Youtube videos not loading worth a fukk.

[smackaholic]

About the time we dropped Dish/DSL and went to the cable bundle, youtube vids load for shit. Other web site videos load OK, pron loads OK (thank you jesus).

does youtube use some sort of special protocol or something?

occasionally, they load fine, but, usually they either fail completely or just partially. clicking past the spot where it stops loading on the time bar, sometimes kicks it back into gear.

this happens on my stone age desktop which is wired directly and my daughters toshiba laptop and our almost new netbook. both these machines are running windows 7. i use mozilla browser on all.

[Goober McTuber]

About the time we dropped Dish/DSL and went to the cable bundle, youtube vids load for shit. Other web site videos load OK, pron loads OK (thank you jesus).

does youtube use some sort of special protocol or something?

occasionally, they load fine, but, usually they either fail completely or just partially. clicking past the spot where it stops loading on the time bar, sometimes kicks it back into gear.

this happens on my stone age desktop which is wired directly and my daughters toshiba laptop and our almost new netbook. both these machines are running windows 7. i use mozilla browser on all.

Your daughter loads porn on her laptop? How old is she? (Diego wants to know).

[Screw_Michigan]

About the time we dropped Dish/DSL and went to the cable bundle, youtube vids load for shit. Other web site videos load OK, pron loads OK (thank you jesus).

does youtube use some sort of special protocol or something?

occasionally, they load fine, but, usually they either fail completely or just partially. clicking past the spot where it stops loading on the time bar, sometimes kicks it back into gear.

this happens on my stone age desktop which is wired directly and my daughters toshiba laptop and our almost new netbook. both these machines are running windows 7. i use mozilla browser on all.

What level of service/bandwidth are you paying for with your cable internet? I'm in the same situation as you, many times youtube videos load for shit at home, but I figured that's because I'm paying for, and getting, the cheapest broadband internet possible so I can keep my cable bill as manageable as possible.

[Goober McTuber]

About the time we dropped Dish/DSL and went to the cable bundle, youtube vids load for shit. Other web site videos load OK, pron loads OK (thank you jesus).

does youtube use some sort of special protocol or something?

occasionally, they load fine, but, usually they either fail completely or just partially. clicking past the spot where it stops loading on the time bar, sometimes kicks it back into gear.

this happens on my stone age desktop which is wired directly and my daughters toshiba laptop and our almost new netbook. both these machines are running windows 7. i use mozilla browser on all.

I'm in the same situation as you

That's right. You're both cheap, penny-pinching dumbfucks.

[Screw_Michigan]

Why? Because I get the best value for my dollar?

[Goober McTuber]

Why? Because I get the best value for my dollar?

I'm paying for, and getting, the cheapest broadband internet possible

Pay more than a dollar, you might get something of value.

[indyfrisco]

Pay more than a dollar, you might get something of value.

Libs have to practice what they preach...everyone should just have to scrape by. Props to Screwball for walking the walk.

[Screw_Michigan]

Pay more than a dollar, you might get something of value.

Libs have to practice what they preach...everyone should just have to scrape by. Props to Screwball for walking the walk.

Sorry, I'm not paying over $100 a month in a cable bill so I can have "better quality" internet.

[ElTaco]

To be honest, most of the time, I watch YouTube on my phone. Partially this is because I can't access it at work.

In terms of being special, I don't think its very special. They use Flash and HTML5 to display their videos. I believe the idea is that Flash isn't a public standard, while HTML5 is so Google wants to switch to HTML5, which should also enable it to offer a single website for browsers, phones and devices, such as their android phones and the ChromeOS laptop may release soon, as well as tablets. A while ago Google did come out to say that they are not going to Abondone Flash for HTML5, but their long term goal is to use WEBM
They offer different formats, depending on the client and the resolution you wish to view the video on and what the author selected. If you have shitty bandwidth, you may want to put your video quality to something closer to standard. This will change the resolution, but the size/bandwidth requirements should also go down, allowing your browser to load the video faster.

Honestly, for most videos, I doubt that quality on a laptop or tablet screen will matter much. Do I really need to watch some 30 second segment in 1080p resolution? I don't think so. On the other hand, Google / Youtube is putting out a lot of new streaming stuff that works on TVs and large screens and on there it may make a difference, but if you plan on replacing your TV service with online solutions (something we've discussed in other posts), you may want to bump your bandwidth a bit. I think the big difference between YouTube and a lot of other stuff, like your pron is the HD quality of lot of the videos. A ton of the content I see online, including the occasional adult material that I may have seen, is usually in SD quality, while Youtube has made a big push to serve stuff in HD. Again, setting your preferences to SD may fix some of your issues.

The Highest quality of Videos are using WebM format (http://www.webmproject.org/) which is supposed by all the major open source browsers and even by IE9 using a plugin. Right now only some of the higher HD content is using WebM.


In terms of figuring out the cause of the speed issue, there is a few steps you can take to figure out what may be the problem. One is to stream some videos and watch your router to see how much traffic it is processing. Depending on your SOHO router, you may be able to use some open source network monitoring tool to get an idea of your bandwidth on your WAN line. Our provider is fairly shitty and doesn't offer a speed upgrade and I've noticed that if I combine anything other than regular browsing with Hulu or Netflix, the video/downloads suffer big time.
Another option is to enable QOS on your home router. This helps tremendously for audio/video applications. Probably the biggest success story I've seen was setting up VOIP users for our company. The ones with older routers had issues, which is kind of odd, considering that most voip protocols only use ~60kbps of traffic, yet a bunch of people had issues until I dialed in, enabled QOS for VOIP and bam, no more problems. You could do the same thing for streaming protocols which may help you if you are competing for bandwidth with crap that your kids may be downloading. Depending on your router, you may even be able to guarantee certain amount of your bandwidth to specific traffic, although those tend to be features on more expensive routers from Cisco.

[Goober McTuber]

http://www.eporner.com has some excellent adult material in HD. I swear you can see the little swimmers making their way across the ladies' faces.

[Dinsdale]

On your wired desktop, go to Speedtest.net, or any other online speed test site (there's about a billionteen of them). Make sure the throughput you're getting is what you're paying for (although with a home internet router, especially one running QOS, you probably will only see about 90-95% of the actual speed, which is fine).

Another question, inaddition to El Taco's always-wonderful suggestions -- is your wireless AP/router secured? If it's not, then I think we might have found your problem (your neighbors). And occasionally, while rarely (very rarely) an issue, some people get a little carried away with the encription, which can slow things down a bit. I generally just run good old WEP (Wired Equivalent Protocol, a misnomer if ever there was one), and if the router has an option for "only allow guest logon internet access," or some such shit, enable it.