Has anyone noticed YouTube or google loading slow?

[HotSamoan3]

I dunno if it is just me but has any one notice if you tube and google are loading slow? Just wanna know if everyone is experiencing this or if it is just me and my connection. Thanks.

[Lazure]

Oh yes, and it's terrible! For the past five days, google, youtube, and twitter have all been broken!

They just sit there on Loading... forever. They seem to get to about halfway on loading, and just stay. They never load.

Youtube has been slow for me for the past few months, with over 80% of the videos not even loading as fast as they play. Now I'm lucky I can even access the home youtube page!

I cannot search efficiently anymore or watch youtube videos anymore... nevermind not being able to check one of my email accounts.

It also appears to only be affecting CFL RR users.

[jcarrera]

RR, what is going on?

[The Insider]

I was wondering if it was just me or not.

[jcarrera]

There was about a 30 second piece on the outage/slowdown on WFTV, 12-27-09 about 6.10 pm.

It said basically nothing. BHN will not return their calls, starting yesterday.

[iceturkee]

big story at orlandosentinel.com.

[jcarrera]

big story at orlandosentinel.com.

Link would have been helpful

[jcarrera]

BHN's silence for nearly two days on this issue, followed by evasive, uninformative "answers," clearly represents their disdain for their customers, or their incompetence, or both.

Their PIO should be fired unless he/she was muzzled by higher management, in which case THEY should be fired.

There is a possibility this is all due to inability to figure out what was wrong. See 'incompetence' above.

[LonghornXP]

Youtube videos refusing to buffer has been a major issue in my home for many months and nothing I do can fix it completely. I'm in the Tampa Bay market by the way. Also the only thing I've been able to do is switch my DNS servers using both OpenDNS and Level3 DNS servers. This tends to allow the playback to finish to the end just barely before stopping and stuttering starts but not all the time.

I'm almost sure this is because of throttling of some sorts because Netflix WatchNow for example has never had problems (including Netflix WatchNow HD) even during peak hours of internet traffic. Many times quite a few of my sites refuse to load including Bank Of America when trying to view my credit card statements when it connects to the East Coast secure server.

Its another reason I'm most likely switching to FIOS once I have it available to me. Remember I have the 40Mbps service so youtube video playback and buffering should never be an issue with the kind of bandwidth google provides for their youtube service.

[jcarrera]

Pause a youtube video.
right click on the video
click 'settings'
find the icon for 'local storage'
change it to 10 MB

solved my problem