Time from opening a youtube page to seeing video?

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richms

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#71311 8-Nov-2010 19:27

Recently I have been finding that its 30-45 seconds before I even see the red line start to buffer when opening youtube or hitting play on an embedded video.

What do other people find is the delay? To be honest, its taking so long that I cant be bothered with embeds. When I see other people doing a screencast over ustream, theirs start straight away, yet I get similar performance on mums xnet connection.

How do others find it?

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#401826 8-Nov-2010 19:55

Not sure if it's a similar issue but when I pause a youtube video and press play again it wont play unless the slider is dragged a little bit.

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#401858 8-Nov-2010 21:00

Rich maybe you could post a link to a sample so we are all on a similar page.

Like this

Which took about 2-3sec here on Telecom

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#401878 8-Nov-2010 21:52

On that one I only saw 12 seconds, which is tollerable but still pretty poor.

If I am in firefox the staus bar just cycles between connecting to and waiting for and something .google and something else.

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#401882 8-Nov-2010 22:04

Pretty near instant here on Telecom.

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#401885 8-Nov-2010 22:18

rscole86: Pretty near instant here on Telecom.

Same here.

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#401912 9-Nov-2010 06:50

Whats the resources on the puter like, flash has been getting heavier and heavier bloated and bloatader and leaks like a sieve, if the kids play lots of flash based games, which they do a lot, then even this quad core with 4Gig or RAM crashs with leaks, its sad. You may be seeing the different way IE and FF handle flash apps

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#402178 9-Nov-2010 15:55

The PC is heavily taxed as it only has 4 gigs on it and I have several things open, but while its screwing around redirecting or whatever, there is no heavy disc access.

Oh to have more ram...

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#402184 9-Nov-2010 15:58

richms: The PC is heavily taxed as it only has 4 gigs on it and I have several things open, but while its screwing around redirecting or whatever, there is no heavy disc access.

Oh to have more ram...

4GB of RAM is quite a lot. Unless you have some seriously intensive apps open it should be fine.

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#402192 9-Nov-2010 16:03

Yes, I do, I have outlook, 3 firefoxes, a couple of IE's sometimes and assorted other stuff that uses less than 200 megs each. I usually use the IE's to play youtubes since they seem to fullscreen better than firefox, shame that adobe still havent fixed the longstanding issue that you cant swap away from the fullscreen flash to do other stuff on the second screen.

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#402193 9-Nov-2010 16:04

That sample video started "instantly" on TelstraClear. Which ISP are you with, richms?

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#402198 9-Nov-2010 16:07

Slingshot. I think its their lame proxy doing the endless looping of requests since it has not happened on the flatmates telecom one, rathar than a problem with youtube or the browser.

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#402203 9-Nov-2010 16:15

Noticed the same thing on vodafone recently, something like a song took a minute to start playing but then shot straight to having 50% already buffered when it finally started playing

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#402384 9-Nov-2010 22:15

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rscole86: Pretty near instant here on Telecom.

Same here.