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Really slow loading of only Youtube movies

cherv1cherv1 Registered User regular
edited April 2007 in Games and Technology
Hi, I've posted this to see if you have any suggestions on why I am having problems watching movies on youtube. For a few weeks now, it has taken near to half an hour to load even a short movie. This problem appears to be just for youtube. I get good download speeds for downloading everything else.

Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be?

Thanks.

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  • n1t0n1t0 Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    is your isp through verizon?

    conspiracy theory that perhaps has to do with that lawsuit.....

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  • cherv1cherv1 Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    No, NTL UK. (I think Virgin Media now)

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  • Venkman90Venkman90 Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    cherv1 wrote: »
    No, NTL UK. (I think Virgin Media now)

    Ditto, had no problems with youtube though. The odd WoW DC (a know issue between Vivendi's Euro isp and Virgin)

    You using IE of FF? Any background stuff running?

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  • cherv1cherv1 Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    IE 7, no background stuff running (not torrents or anything), get good download speeds when I DO run torrents.... Dunno maybe I need to see if I have the latest version of flash?

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I've got the same problem, mostly in the evening.

    FF latest version, nothing else running. Provider is planet.nl

    It's weird.

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  • FirebrandFirebrand Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Youtube servers get really slow occasionally. A few movies wouldn't load at all yesterday all while other movies still on YT loaded fine. Came back a while later and they were working.

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  • supabeastsupabeast Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Right now Google is having a hard time giving YouTube enough bandwidth to meet the demand; it gets this way for everyone.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Yeah, it happens to everyone every now and then. It's amusing/incredibly irritating how it will only affect particular clips that you want to watch, too--one clip won't load at all, while ten others will load at satisfactory speeds.

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