You Tube keeps loading ...

smurfchops | 14:29 Fri 28th Jan 2011 | Technology

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Got windows 7 laptop. Using mozilla firefox. Trying to watch youtube but it just keeps loading ..... do I need to download something to watch youtube quicker ?

Sky broadband,telephone line

Motorola razr v3

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ChuckFickens

do a speedtest

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

And report back what your download speed is

TonyV

no - what connection to tinterweb do you have?

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smurfchops

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BT Broadband. 2437 kbps.

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ChuckFickens

2400 should be OK for youtube as long as you are not trying to watch HD stuff. but it's not a great speed and during busy times it may be a problem.

Also it says in BT terms for option1 broadband "We do limit the speed of all video streaming to 896Kbps on our Option 1 product, during peak times only"

896Kbs is not enough to watch youtube, so if they are restricting yur speed that will be why.

(doc..... just under 7Mbs is very good)

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NazNomad

I'm getting about 6½ Meg ... even then, some YouTube will 'hang' ...

ChuckFickens

Doc, the low upload is normal.

The A in ADSL stands for Asymmetric, which means that the upload speed is different from the download speed. the reasoning behind this is basically you download a lot from the internet but you upload very little so you don't need a fast upload speed.

In some areas you can get SDSL (Symmetric digital subscriber line) which the upload and download is the same speed, but 99.9% of people would have no real use for a faster upload speed.

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smurfchops

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Well I dont really understand anything technical, but is there anything I can do ?

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smurfchops

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Thanks doc.