Utube slow for 3 months?

[bloodhound31]

Has anyone else noticed U-Tube being VERY slow to load for the last 3 months? I thought it was just a connection problem, or perhaps I had been capped for a month, but this is going on everywhere, not just on my computer.

Baz.

[RAJAH235]

Nope Barry.
No probs here & I haven't seen any reports of such on the MozillaZine fora.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Only when my 3 kids and wife are on mobile or other computer devices!

[joe_smith]

the default video mode now is 360p which is a higher quality you can still select the the faster, but a bit less quality 240p mode in the menu.

[Tandum (Robin)]

It depends on your ISP and how much bandwidth they have paid for on the link across the ocean. I just moved back to TPG and International is crap in peak times but just fine in the morning ?

[Barrykgerdes]

Originally Posted by Tandum

It depends on your ISP and how much bandwidth they have paid for on the link across the ocean. I just moved back to TPG and International is crap in peak times but just fine in the morning ?

Robin has the probable reason. Bandwidth is finite and will be sold to the highest bidder. The leftovers go to everyone else. This was not a problem a couple of years ago because of the much better ratio of bandwidth to usage however the internet is sturated these days, mostly with spam and video, so peak usage times can be extremely slow to get a slot.

By the way The NBN will not fix this, probably make it worse. The problem is the bottlenecks in international traffic, like a need to quadrupal the number of satellite or other repeaters etc.

Be prepared to have a continual downgrade in internet performance over the next few years.

Barry