Recently I've noticed that youtube videos buffers a lot slower and I can't watch HD without letting it buffer all the way before watching it.
I got netlimiter to check if all my bandwidth was being used and to my surprise youtube only uses 100-150Kbps when buffering 1 video in HD.
[B]However,[/B] if I open the same video in 10 tabs at the same time it uses all my bandwidth up to 900kbps so it can't be my ISP throttling right?
Does anyone else experience the same issue? Possible fix?
Changing browser doesn't work by the way.
YouTube has recently started throtterling videos, I believe they are just doing it to consume less peak bandwidth, however your case seems to be abit more severer in the sense of much slower speeds. The speeds you quoted I get the same on any settings but I still can watch 1080p video's just about okay, (grey bar just beating the red par ;p)
Got AdBlocker Plus ? If not get it, it will get rid of all those horrible youtube video adverts and adverts that pop up in the video, would use less bandwidth as well.
Another problem is that not all YT videos are hosted on the same server. Some servers are much worse than others when streaming video.
Youtube has always been like this for me. My connection seems to hover around 20Mbps, but it takes ages to buffer a video (sometimes video quality doesn't matter). sometimes up to 3x the length of the video itself.
Then again, videos on popular channels (regardless of account type) always load nearly instantly. It's really unbalanced.
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