildbloodydraong | 10/03/22 19:28 | I believe it to be an encoding issue. While some videos are superfast even in 720p and 1080p, some can barely make it to 10 seconds before running out of downloaded stream, even on 360p. My internet speed according to http://speedtest.net is 3.25 mbps, wh |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | am84pm | 10/03/24 10:01 | I have the same problem for around 3-4 weeks!!!!!!!! I have a fast internet and I can't watch a youtube clip as well as before. what is wrong with youtube? I think something fishi around here T_T |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | l3lackfox | 10/03/28 15:19 | I have a 3 Mb/s connection and YouTube has been extremely buggy over the last several months. Waiting 15 minutes+ for a 3 minute video to load/buffer is ridiculous. It's not my computer, considering it's brand new. I custom-built it so I know all th |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | blacknight811 | 10/04/05 19:16 | I don't know why it's slow either. I actually just invested in COX's new 50MB service and speedtester shows me at a constant 48MB per second and YouTube videos still can't keep up. There isn't any faster service that you can buy for a house than this |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | maxarea51 | 10/04/06 17:40 | ITS DEFINITELY SLOW |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Adideva3 | 10/04/06 18:29 | Yep working slow right now for me |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | totszwai | 10/04/07 19:05 | I have a 1MB sec connection, every site loads super fast excepts youtube videos. It takes especially long to initialize the buffer, and if it buffers, it would take forever to finish... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Hitman47 | 10/04/07 19:10 | Let's just put it this way - I wanted to watch a music video on high res and it wouldn't load, so I googled "youtube is SO SLOW". I came to this page and read through a few comments, about 3 pages worth.. I look back at my video -- oh lookie here not |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Colbster | 10/04/07 19:44 | It's slow. Probably because Comcast is shutting it down because it uses too much bandwidth. I have the fastest Mac laptop available and a cable connection. I can upload videos to my website faster than YouTube can display them. It's pathetic. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | niceguy191 | 10/04/07 20:15 | While I have a couple of youtube vids open in other tabs, I decided to do a speedtest to see if it was really my internet connection... I got about 4.5 Mb/s so my connection speed can't possibly be the problem. So then I decided to see if other fla |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | disasterpastor45 | 10/04/08 3:19 | Since the court ruled Net Neutrality is no longer viable, maybe our ISP's will stand up and tell us they are NOT throttling YouTube so the blame will fall squarely on YouTube finally. This pointing fingers at each other game is old and dead. I'm gett |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | orbiter8 | 10/04/08 3:47 | Is there any way of contacting Google regarding this issue? Because this service is not working and a service that doesn't work efficiently is not worth having. If Google can't run it properly You Tube should be given to somebody else who can. This p |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | s256 | 10/04/08 6:28 | "I find that the more popular a video is, the faster it loads. Less popular videos just take forever to load, therefore killing the somewhat seamless experience youtube used to have." This is how it has been working for me. Music videos, ads, anyth |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | slow U-tube | 10/04/08 8:09 | i agree its very frustrating i had to wait for atleast 15 min to watch a 3-min clipdisgusting :P |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | hilwigerao | 10/04/09 12:38 | This is the best answer for all of you. First off, Those who will just say it is your computer not youtube are uneducated and should not speak. Apparently you have not seen the Saturday Night Live episode where they clearly mock youtube for having th |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/04/09 15:17 | That was a crappy and pointless answer. You could say the same about a website with just one user, if it doesn't have enough bandwidth to support one user. The reason is that youtube is that they are not allocating enough bandwidth. It can never be |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | ChetoPuffs | 10/04/15 7:32 | I live in the UAE. I have 30Mbps connection. Fiber to my wall. Speedtest to Doha [URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/783204968.png[/IMG][/URL] http://www.speedtest.net/result/783204968.png Speedtest to Dallas, TX |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Youtube2010 | 10/04/16 2:41 | For the Last 3 days Youtube so slow yyyyyy?????? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | youtube team forum | 10/04/17 4:52 | alot of people ask why youtube is to slow in the UAE ...... etisalat is blocking some sexually pages on youtube so youtube is goin to work in about 2 months or 3 monthes so dont be worried youtube is going to work again thanks guys youtube team fo |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | sayoru | 10/04/21 10:37 | CONVERT AVI TO A SMALLER SIZE VIDEO FORMAT AND IT WILL GO FASTER !!! ^_^ |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | eewww | 10/04/21 19:38 | WHY youtube became so fucking slow??? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | selyss12345 | 10/04/22 18:08 | It seems YT's server has reached its limit. I noticed video's loading speed differ by time of day. At around 7-8pm MST, I can't even watch a 480p video in real time, but at 11pm, I can watch 720p video that loads 50% faster than it runs. