Why is Youtube so slow?

Azagoth · ‎01-08-2007

My speed is normal, all other sites work fine yet Youtube is coming down at these speeds.

It's taken 10 minutes for a video that's only 3:36 long to get halfway loaded. Pretty sure Youtube should be at linespeed.

Oldjim · ‎15-06-2007

It's that video.
Changed the resolution from 480 to 720HD and no problem

rongtw · ‎01-12-2010

yup old jim , streaming just about any vid in HD is a problem

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32110 · ‎30-04-2009

Although synced at 11M with download speed tests of about 10M I find HD Youtube downloads very slow, needing constant bufferin :'(g.

stephenw10 · ‎14-04-2011

Are you guys sure you're not running out of CPU? HD flash video requires a surprisingly powerful machine.
It seems a shame that flash hardware acceleration only seems to support graphics cards released in the last five minutes! It's clear that older machines would benefit the most.

Bah!
My own main desktop is a pleasure to use for everything (admittedly nothing too hard!) I do from day to day but struggles at 480p on YouTube.
Steve

VileReynard · ‎01-09-2007

Get a Firefox plugin that allows you to download YouTube videos.
Then play from disk.

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Epyon · ‎31-03-2011

Mine is dodgy on 360p but fine on any other res.