Youtube - Slow or Not Starting

Why on if I go to a youtube proxy site 1080p videos start instantly and I can scan the video as if it was a local file on my computer.

...but sometimes but when using the regular youtube site the videos either do not start or start and occasionally buffer. In this happens at any time of the day.

Overloaded cdn or route for how youtube is reached via virgins network

Never noticed it before using 3 seperate connections here in Belfast.

A friend of mine has this and uses Chrome. They find using magic actions solves it every time.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magic-acti...

Once installed load a youtube video, go into the settings and enable "Speed Booster - Better video preloading / buffering"

You can disable all the other settings.

I do not know if it'll help but it's worth a shot given theirs aways buffered before on VM. It seems this add on makes the loading of videos much more aggressive.

Virgin are recommending using a proxy but what free proxies are there for use since Virgin did away with all theirs?

Edited by deleted (Sat 06-Sep-14 13:14:23)

In reply to a post by JimKirk363:

Virgin are recommending using a proxy but what free proxies are there for use since Virgin did away with all theirs?

Virgin are recommending their customers use a proxy website because without youtube won't work well? [censored]

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

In reply to a post by JimKirk363:

Virgin are recommending using a proxy but what free proxies are there for use since Virgin did away with all theirs?

http://www.proxy4free.com/list/webproxy1.html

Quite a few!

But why should we have to use a proxy site in the first place, its not like youtube is banned.

Maybe it's a workaround until Virgin manage to fix the problem

I'm glad I'm not the only one with this issue.

It started at roughly the same time as we had a new housemate move in so I was trying to find a way of seeing if he's just completely torrenting stuff 24/7 but the router itself doesn't seem to show particular heavy usage.

I'm in Exeter though - and all the students have just come back to Uni so maybe it is the local network being completely overloaded.

I'm also finding online gaming is suffering - can be fine for a bit, and then suddenly latency shoots up and makes it unplayable.

Luckily I've got an unlimited data tariff on my mobile and that connection works better than the VM one now.

I'm in Exeter as well.

Using a proxy to view one of the most use websites seems a bit mad... thankfully never seen the issue myself