Is YouTube slower than shit lately? - GoFuckYourself.com

xenigo · 11-18-2009, 07:59 PM

I'm about to fucking shoot myself. I'm trying to watch some videos on YouTube and the mother fucking thing won't stop buffering. Any video I watch buffers like a fucking bitch. I'm on a 25 megabit fiber connection and my shit is lightning quick, but it seems YouTube might be getting their shit blown up or something.

Is YouTube short on bandwidth these days or what? It's kind of pissing me off.

d-null · 11-18-2009, 08:03 PM

I've noticed some glitchiness lately too

also their new interface (new meaning a few months back) totally sucks, and ruins the whole youtube interactive experience

sortie · 11-18-2009, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xenigo

I'm about to fucking shoot myself. I'm trying to watch some videos on YouTube and the mother fucking thing won't stop buffering. Any video I watch buffers like a fucking bitch. I'm on a 25 megabit fiber connection and my shit is lightning quick, but it seems YouTube might be getting their shit blown up or something.

Is YouTube short on bandwidth these days or what? It's kind of pissing me off.

Happens to me all the time, but my connection has sucked sometimes so I figure
it's me. But when I do a speed test it shows that I should have fast video play.

Sometimes I think it's the video encoding.
High quality video conversion can expand some videos to the point to where it's
impossible to download as fast as it plays.

I found that converting a .wmv file to a .flv in high quality can sometimes
make a huge file. So I like to only upload mpeg or avi to youtube.

Barefootsies · 11-18-2009, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d-null

also their new interface (new meaning a few months back) totally sucks, and ruins the whole youtube interactive experience

Agreed.

Ace_luffy · 11-18-2009, 09:28 PM

great promo

...

d-null · 11-18-2009, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ace_luffy

great promo

...

FrozenJag · 11-18-2009, 10:10 PM

Its super fast most of the time but like you say sometimes out of nowhere it wont stop buffering for anything. Im on 20mbps down too. Sure glad they think they can now handle hd vids. :x

TidalWave · 11-18-2009, 10:12 PM

its always fucking slow for me and i have 15mbps internet with no issues elsewhere, and in a major metro area with good routing.

crappy youtube

Jakez · 11-18-2009, 10:32 PM

It's definitely not anyones personal internet connection, I've been whining about this shit recently too, the video is either fully loaded (red bar 100%) and it will still buffer every 5 seconds, or it will just load slow as fuck.

Poindexterity · 11-18-2009, 11:21 PM

i have noticed this as well

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 11-19-2009, 12:52 AM

same happening here, i find it happens on the odd video, but moving on to another video will usually work fine. weird, but i know what you're talking about fully.

georgeyw · 11-19-2009, 12:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d-null

I've noticed some glitchiness lately too

also their new interface (new meaning a few months back) totally sucks, and ruins the whole youtube interactive experience

Tell me about it. I've noticed a huge traffic and revenue loss which follows the change over. Really pisses me off that they have madethe channels such a fucking nightmare now.

EDepth · 11-19-2009, 01:13 AM

I had friends who used to always complain about how the videos always buffered and I never had problems, now its always buffering for me and videos hardly play back. Everything else is fine though. Oh wells.

d-null · 11-19-2009, 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by georgeyw

Tell me about it. I've noticed a huge traffic and revenue loss which follows the change over. Really pisses me off that they have madethe channels such a fucking nightmare now.

it's really sad that they did that

I bet the people that read and interact with the comments has dropped over 50%, maybe they wanted that to happen?

georgeyw · 11-19-2009, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d-null

it's really sad that they did that

I bet the people that read and interact with the comments has dropped over 50%, maybe they wanted that to happen?

I did read somewhere that it was implemented to save on bandwidth - but I really don't see how that is possible.

I never look at peoples channel pages now because it's such a shit fight. Shame really as I use to come across some very interesting videos.

Did you notice that all user input on the new channel layouts has been negative yet no one at youtube has listened.

Just on the 50% drop - youtube was boasting about serving 1 billion video views a week not long ago - wonder if the new layout has caused that to drop....

tranza · 11-19-2009, 10:42 AM

I've noticed that too!

Scott McD · 11-19-2009, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ace_luffy

great promo

...

11-18-2009, 07:59 PM	#1
xenigo Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 8,067	Is YouTube slower than shit lately? I'm about to fucking shoot myself. I'm trying to watch some videos on YouTube and the mother fucking thing won't stop buffering. Any video I watch buffers like a fucking bitch. I'm on a 25 megabit fiber connection and my shit is lightning quick, but it seems YouTube might be getting their shit blown up or something. Is YouTube short on bandwidth these days or what? It's kind of pissing me off.

11-18-2009, 09:28 PM	#5
Ace_luffy www.creationcrew.com Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: CREATIONCREW.COM CREATIONCREW.COM CREATIONCREW.COM CREATIONCREW.COM CREATIONCREW.COM CREATIONCREW.COM Posts: 12,111	great promo ... __________________ ++ Adult and Mainstream Websites Designs \| 10 banners for only $50 \| html5 Banners ++ email : [email protected] Telegram : https://t.me/creationcrew \| HTML5/Responsive Site - Div/CSS - ElevatedX - NATs - Wordpress

11-18-2009, 10:12 PM	#8
TidalWave Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,706	its always fucking slow for me and i have 15mbps internet with no issues elsewhere, and in a major metro area with good routing. crappy youtube __________________ www.SwiftNode.com

11-18-2009, 10:32 PM	#9
Jakez Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oddfuturewolfgangkillthemall!!!!!!! Posts: 5,656	It's definitely not anyones personal internet connection, I've been whining about this shit recently too, the video is either fully loaded (red bar 100%) and it will still buffer every 5 seconds, or it will just load slow as fuck. __________________ [email protected] - jakezdumb - 573689400 Killuminati

11-19-2009, 01:13 AM	#13
EDepth Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 510	I had friends who used to always complain about how the videos always buffered and I never had problems, now its always buffering for me and videos hardly play back. Everything else is fine though. Oh wells. __________________ ICQ: 275335837

11-18-2009, 08:03 PM	#2
d-null . . . Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NY Posts: 13,724	I've noticed some glitchiness lately too also their new interface (new meaning a few months back) totally sucks, and ruins the whole youtube interactive experience

11-18-2009, 10:10 PM	#7
FrozenJag Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,763	Its super fast most of the time but like you say sometimes out of nowhere it wont stop buffering for anything. Im on 20mbps down too. Sure glad they think they can now handle hd vids. :x

11-18-2009, 11:21 PM	#10
Poindexterity Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: America's butthole, TX Posts: 882	i have noticed this as well

11-19-2009, 12:52 AM	#11
Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life (felis madjewicus) Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In Mom & Dad's Basement Posts: 20,368	same happening here, i find it happens on the odd video, but moving on to another video will usually work fine. weird, but i know what you're talking about fully.

11-19-2009, 10:42 AM	#16
tranza ICQ: 197-556-237 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: BRASIL !!! Posts: 57,559	I've noticed that too! __________________ I'm just a newbie.