Youtube Slowness
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For the past few days, Youtube has been weirdly slow. I don’t think it’s my internet connection, because my home and work locations both result in lots of buffering in Youtube videos. Considering that Google owns them (literally), it seems like they should have all the bandwidth they need. Yet almost every video I try to watch ends up timing out and rebuffering. Maybe people should make more of this crisis than the whole “Twitter is always down” thing.
Because people actually use Youtube!
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I hadn’t noticed that Youtube was misbehaving, though it did take forever to get a short video clip uploaded. Twitter, now, that one’s bugging the crap out of me. Work, damn you, work!!!
This also happens to me. Other video sites are OK for me, but starting today (May 29 2009) all the Youtube videos I’ve tried won’t even begin to buffer, much less play. I have been able to watch a few videos by jumping to the middle of the video and watching about a minute at a time (the maximum it seems to want to buffer) and then jumping to a different portion, but needless to say this is a serious hit to usability.