Anyone been having issues with Youtube speed in the past couple months? Recently it seems quite rare that I can watch a video with out it pausing to buffer.

I would like to think it's not my connection speed. I can d/l at 1 MB/s (that's 1 megabyte, not megabit) if the source puts out fast enough.

Sometimes the video loads really quick, other really slow. Often I'll have to pause it myself for a 20 sec to a couple minutes depending on the length of the video.

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Second youtube issue. Sometimes even thought the video is well buffered or fully downloaded, it will just stop about 3/4 of the way through. I have to refresh the page and manually move the slide to where it left off.

Youtube is turning into yousuck for me...


/rant

Probably just normal youtube stupidness. It has always been slow as fuck for me. It's pathetic when a 5 minute 720p HD video takes 10 minutes to fully load. Surely it can't be more than 40-50mb in size, maybe smaller with all the ridiculous compression that youtube puts it through. I can download a file of that size in half that time.

I guess their servers are just getting more and more raped all the time.