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | eewww | 10/04/22 18:57 | LOL. its 1:58 GMT now and i can't watch most 360p real time on 8 mbps connection. TOTALLY SUCKS. All this bullshit happens almost at the same time they changed design |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Bal1st1c | 10/04/24 7:32 | Hey guys... In here, I have a 50Mb conection and youtube is slower every day... If someone tells me that the problem is on my computer, then I say that you are F* Stupid... I guess this problem is on the youtube servers. Please, go back on what you d |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rayray3 | 10/04/27 10:58 | its not the internet connection or my computer...its youtube...it never used to run this slowly before...some major issues are going on...dammit youtube...ever since u changed your layout...things have been quite unbearable...some things are better l |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | FuuckYT | 10/04/29 18:37 | Fuck YouTube and their changes. YouTube was best before it was owned by Google. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | SaintsCanada | 10/04/30 9:14 | I have no problem with Americans, but they represent approximately 1/18th of the population of this planet. 1/18th. Come on Google/Youtube. Stop sucking. Why do you have to suck so much? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | DragonSasha | 10/04/30 15:17 | Yeah, I have a 4GB computer with a 3Gbps connection... and it's still slow. It's probably YouTube + FlashPlayer 10 somehow... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | kurazy | 10/04/30 15:50 | yeah somethings up with youtube... some buffer fine while others hardly buffer at all... waited 10mins for 5min clip to load ? ... i have verizon fiber-optic 30Mbps ? running on gigabit network ? still issues. i wouldnt mind pay a couple bucks for ba |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | VoidConcept | 10/04/30 16:01 | I've had some problems just before the last Flash update, but it seems that it has gotten a bit better since then. However, it is still MUCH slower then before. My first thought for this happening was "oh, they must be updating something," which wa |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Ian M. Jones | 10/05/02 20:37 | Yeah it's really annoying. I'm paying for a 10mbps connection Speedtest is usually higher, normally around 12-16mbps. I have fast downloads, other video streaming sites load incredibly fast. I can't watch a 360p video on youtube without it buffering |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | disasterpastor45 | 10/05/02 21:16 | We've been here complaining for 11 months. Where's the Better Business Bureau? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Jdog1989 | 10/05/05 12:50 | hi I did have the same problem with youtube as well for litterally ages but I found out why youtube loads slowly on some i tested my theory on mine and a few of my mates computers and it's solved the problem for all us completly. youtube uses adobe f |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | 0rlantho | 10/05/05 22:28 | MIREN CABRONES YO ESTOY EN MONTERREY Y TENGO EL MISMO PROBLEMA DE TODOS USTEDES CON http://YOUTUBE.COM: PINCHES VIDEOS TARDAN DE LA CHINGADA PARA CARGAR. O SEA NO MAMEN ESTA ES LA PINCHE SEGUNDA VEZ QUE ME PASA CON ESTOS CABRONES Y YA ESTOY HASTA LA MADRES |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/05/06 1:12 | Orlando, turn your caps lock off. It's retarded to write a whole post with only capitals. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | disasterpastor45 | 10/05/15 4:36 | I like All-Caps, my eyes are getting bad. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | cadsii | 10/05/30 17:37 | maybe cause they are putting in so many fucking ads into the system to get more money, motherfakers... youtube use to be cool to watch now im getting 100kb sec download max any hd content stalls and skips its bs |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Chuchaqui | 10/05/31 17:56 | I just got a fiber optic line in hoping that I would no longer have issues like these... I was wrong. Now it just seems like I just wasted my money... |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | fernandoago | 10/06/05 5:03 | i have the same fucking problem , and is not my comp, or my band , is the you tube problem.. fuck you tube!! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | funguus | 10/06/07 10:10 | OMFG! I live in Norway, the fucking 12 months youtube has been slow. Currently they set the speed down at 19:00, they just did it 10 min ago!!!!! FUCK THIS! Youtube is totally useless every fucking day after 19:00 |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | funguus | 10/06/07 10:15 | Double post, sry. But haven't youtube made any statements on this issue?! I feel like we're being ignored, AND IT PISSES ME OFF! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | kmosti | 10/06/08 12:31 | Probably the same issue as the google index over web sites. Sites that are not visited frequently are not indexed to the same extent as more popular sites (if indexed at all) I suspect that the more popular videos are loaded in RAM, while less popu |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Jayded01 | 10/06/09 6:20 | I have same issues with 110M cable.. Speedtest shows 70-90Mbps so it isn't it. Can't even think of watching HD. Small 360p video takes 10 minutes to load!!! Do something! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | funguus | 10/06/09 8:17 | Last two days the slow down has been occurring at exactly 17:00 GMT+2 in Norway. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! And I know it's not my comp or internet provider cause everyone I know that uses youtube experience the exact same problem on different internet pr |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/06/09 10:08 | No dude, it is not flash that is at fault. The fault is nowhere but youtube. It's their bandwith allocation that are too low. There is nothing else to blame here. This is no mystery. Nobody needs to theorize on what could cause the problem. It's yout |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | dabman | 10/06/09 10:15 | Sweden got the same problem. Everyone here complains about how much Youtube lags. Do something about it please! