YouTube videos loading WAY slower than usual???

I can't believe I'm actually complaining about this, because this has almost NEVER been a problem for me, but for some reason videos on YouTube are loading WAAAAYYYY too slow. I usually never have problems with YouTube videos, since they usually load while I'm watching them (and finish loading much sooner than the video is done playing), but right now for some reason they are taking absolutely forever to load up, even videos that are 2-4 minutes long (which always load up in no time). All I see is that spinning circle, and the video won't start for several minutes. Once it does start loading, it loads ridiculously slowly and I'm usually discouraged before I decide to actually watch the whole thing.

So what the hell is going on? Again, videos on YouTube have NEVER had a problem loading for me, and earlier today I was watching a video that was about 4 minutes long and loaded up in no time and now that same video is taking absolutely forever to load up. Please help me with this predicament.

no problem here sometimes that happens to me and just switch the res on it and i think they run on different servers so some will load quicker then the others at times

I thought it was just me lol.

Same problem for me :(

Its the whole internet in NA due to the huge amount of Olympics being shown live

I got the same problem. It just started happening about a couple hours ago, now buffering is painfully slow for whatever reason. :?

Its the whole internet in NA due to the huge amount of Olympics being shown live

Cruse34

its fine for me. my friends also say it has mad slow down too.

Its the whole internet in NA due to the huge amount of Olympics being shown live

Cruse34

yes, yes and yes so i switched over to html 5 beta and the videos load super fast

Aw man, glad other people are having this problem too, thought it was just my connection.

Mine have been for about....several months I suppose

I thought it was just me.

They are experimenting with the new video interface and html5 video as I recall.

That could be interfering with the website.

Wow I'm seriously glad that I'm not the only one with this problem, now I know that it isn't my computer or Internet connection that's causing YouTube videos to load so slowly. Hopefully this issue is resolved for everyone soon enough.

Same thing happened to me. It's better now though.

Yea, I notice that youtube videos are loading slower for me too.

I've noticed too. Not for every video, but for some that should load fast, they don't.

It's nobody's fault really, YT has to limit bandwidth, millions of people trying to load videos off of the same server pretty much = slow loading.

It's nobody's fault really, YT has to limit bandwidth, millions of people trying to load videos off of the same server pretty much = slow loading.

RobboElRobbo

Same here.

I have the same problem.