Re: Is it me or youtube being slow at times?
BobMc4
Enthusiast - Level 2

Having just gotten FIOS five days ago, and still have an active Optimum Online connection, personally I see this as a FIOS problem. Never noticed the problem with OO, myself and two sons independently noticed a problem with FIOS. I find a group of videos that don't play well with FIOS, switch to OO they buffer fine. Back to FIOS, buffering stalls, video freezes etc.. Watch the same videos at work, no problems.

Just my observations.

Re: Is it me or youtube being slow at times?
jk1112
Enthusiast - Level 2

I have to agree with BobMc.  I have a FIOS connection and a Comcast connection.  On the comcast connection I can buffer 1080 HD youtube videos quickly and with no issues.  

Go to my FIOS connection and I can barely pull down a 480p stream.  It's been happening for months.  Especially during peak hours, I get multiple timeouts and massive packet loss on my FIOS connection.

Re: Is it me or youtube being slow at times?
bigm001
Enthusiast - Level 2

YouTube performance has worsened in the past week and there is intermittent buffering even at 240p and i am on the 75/35 tier. Refreshing the page doesn't even work sometimes . Even my download speeds and my general web browsing seems a bit slower and a bit laggy lately.  i always run Speedtest around 8 PM and for the past 2 weeks i am getting connected to a test server in Wichita Kansas and I am in Brooklyn NY. After releasing and renewing my DHCP lease several times, sometimes i get  connected to a local verizon DNS server and local test servers on Speedtest.net and sometimes not. For the money i am paying for this service each month, i should not have to be messing around with DHCP leases every time i connect to the internet to get useable perfromance. I am strongly considering cancelling FiOS.

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Re: Youtube buffering
sherorox
Enthusiast - Level 1

Hey guys. I too have recently been experiencing ON/OFF issues with the internet for some reason. My YouTube graph also shows a significant decline. I'm not sure why but it seems that Verizon itself may be having network problems if so many people are experiencing the same issue at the same time. I would like to hope that they have already realized this and are working on it as we speak.

This needs to be fixed ASAP!

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Re: Youtube buffering
jahnbon
Newbie
Just adding a "me too" to this thread. Had RCN broadband from 2001-2012, never a problem with youtube buffering. Switched to FIOS in December 2012, and all was fine until about a month or two ago, now it seems like every video buffers relentlessly, regardless of size or resolution. No other speed/streaming/buffering issues on other sites. VERY FRUSTRATING!!
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Re: Is Verizon Fios throttling down Youtube streaming?
avdp
Newbie

I have the same problem.  Youtube is terribly slow SLOW SLOW at home on Fios.  It is fine anywhere else,  including my ipad on LTE from AT&T at the same time.  So it's not youtube,  it's fios.   Yet,  other sites (i.e. Netflix) are fine.  So Verizon is doing something funny with youtube.   Are Verizon and Google fighting over something?  I can't track of which corporation wants to screw with which other corporation anymore.

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Re: Youtube buffering
JayPulsar
Newbie

I'm also having Buffering issues with Youtube and other sites like Netflix. Turning on the Bitrate monitor on the Youtube player shows my Bitrate dropping randomly. Youtube's and Netflix's auto-adapting video quality always puts me below 480p quality which shouldn't happen on a 15/5 plan. Any idea's?

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Youtube streaming painstakingly slow
TrimBalim
Enthusiast - Level 1

I created  a new thread to bring attention to this issue. It's been horribly slow the past two weeks, only youtube, nothing else.

I've read some people say to update DNS servers, I was hoping someone would point me in the right direction with instructions. Is this done on the router or on each individual computer?

Re: Youtube buffering
etcher
Enthusiast - Level 2

I posted this a little while ago in the DSL forum after someone else mentioned youtube issues also.

"I switched from cable to Fios 50/25 recently. I never had a problem with loading youtube videos with cable, but as soon as I switched it has been hard for me to even get videos at the lowest quality. I thought maybe it was just coincidence and the youtube servers became slow at the same time I switched, BUT if I have my mobile phone connected through my Fios wifi I can't get the videos to play very well, but the second I turn off wifi and the 4G kicks in the video plays fine."

I noticed there are some other people from my area, Virginia Beach, VA with the same problem. I just ran next door to my neighbors house with Cox Cable and the same videos I tried playing at my house are working with no problems.

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Re: Is it me or youtube being slow at times?
etcher
Enthusiast - Level 2

When I can't load a youtube video on my desktop I'll switch to my phone and check to see if it is youtube or FIOS by switch between wifi and 4G. When on wifi the video stalls, but as soon as I switch to 4G it loads faster than my desktop.

I also ran to my next door neighbor's house with Cox Cable and the same videos load fine at his house in 1080 HD!

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