General : YouTube Buffering Issues...

[blue166]

Hi all,

Just wondering if you guys are experiencing horrible buffereing on YouTube when streaming 720p and 1080p vids?

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by blue166

Hi all,

Just wondering if you guys are experiencing horrible buffereing on YouTube when streaming 720p and 1080p vids?

I have given up using youtube on my super fast 100 meg .

[General Maximus]

there is another thread in which this has been discussed at length but suffice to say that there is a big problem and I think it is something to do with VMs youtube cache servers.

[johnholmes]

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...y/td-p/1481680

[blue166]

Yay.

This story has made the register.

[Zee]

Originally Posted by johnholmes

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...y/td-p/1481680

Here is the new link:

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...2/td-p/1556642

Wow, that is class! "Intermittent buffering when trying to stream video from some sites". How about "It's dire most of the time".

[Horace]

It's dire during peak 6pm - 10pm and has been for a long time. Virgin is broadband for vampires. Jumping ship as soon as a viable alternative is available to a provider that doesn't prioritise headline speed to the detriment of the whole network.

[mcmanic]

just gone 60meg today and youtube vids was fine during the day with a nice buffer, now at 5.15 all youtube vids i'm having to wait to load and when it does the dreaded buffer every few seconds.

well done Virgin......................NOT!

[Zee]

all do yourselves a favour and switch of a fibre broadband service like BT Infinity or Sky Fibre. I did and never have any buffering from it, ever.

[craigj2k12]

+1 on what Zee said

ironically if you download the video using keepvid it downloads in one and funnily if you post a link on Facebook it plays better also. Youtube for me also crap on VM

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open dns helps also

[craigj2k12]

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

ironically if you download the video using keepvid it downloads in one

Well yeah, the problem is Virgin->YouTube, with keepvid, the video is going from YouTube->KeepVid->Virgin bypassing the bottleneck

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

funnily if you post a link on Facebook it plays better also.

Probably facebook looking up the URL, bypassing Virgin's cache server

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

open dns helps also

I don't think it does, but happy to be proved wrong

Originally Posted by craigj2k12

Well yeah, the problem is Virgin->YouTube, with keepvid, the video is going from YouTube->KeepVid->Virgin bypassing the bottleneck



Probably facebook looking up the URL, bypassing Virgin's cache server




I don't think it does, but happy to be proved wrong

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It does for me

[craigj2k12]

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