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Youtube been pretty much unusable for anyone else?

TwiceOver

TwiceOver

Lifer
The "Man of Steel" trailer I can stream at full 1080. But pretty much any other video spends more time buffering than playing. Also noticed that my play store updates for my phone take several minutes to download.

Reset everything along the chain, all is good there. Liveleak videos play fine and buffer fast. I tried the content delivery network firewall hack, that didn't help at all.

Ugh...
 
It's actually gotten better for me over the last week or so. It went from unusable to merely annoying. It's not as good as it was a year ago.
 
yes its crap and there have been many other threads on it

this is me streaming a HD video on Vimeo averages ~25Mbps
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youtube man of steel trailer - 10x slower. same connection GG YT GG
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Trying to use Youtube right now. Literally, NOTHING is happening. Page opens, there's the video, all the comments, all the related videos, and yet the video NEVER PLAYS. No queueing, no streaming, nothing. Just will not play. Fuck this free service, I'm sick of it!
 
Triumph said:
Trying to use Youtube right now. Literally, NOTHING is happening. Page opens, there's the video, all the comments, all the related videos, and yet the video NEVER PLAYS. No queueing, no streaming, nothing. Just will not play. Fuck this free service, I'm sick of it!
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What video? I will try.
 
Triumph said:
Trying to use Youtube right now. Literally, NOTHING is happening. Page opens, there's the video, all the comments, all the related videos, and yet the video NEVER PLAYS. No queueing, no streaming, nothing. Just will not play. Fuck this free service, I'm sick of it!
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I got that a lot. Then I stopped trying. No YouTube clicking in weeks.
 
Yes, omg yes. I swear to god it's been awful lately. I even tried changing DNS config's and shit. It's so bad that I wish it would just die already. It's time we had a new video service take it's place anyway.
 
id like to see a peer-to-peer based video network.. like skype used to be but youtube content. the videos would always load instantly.
 
I felt lately that there were problems for a few videos but not in others. I had to refresh the page to restart everything and sometimes that worked.
 
Yeah its been awful. I think there was a thread where people figured out a way to get it to work well but I didn't try it. Probably one of the ones linked, or using the proxy.

I wish Ars or someone would look into this as there either appears to be some filtering or hangup somewhere that is causing this as people have been able to work around it.
 
Triumph said:
Trying to use Youtube right now. Literally, NOTHING is happening. Page opens, there's the video, all the comments, all the related videos, and yet the video NEVER PLAYS. No queueing, no streaming, nothing. Just will not play. Fuck this free service, I'm sick of it!
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this happens to me at work, but i figured it was cause they were blocking something

just refreshing the page over and over normally fixes it
 
Just for the record, I use FIOS. Been having problems for months, been getting worse. I'm highly aggravated by this.
 
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