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Why are YouTube videos taking longer to load?
YouTube videos have been taking a lot longer to load, for the past month or so. I can remember when the video would start playing almost immediately when I clicked Play, but now it takes up to 20 seconds to load first. It's not a huge problem, but it's a nuisance.
It shouldn't be a connection issue because Vimeo and Viddler, for example, still start playing almost immediately. Same thing happens in FIrefox & Chrome.
It shouldn't be a connection issue because Vimeo and Viddler, for example, still start playing almost immediately. Same thing happens in FIrefox & Chrome.
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Inappropriate?Do you find this happens for both YouTube.com and embedded videos on other websites? Or more one or the other?
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Inappropriate?Fast response.. ! Just found a random embedded video - it happens on both embedded and YouTube site pages. -
Inappropriate?Hm, I'm pretty familiar with how the video player works and I can't say I know why your videos take longer to load now. It isn't supposed to be slow and I haven't heard of any unusual problems.
If other websites work the only thing that I think could be wrong is the connection from your computer to the video source. Perhaps the ISP throttles bandwidth to YouTube video servers. I'm not sure, anything I think up would only be a guess.
I wish I could say for sure. -
Inappropriate?I'm downloading Obama's education speech (HD) off of YouTube, and at first I was getting the usual 200K. Now, it's hovering at around 84K. I think AT&T (my bastard of an ISP) is throttling traffic from YouTube as well. Are you on AT&T?
I’m angry at AT&T...again
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