Youtube 'big 'freeze'

Subject: Youtube 'big 'freeze'
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 04:55 PM

Help! In the past day, when I view any youtube clips, they "freeze" every few seconds. This hasn't happened before. Any advice/suggestions on how I can recify matters.
Cheers.

Subject: RE: Youtube 'big 'freeze'
From: Barry Finn
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 04:57 PM

No suggestions but it's happened to me too.

Barry

Subject: RE: Youtube 'big 'freeze'
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 05:07 PM

Me, too.

Subject: RE: Youtube 'big 'freeze'
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 05:08 PM

It's a bandwidth problem. Too small a pipeline on your end or too many users on theirs. You'll probably have to either quit your other tasks or wait for the clip to load entirely, then you can see it with out the pauses.

Subject: RE: Youtube 'big 'freeze'
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 06:15 PM

I started a thread on this very subject a few weeks back.

Since my newly commissioned broadband line has settled down, I can now state smugly that I experience no problems whatsoever with YouTube, all videos play faultlessly.

As Guest states above, maybe it is a bandwidth problem.

I lay out £29.00 pm for AOL Platinum, unlimited downloads, no restrictions.

However, I still cannot get Windows Media Player to work ...

Subject: RE: Youtube 'big 'freeze'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 03:34 PM

This does seem to be more noticeable these past few weeks. Perhaps its to do with more and more people visiting YouTube.

I've found the best thing to do is to open up a clip, and immediately put it on pause, and go back to the Mudcat, or some other site or activity, to give the YouTube clip a chance to load.

Subject: RE: Youtube 'big 'freeze'
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 04:04 PM

Unfortuantely as broadband access spreads you get what's called 'contention'. You may have broadband, but if all your neighbours do as well, there's a limit to how much data can come down the tube. Streaming video is very data intensive, and kids love it. It doesn't take more than a handful of neigbours watching videos, downloading music or listening to internet radio to make your bandwidth drop dramastically, to the point where streaming video doesn't.

Subject: RE: Youtube 'big 'freeze'
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 04:41 PM

We've got broadband, too.

Subject: RE: Youtube 'big 'freeze'
From: GUEST,John Robinson
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 05:48 AM

I also had a problem when I first introduced broadband. I left the firewall from my dial up days running despite the broadband supplier also offering a firewall as part of their package. This caused freezes after a few minutes of cruising the web (esp when streaming video). I now rely on the broadband suppliers firewall only and everything is okey dokey.