Thread: Slow YouTube Even with 2Mb/s connection.

I have been getting slow YouTube buffering speeds recently. I have no clue why. Anyone has a solution?
My speedtest results are fine. 1.85 Mb/s download and 0.22 Mb/s upload.
The bandwidth is fine as you can see.

Help will be appreciated and rep will be added.
Thanx


And I download torrents at an average speed of 215 KBps.

With everything else turned off(even my Kaspersky Internet Security 2010) i have to wait for ages to get the video to start.



The link to my speedtest is ***. speedtest .net /result /583424718. png
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Thanks in advance!

I normally wait till buffering is completed. Even with 2 Mbps, there can be some lag.

Remove offline data and try.

I cleared cache.
Tried YouTube in opera,chrome,IE8,FF.
All in vain.

Thanks for the quick response though.

Also, all other sites work perfectly.
Except gmail.

Try Open DNS



Not sure how useful it will be.

removed. my bad.

Yeah i already use that.
I also tried switching between the preferred DNS
i.e. b/w
208.67.220.220
208.67.222.222


Not helped.
But as i said other sites work perfect so is it possible that MTNL blocks YouTube traffic?
I used orbit downloader to download stuff and videos of sites I get 150+kBps
But with YouTube i only get 10-17 kBps speeds.

Look at the screenshot.

From the screen shot you have posted... it looks like you have opened too many sites ( youtube & other also)...
Means when you are watching one video other sites & videos also sharing bandwidth which slows down net & overall experience suffer....
Try opening only one site ( youtube) at a time & tell me you feel any difference...

MTNL backbone is the culprit!!


I'm getting 350kbps+ on a 300kbps plan while steaming YouTube!! without any tweaks or open dns

mine isp is Reliance Metro Ethernet

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at times streaming stires not only youtube is slow .
i dunno exactly why that happens but its defo not mtnl its got something to do with the router

Suddenly all's well.
Has happened 3 times with me.

try speedbit video accelerator, it really helps to accelerate youtube and other video sites too, u dont have to wait for buffering, it streams the video at download speeds, or you can use another program Bywifi too to accelerate video playback.:6:

Originally Posted by xanezu

try speedbit video accelerator, it really helps to accelerate youtube and other video sites too, u dont have to wait for buffering, it streams the video at download speeds, or you can use another program Bywifi too to accelerate video playback.:6:

I too use SpeedBit Video Accelerator, It is amazing for youtube.

i suggest download the videos and then watch them as ur download speed is alright.

@xanzeu
thanks for the software i will try it.may be it will work on UL plan too!!
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Originally Posted by imrock

i suggest download the videos and then watch them as ur download speed is alright.

@xanzeu
thanks for the software i will try it.may be it will work on UL plan too!!
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if u are on window 7, then there is no problem in youtube streaming( thats wat i experienced after switching to win 7)....for xp users, speedbit is best......instant results...

Opera 10.51 Browser has internal video accelerator.
I am using it. Buffers very very fast

another option is to use feather option of youtube where there will be lowest latency is provided for streaming videos, hence lil or no buffering...

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

@mecyanide

a understanding of how youtube serves videos will help every ones.

When video is being watched first time in your area ( India ), video gets served directly from google USA servers ( v5.cache7.c.youtube.com ), you can see the hostname in the bottom status bar of firefox. when any body else in India trys to view the same video, it will get served from youtube india cache servers ( v5.lscacheX.c.youtube.com ) notice "ls" in the hostname . so quick trick that always worked for me is, as i watch mostly videos that usually not watched by others in india, is let video buffer for a bit, like 10 to 15 seconds. we can see from where its being served based on the hostname, if its served from USA servers, then refresh the page again in firefox, this time video gets served from India servers, and they load pretty fast

also another note, always use india based dns servers, open dns works really bad for youtube video, as open dns servers are based in USA, youtube will think that you are in USA and always tries to serve you from USA based servers, which will be very slow

Now a days opendns is getting slower and slower, switch to googledns
DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Originally Posted by merc782

@mecyanide

a understanding of how youtube serves videos will help every ones.

When video is being watched first time in your area ( India ), video gets served directly from google USA servers ( v5.cache7.c.youtube.com ), you can see the hostname in the bottom status bar of firefox. when any body else in India trys to view the same video, it will get served from youtube india cache servers ( v5.lscacheX.c.youtube.com ) notice "ls" in the hostname . so quick trick that always worked for me is, as i watch mostly videos that usually not watched by others in india, is let video buffer for a bit, like 10 to 15 seconds. we can see from where its being served based on the hostname, if its served from USA servers, then refresh the page again in firefox, this time video gets served from India servers, and they load pretty fast

also another note, always use india based dns servers, open dns works really bad for youtube video, as open dns servers are based in USA, youtube will think that you are in USA and always tries to serve you from USA based servers, which will be very slow

Good Post......
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But I do not think that the video serving from main youtube site buffers slow. As when I watch videos which are not even watch or are new, they also buffers very fast. I use speedbit Video accelerator. But even without it, there is no break between the start to end of the video for me.

Ya man I swear.. I have the same problem with utube, facebook,etc....
Even though I have a 1.5Mb/s Plan ! xD

I admit at times it feels like your running dial-up....sometimes it just doesn't respond. Don't know why! Other than that after 3-4 mins it starts going good here.

Originally Posted by Hunaid786

Ya man I swear.. I have the same problem with utube, facebook,etc....
Even though I have a 1.5Mb/s Plan ! xD

hey i hav a 512kb/s unlimited connection bt most of my videos stream widout stopping

Sumtimes d browser is also at fault
try using chrome

I don't see it as a browser problem. That's impossible. And NO I will not use that Chrome sh!t from google. I hate google.

And my videos stream perfectly also just at particular times say 8.30 am - 9 am or like 10 pm - 11 pm the connection goes very slow & a couple of other times...as in you have to refresh the page.