Author Topic: YouTube poll (Read 599 times)

David Houck · « **on:** August 25, 2009, 05:55:59 PM »

Which of these statements describes your experience.

1 - YouTube videos always play great for me!

2 - YouTube videos always play great when I'm using (insert name of browser or browsers here), but when I'm using (insert name(s) here), the videos are often very slow to load and won't stream properly.

3 - I often have trouble with YouTube videos being slow to load and not streaming properly no matter which browser I use, and I'm using (insert browser names here).

sonicus · « **Reply #1 on:** August 25, 2009, 06:34:08 PM »

Hi Dave. I am currently having the best YouTube experience with Fire Fox 3.5.2 on an old Apple dual 1.25GHZ with 2 Gigs of RAM . I am using two 75gig 10k rpm SCSI ultra320 hard drives configured in RAID level 0 in OS 10.4.11

I think that the more bandwidth that you have on your internet connection the better your experience will be. I find that you need at least 3 mbps speed for an enjoyable view . You can test your speed at http://speedtest.net also at http://2wire.com

sonicus · « **Reply #2 on:** August 25, 2009, 06:37:47 PM »

My SCSI PCI card is an ATTO UL4D

David Houck · « **Reply #3 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:06:00 PM »

Wolf; my download speed as measured at speedtest is 3mbps.

Answering my own poll; 3. I often have trouble with youtube vids on both Firfox (currently 3.0.13, haven't upgraded to new version yet) and MS Internet Explorer 8.0.6. I'm on an HP laptop with 2.00GHz processor and 1GB of ram running Windows XP.

crobbins · « **Reply #4 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:19:15 PM »

1 - YouTube videos always play great for me!

David Houck · « **Reply #5 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:29:26 PM »

Just upgraded to Firefox 3.5.2; will see if that helps.

sonicus · « **Reply #6 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:32:02 PM »

Hi Dave
Sorry I did not answer the poll as per your form
I have a problem always digressing.

tbrannon · « **Reply #7 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:32:28 PM »

The latest version of Safari works very well for me....

elwoodblue · « **Reply #8 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:38:20 PM »

1. youtube always play well,
I just upgraded to the new firefox
speed: 24+ Mb/s

sonicus · « **Reply #9 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:51:48 PM »

I noticed that Fire Fox 3.5.2 was much faster on my hardware then the previous version.

sonicus · « **Reply #10 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:58:04 PM »

I have been having occasional strange page not found errors with the latest version of Safari I am sorry to say, especially on eBay.

bsee · « **Reply #11 on:** August 25, 2009, 08:31:38 PM »

Older versions of firefox used to suck. I kept a copy of IE just so I could look at YouTube. The current firefox version has been flawless for me. I vaguely recall looking at my plug-ins and add-ons to disable some unnecessary crap before it became stable.

We do have pretty consistent 10/2 service here, though.

gyonnii · « **Reply #12 on:** August 25, 2009, 08:49:53 PM »

I am running off a Mac quad pro 16 gig of memory and have never had a problem with you tube except on my old windows machine, it was maxed out on front side bus/hard drive etc...but when my memory got to full from music files it would interrupt my computer playback, especially on video applications, when I cleaned it up and defrag the system you tube would run better, you might need to get an external hard drive note book which is what I had to do to free up and store my music files to make things run better, I use a western digital that although Mac doesn't read everything windows, I transferred it to my mac because I had some files that I saved and wanted to be able to bring them to Mac.

artswork99 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 25, 2009, 09:24:47 PM »

# 1
Utilizing IE 8 connecting via a cable network provider at a 5MB downstream.
Here is another interesting testing site http://performance.toast.net/

tom_z · « **Reply #14 on:** August 25, 2009, 09:34:06 PM »

No problems with YouTube.
Firefox / MacBook Pro