Win 7? Chrome? IE? or YouTube?

[David]

For the past few weeks YouTube seems to take !forever! to buffer and play,
and even then it stops several times to finish buffering.
When I got my new HP last summer, there were no problems like this at all!
(I have almost 2 G of RAM.)
I use Chrome, but tried IE (64 bit) and it didn't seem to help.
Or is it just that YouTube is running slower?

Any thoughts?

Thanks
David

 

[Peter Taylor]

For the past few weeks YouTube seems to take !forever! to buffer and
play, and even then it stops several times to finish buffering.
When I got my new HP last summer, there were no problems like this at
all! (I have almost 2 G of RAM.)
I use Chrome, but tried IE (64 bit) and it didn't seem to help.
Or is it just that YouTube is running slower?

Any thoughts?

Thanks
David

Have you installed the latest version of Flash?

 

[Ed Cryer]

For the past few weeks YouTube seems to take !forever! to buffer and
play, and even then it stops several times to finish buffering.
When I got my new HP last summer, there were no problems like this at
all! (I have almost 2 G of RAM.)
I use Chrome, but tried IE (64 bit) and it didn't seem to help.
Or is it just that YouTube is running slower?

Any thoughts?

Thanks
David

It sounds like a broadband problem. My own ISP imposes limits on
torrents at peak hours, everything else staying good. Before it did that
everything used to just get slower.

Ed

 

[Nil]

For the past few weeks YouTube seems to take !forever! to buffer
and play, and even then it stops several times to finish
buffering. When I got my new HP last summer, there were no
problems like this at all! (I have almost 2 G of RAM.)
I use Chrome, but tried IE (64 bit) and it didn't seem to help.
Or is it just that YouTube is running slower?

Any thoughts?

I've noticed similar things, but it's not just Youtube, it's many flash
presentations. I've been keeping up with the frequent Flash security
updates, and I have a feeling it's Flash itself whose performance is
getting worse. I blame it on Adobe.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per David:

Or is it just that YouTube is running slower?

Any thoughts?

Lately I have noticed the same thing.

Thought it was my ISP at first, but then realized that something is also
going on with the download buffer: used to be that if I paused a
troublesome clip and just let it sit there while I did something else,
the buffering would continue to download and when I came back to it
there would be enough buffered data that it would play smoothly to the
end.

Now, once I pause it, buffering either stops or slows down a lot.

Can't say that this is happening on my XP box (it might be... just have
not been looking...) but I do see this on my Android devices.