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#811288 4-May-2013 18:49

johnr: Update:

Please let us know how YouTube is this weekend please

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#811301 4-May-2013 19:21

OK thanks for letting me know

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#813541 8-May-2013 10:18

Still having issues here. Will try out that au.youtube trick.

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#816442 12-May-2013 21:48

As a temporary fix, set the country settings to Worldwde. Not a solution, but a temporary fix. It works.

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#816450 12-May-2013 22:22

Hmm, have been hearing complaints from people at work on the vodafone dsl connection about youtube recently. I will have a play tomorrow and see how it goes for me.

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#816643 13-May-2013 12:12

I got 99 problems and slow buffering on Youtube is one.

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#816999 13-May-2013 19:55

G'day Folks

Been having the Youtube buffering problem for a while now too and it's getting worse.

Am connecting via a Vodafone R205.

Talking with a mate last Friday who uses Telstra Clear cable and he mentioned the same thing.

Dunno if the following's related at all but thought might be worth mentioning:

I don't use Facebook but had friends staying over the weekend who do. They commented that most times when they tried to open a new page, it would load to about 20% and then hang. Eventually, after hitting the reload button a number of times the Facebook page would finally open.

Cheers, Gobit

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#821207 17-May-2013 14:55

2 good fixes for this annoyance.

http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1cpkjb/lpt_has_youtube_been_ungodly_slow_for_you_lately/

and:
http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-windows-guide/

They both worked for me : ))

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#821209 17-May-2013 15:01

The first link is only good for Chrome users.

The second link may or may not work depending on your ISP. Remember some New Zealand ISPs have their own Google/YouTube cache installed inside their network.

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#821226 17-May-2013 15:36

rmmidgley: 2 good fixes for this annoyance.

http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1cpkjb/lpt_has_youtube_been_ungodly_slow_for_you_lately/

and:
http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-windows-guide/

They both worked for me : ))

The second link works well on Woosh Wireless where 360p was unwatchable and now is quite good, even 480p is reasonable. (HD is too much to expect from Woosh wireless).

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#821230 17-May-2013 15:42

I was watching some Youtube last night and have both Telecom and VF cable (only 15/2) in my house. I was using VF cable and noticed it was buffering a fair bit on a SD video so I stopped, change my gateway address to the DSL router and started it again. I was quite surprised to see the progress bar whizz across to the end well ahead of the current play position.

Of course there are many factors in play here including cable or DSL saturation, backhaul capacity and upstream capacity, but it was interesting nevertheless to see the big difference in performance at that time for that particular video.

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#821267 17-May-2013 16:40

Works suckky adsl 1 can only handle 720 on a good day with a tailwind, but noone here has been complaining about youtube on vodafone dsl.

im not sure if the dns here is redirecting to vodafone or doing its own lookups, but no complaints

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#821301 17-May-2013 18:10

At work I have 100Mbs symmetric via Citylink to FX with 100Mbs guaranteed national and 1Mbs guaranteed international (but can burst up to 10Mbs) and YouTube runs fine.

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#823228 21-May-2013 22:02

So I stumbled across this thread because I'm looking into my own YouTube buffering troubles.

We're on a Warpspeed plan. Vimeo, Daily Motion and other video sites are working fine. But YouTube appears to always pause and buffer the first half of the videos we load. It's been a noticeable issue the last 4 weeks or so.

I tried the Chrome fix suggested above with no joy. It affects all devices in the household including iPads and Apple TV.

Oddly enough - I can watch YouTube fine on my phone through 3G...

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#823284 21-May-2013 23:47

Cybergangster: So I stumbled across this thread because I'm looking into my own YouTube buffering troubles.

We're on a Warpspeed plan. Vimeo, Daily Motion and other video sites are working fine. But YouTube appears to always pause and buffer the first half of the videos we load. It's been a noticeable issue the last 4 weeks or so.

I tried the Chrome fix suggested above with no joy. It affects all devices in the household including iPads and Apple TV.

Oddly enough - I can watch YouTube fine on my phone through 3G...

I have tried both fixes posted earlier, the Firewall one had no effect, and the disable flash plugin just resulted in You Tube saying Google chrome didn't have flash installed.

Three computers on ethernet, two tablets on a WiFi connection to the Cable Modem (1 Windows 8 Pro, the other Android Honey Comb 4) and my Andriod phone all have this buffering problem with You Tube. All other streaming video sites are fine on all these computers and cell phone.

Seems like Vodafone have given up/dont really care...

So much for all their saying It's going to be a LOT Better now that we own Telstra Clear.

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