Lame Rant--Youtube

[sandorski]

WTF is going on with Youtube? Is it just me or do 9(ish) out of 10 Vids these days seem to need to Pause after a short time and sometimes just stop Loading altogether? Seemed to just start the last Week or so.

POAKB(Pissed Off At Key Board)

 

[Quiksilver]

Eh, Youtube had been needing to be buffered constantly for me for like the last several months.

I'll usually get to watch like 10 seconds of video before it stops to buffer...

 

[AndroidVageta]

Same here...Ive got 25mb internet, so small videos used to load instantly...now Im happy if I can get a simple video loaded after refreshing 10 times...

 

[Juddog]

Same here as above. I can visit speedtest.net and get 32 mbps then I go to youtube and have to pause it 10 minutes to watch a 4 minute video. Then I can hop over to another site like hulu and have no problems at all.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

It seems worse with Comcast IMO.

 

[CRXican]

Seems to happen rather frequently. Certainly annoying.

 

[zCypher]

Seems to work just fine for me at home, but at work it's almost impossible to youtube, and there are no access restrictions.

edit: and my home connection is a measly 7.5mbps

 

[Fritzo]

Yeah, same problem. I think they're undergoing growing pains after that last update.

 

[mfenn]

Shit happens for me too.

 

[coldmeat]

I don't notice it at all. It did this for me a while back but it hasn't happened once for months.

 

[Pollock]

I like how they took the effort to move the volume slider, but it still takes a fucking eternity to buffer.

 

[sandorski]

I like how they took the effort to move the volume slider, but it still takes a fucking eternity to buffer.

I like the Volume change, but ya.

 

[thescreensavers]

youtube servers suck, its been known they need to freaking fix it!

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Sometimes if you increase the quality it loads much faster

Presumably the files are on different servers.