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Hack&Lube · 03-02-2009, 08:10 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPqTF...89905C&index=0 (click on HD)

Just wondering if my connection is just slow. I am Shaw regular high speed internet and I can't stream the HD version smoothly at all. It just goes far too slow to keep up with playing speed, about 100KBytes/s only in terms of average transfer rate from Youtube. I can't stream any of their HD videos when I used to be able to and it's maddening. I can't figure out why.

Mightyfire89 · 03-02-2009, 08:19 PM

Works perfectly fine for me. I can't remember which plan I have from Shaw though.

Not much help, I know.

HPLovecraft · 03-02-2009, 08:49 PM

Streams well for me. I'm on whatever Rogers Cable has as its highest bandwidth.

photon · 03-02-2009, 09:02 PM

Works fine for me, Shaw.

Cliche · 03-02-2009, 09:08 PM

Streams for me after fiddling with it for a little bit initially. Didn't like going to HD, paused then let it play again. I let the buffer load up, and it played normally. Shaw regular high-speed.

Dion · 03-02-2009, 09:35 PM

Works fine for me as well. Shaw high speed user also.

HPLovecraft · 03-03-2009, 12:00 AM

We all know times are tough recently, but I think you need to get off the dial-up, Hack&Lube.

Vulcan · 03-03-2009, 12:11 AM

My connection speed seems to keep up but this Utube HD seems to use a lot of resources and this cheap computer can't keep up and is making it into a slide show.

Hack&Lube · 03-03-2009, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

We all know times are tough recently, but I think you need to get off the dial-up, Hack&Lube.

It feels like dial-up, my Shaw has felt super slow lately.

Hack&Lube · 03-03-2009, 02:35 AM

Hmm, that's odd. It seems like Youtube is restricting bandwidth to me to 100KB/s per video. If I open 5 videos, it goes at 500KB/s. Anybody experience this before???