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | okaaay | 10/06/09 10:23 | Same for me, it's pretty much impossible to load videos, even though I'm on a 100/10 uplink.. Worked great saturday, I belive, but since then, it's been like beeing back to the 9.600baud days. :f (Sweden here as well) |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | jaybizzle | 10/06/09 11:25 | While it has been loading slow as of lately it's nothing to today and yesterday which have been a disaster. Basically I can play about 1% of the videos. And those seem to be the latest ones from my subscriptions. Whenever I try to watch something spe |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | dabman | 10/06/09 14:09 | Why aint they doing anything? They arent even capeable of communicate with the community and report the problem! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Jakob Kramer | 10/06/10 11:51 | It's the same in Denmark where I live. I remember visiting the library in the mid-nineties. It was the only place I knew with an internet connection, but all their computers shared a single ISDN connection. Obviously the connection was slow. So I wo |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Tome1k | 10/06/19 7:25 | Freakin' slow here too. I'm on 40-60 Mbps connection (VDSL) in Warsaw, Poland. On YouTube I get miserable ~2 to ~3 Mbps. On Vimeo I get 20 Mbps. So basically people claiming that YouTube has no performance issues should bite their thongs. Or provide |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Uaio | 10/06/21 23:49 | Google Mexico won't even open in my computer. Gone for days! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | rudnik | 10/06/23 2:07 | I'm on 2Mbps connetion, but i cant watch any movie even in the WORST quality without leaving it to buffer for about 15-30 minutes. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | eddyb6666 | 10/06/24 0:03 | am with "so slow" . i have to pause it so it can load and it seems like its talking 4ever to load , NEEDS TO KNOW HOW CAN I FIX IT ! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | funguus | 10/06/24 21:10 | Eddy, there is nothing you can do to fix this. Only youtube can fix this, by removing those stupid 1080p HD videos! FFS, who really sees any significant difference between 720p and 1080p? These problems started when they introduced HD, and continued |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | prabhas123 | 10/06/25 12:51 | youtube is slow. i dont know what will the ceo of youtube is waiting for. slow slow slow |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Tome1k | 10/06/25 13:23 | CEOs don't give a crap when they have monopoly like google has. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Phead128 | 10/07/01 13:33 | I have Verizon FIOS (At least 18 MB/S download), and it was 6 AM in the morning, and I was the only person awake. Guess what? Youtube was slow. It's been like this for a while. I am disappointed. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | RicardoP | 10/07/03 7:00 | Fucking Youtube bitch is so slow. I took 15 minutes just to watch a 3 minute video. Fix this gay shit. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | .jon. | 10/07/03 13:52 | HD is unwatchable. If only they spent as much time on improving the service as they did on unnecessary shit like the vuvuzela button. Get your fucking priorities right for once, Youtube. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | aaronoftheforest | 10/07/08 20:01 | it's youtube. sucking balls. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | DaxFX | 10/07/08 22:28 | buy a new pc ! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | sschwegler08 | 10/07/21 20:38 | I'm having the same problem, also. I just bought this laptop, had everything put on it by the establishment I bought it at (every time I try to download/upload anything on a computer, it goes horribly wrong), and it was working fine. A few days ago, |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | michalis95 | 10/07/22 4:27 | People all CALM DOWN!!! You know that Google "purchased" Youtube right?? Hence the theme change. Google is trying to change players, and somehow *blipped* up. I have an Internet connection of 6mb/s. Using Opera, Firefox, it is slow. IE improved it a |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | toodamnslow | 10/07/24 12:52 | shut the fuck up, youtube is slow as fuck and it can suck my slow ass balls motherfuck |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | RinconSportsMassage | 10/07/24 13:45 | swearing is fine with me. and most people don't have fast connections so youtube should do something creative!! they are still creative? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | TestECull | 10/07/24 13:48 | HAppens to me all the time. I can watch about 15-20 videos before it slows to an absolute crawl. I'm talking 5 minutes to watch a 10 second shitty TF2 poop slow. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Forboding Angel | 10/07/24 15:07 | 24/1.5 connection here, and youtube is fail. I'm currently looking for an alternate place to host my vids. