Streaming woes

[Rhisiart]

I get around 3.25 Mpps of broadband speed. It should be more than adequate for streaming videos (such as on YouTube).

However, I keep getting frequent buffering/freezes/slow downs and it's becoming a drag.

Does anyone have any idea what the fault may be?

P.S. It makes no difference whether I use Safari or Firefox.

 

[jcooke]

I must agree, I feel as though YouTube lacks what the people at Google can provide us. There has never been a time when I haven't had problems with YouTube, either the video won't even show up or it takes an hour to load a three minute video.

(End of rant )

I honestly think it's just YouTube and nothing more, it stayed the same from computer to computer. Or maybe Mac OS X just doesn't like YouTube. One thing that I did come by a little while ago was Divx's web plug-in for flash videos. I'm not exactly sure of everything that it does, but it does a much better job at loading and buffering the videos on YouTube.

 

[oldmanmac]

Using Safari you might want to try the" You Tube 5" extension,Takes You Tube videos and plays them as HTML 5 video.Pretty much cleared out my YT issues. You Tube does suffer from poor performance when it gets busy.Not much we can do about that.

 

[Satcomer]

Plus measure you real speed with SpeedTest.net and pick your closet server. A lot of users lately have been seeing older cheap brand routers dying after 2-3 years (slowing down of course first). Also try to run straight to the ISP modem (power off the modem first) to see if the speeds change. It might be worth a try.

 

[Rhisiart]

Thanks for the above. I tried Divx but it wouldn't work on Safari (but it will with Google Chrome).

Lo and behold having now tried Google Chrome streaming is heaps better!

 

[Satcomer]

Plus i have given up on Flash. I use the YouTube HTML5 player and works great, in High Definition. You may would want to try the HTML beta program to see if that helps.