You tube locking up

[devonwoody]

The past week trying to watch videos at you tube some will not load when you push the play button but seem to keep trying but will not upload, some work but not all.

Anyone experiencing this?

And the solution?

 

[nev]

try restarting your router?

 

[devonwoody]

OK Nev, thanks I will give that a try.

 

[Harry 48]

Hi devonwoody I have been having the same problem most annoying I have reset every thing my end but no improvement :x

 

[DragonImprovements]

Same my end! Virgin media down here and seems to be very hit and miss

 

[Silas Gull]

I think if you Google 'current YouTube web status' or similar, there's a site that will tell you when a particular major site is down or experiencing problems.

 

[carlb40]

Yeah i get the same. it took over 2hrs the other night to get one video to load. Tried earlier again as i was looking for something for a member, but same again. So have given up on it for now.

 

[devonwoody]

Who is the problem, you tube, server, mine is virginmedia cable?

 

[Harry 48]

I think its a you tube problem they can't keep up with demand but I may be wrong I usually am
I'm on virgin cable

 

[Tom K]

How fast is your broadband? If the videos are HD you may need to lower the playback reolution to 360

 

[Harry 48]

Broadband speed 20mg only have problems on you tube

 

[carlb40]

How fast is your broadband? If the videos are HD you may need to lower the playback reolution to 360

Virgin 60meg for me and it isn't every video, most of the videos i have tried don't even have HD option as they predate HD. :lol:

 

[devonwoody]

Perhaps the kids back to school will give us oldies some peace and viewing time. :wink:

Last week of their holiday was always a difficult one to fill up their time I recall.

 

[defsdoor]

It's a virgin problem. They have their own YouTube proxies and they are constantly doing this. And Virgin deny any known problems and have done for years. Their forum is full of complaints.

 

[defsdoor]

Also you will note that the adverts never suffer. Odd that isn't it....


It's because they play more often so are cached on virgin's proxies. Your playback issues are usually on stuff that's not cached, so really popular vids will be ok.

 

[devonwoody]

So could I tell virgin they are not maintaining their broadband contract with me or something and therefore they are breaking their contract with me and wind things up a bit?