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | waynec41 | 10/07/24 18:02 | Wraith0127: i did http://that.it made no difference!!got any other ideas? |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | colsovsky89 | 10/07/25 9:54 | Youtube is definitely slow. It may be some problem anywhere from your computer to their servers (ISP, etc.). This can be proved if you are in an area where it is slow: Some Youtube videos work well, while most are slow and sometimes do not load. Vi |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | scrabo | 10/07/25 23:12 | It most definitely is an issue with YouTube. I have a YouTube channel with several videos. My download speed is 10mb/second. I can't even test my own videos at 360p without waiting several minutes for them to fully load. I have no problems at all on |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | shibaaa | 10/07/26 13:46 | it is youtube fucking up, and if ur one of the few saying its our internet ur reatarded! Don't belive me??? just look at the numbers of how many people agree with ur ignorant ass's! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | clint9952 | 10/07/29 15:04 | it is a youtube problem.. i also have a fast connection not lower than 15mb.. this shouldn't even be a debate, we all know that youtube is restricting the speed- pinching a pretty penny is my guess. it didn't used to be like this. here's a good way t |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | NVOLEON | 10/07/29 16:43 | I've been having the same problem, takes forever to download a video. I leave it downloading and browse in another tab, it's ridiculous. If they are doing this to pinch pennies like some say, well that is just wrong. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | moshenatanlando | 10/07/30 8:51 | Someone mentioned that YT might be slower internationally, and I live in the Middle East,so maybe that effects? My download speed is 10MB, I do disc clean-ups once a week, defrag every day and all other videos download quickly, just not on YouTube. s |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | flguy123 | 10/07/30 15:11 | I have to agree, YouTube was really fucking slow today. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | eddyb6666 | 10/07/30 22:58 | WHAT PART OF FIX IT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND "YOUTUBE" , THEY GOT SO RICH AND DON,T CARE ABOUT THE COMMON MAN , FIRE EVERYBODY AT YOUTUBE AND HIRE SOMEONE THAT CAN FIX IT , THIS REALLY SUCKS , I HAVE TO PAUSE IT SO IT CAN LOAD AND BY THE TIME IT LOADS |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | leandro.todisco | 10/08/01 18:16 | Hi, I made a simple test here.I am on Brazil, and I have no problems with internet speed. (Don't tell me that the problem it is my fucking broadband).The test that I made it was:I connected through Hotspot Shield, with an IP from US. I put a video on |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | crazynick9600 | 10/08/01 19:02 | lol like kids are on the youtube forums looking for stuff like this, Chances are if they have internet they do inappropriate stuff anyways...but anyways. when youtube was ran by "youtube" i could load videos no problem....now that google took over i |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | leandro.todisco | 10/08/02 12:23 | On another test, only the video from outside my region it is slow, the ones from US for example.Any one has any clue of what is happening? Please don't tell stupid thinks like your computer is the problem, or your broadband is the problem, my compute |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | hydra000 | 10/08/02 20:39 | Agreed I dont know what they have done to it, but they are slowly destroying youtube, its very slow, doesnt matter how fast your connection is, constantly reloading the video, the ads load quickly but not the content, just blank screen or spinning wh |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | moshenatanlando | 10/08/02 21:38 | Hydra000, you are so right!!! But it seems its been going on for 6,7, or 8 days only. It was always slow, but just as I went this week making a new contract of 24 months from 5MB to 10MB!!! Hah! The joke is on me , but it proves someth |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | calypso22 | 10/08/03 4:33 | I really wonder if the dreaded Autoplay "function" which is on by default (whether we want it or not) is not having a major impact on bandwith. With all the millions of users, how many, at any given time, may have left their computer running with You |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | calypso22 | 10/08/03 4:34 | "Six or seven days" just about ties in with the introduction of Autoplay. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | calypso22 | 10/08/03 6:37 | Autoplay function has been fixed. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | Pete-o-pete | 10/08/03 9:17 | Oh why are there always retards who just can't understand that the problem is not on the users computer? It's CLEARLY youtube that is capping the speed to some regions, and it is not something to calm down about! |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | TestECull | 10/08/03 17:05 | Well atl east Autoplay is fixed. Now fix the servers. |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | funguus | 10/08/04 15:28 | I tried some US proxy sites. Simply browsing trough them, you don't have to deal with any proxies. On my 10 Mb line, which is at 9000 Mb for the moment, I opened the same 1080p video at the same time, one in proxy and one without, getting about twice |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | funguus | 10/08/04 15:54 | How stupid of me, lol, they use an other video player that apparently don't reach the same quality. I tried various others but the normal youtube player wont work through these sites. But if youtube is slow for you, pls try this, and tell us if it wo |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | sunni | 10/08/04 15:58 | I use two computers - a PC and a notebook on a wireless network. I basically only check YouTube messages now so am mainly on the notebook if I go to there, but I used to be able to watch fine on either machine. I'm in Australia and have a relativel |
| Re: why is you tube so fucking slow | megarudy99 | 10/08/04 20:26 | comon guys this is no help i mean my internet is so fast but my vid everywhere are slow |