A YouTube question

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-12-17 11:48am

For some reason, when I use YT, it has the strange habit of loading some videos rapidly (The time it takes the red bar to reach the end), and others are excessively slow. For example: This has taken just under an hour to fully load whilst This only took a minute

Any suggestions?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-12-17 11:56am

If it takes too long, just reload the page; sometimes the connection just needs a kick in the pants.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-12-17 11:59am

Bounty wrote:If it takes too long, just reload the page; sometimes the connection just needs a kick in the pants.

I have done that many a time. It just dies usually.

Resinence · Post by **Resinence** » 2007-12-18 12:59am

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeBv7Ma4M4o
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1bRfLHA3A

Maybe your ISP is having international link issues.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-12-18 03:20am

Resinence wrote:www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeBv7Ma4M4o
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1bRfLHA3A

Maybe your ISP is having international link issues.

Actually, whenever I click a link to Youtube, it auto switches to the UK version

Maybe its just my bloody computer.....

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » 2007-12-18 04:24am

I have the same problem - it is very frustrating. I can't even suss out a potential reason as to why it is happening.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-12-18 11:00am

They're making localized versions for most countries, including Canada. It's meant to be faster for those who are in the area (this explains Bounty always having links starting with uk. since he's pretty close and I assume browsing in English).

So the generic Youtube link would be based in NA, which is far away for you, and thus, slower than Ralph Wiggum after a lobotomy.

Jaepheth · Post by **Jaepheth** » 2007-12-18 03:17pm

I think the most often viewed videos are put on high speed servers while more obscure videos are put on slower servers.

So it may just be you having a bad connection to the server the video you want happens to be on.