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Why does my iPad have such a hard time with youtube videos or videos in general?

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iPhoney:)

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My lap top and my iPad are using the same wi fi network and my laptop can stream a video all the way through without a problem but my iPad keps stoping the video and making me hit the play button again and again,it's driving me crazy :confused:


Edit; and when it freezes and then eventually resumes by itself(something my laptop rarely has issues with) it fast forwards through the eact amount of minutes that it was frozen, so I end up having to backtrack, it's really pissing me off!
 
I'm not going to lie to you, but search the iPad forum for YouTube and you'll be served with a couple of things to try to rectify this (YMMV).

I must also admit that I have as of yet to discover a performance difference between the iPad and a PC or Mac when it comes to YouTube. I always have the same problem irrespective of device with the video freezing about one sixth in.
 
iPhoney:) said:
My lap top and my iPad are using the same wi fi network and my laptop can stream a video all the way through without a problem but my iPad keps stoping the video and making me hit the play button again and again,it's driving me crazy :confused:


Edit; and when it freezes and then eventually resumes by itself(something my laptop rarely has issues with) it fast forwards through the eact amount of minutes that it was frozen, so I end up having to backtrack, it's really pissing me off!
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I had the exact same symptoms. Macs and even iPhone stream Youtube just fine, iPad froze/halted/resumed/skipped forward. All the time, really annoying. I was completely fixed when I changed my iPad's DNS settings to point to Google's (8.8.8.8) or Level3's (4.2.2.1). I'm sure OpenDNS's would do the trick too. Now Youtube on the iPad screams.

-Sean
 
beaster said:
I had the exact same symptoms. Macs and even iPhone stream Youtube just fine, iPad froze/halted/resumed/skipped forward. All the time, really annoying. I was completely fixed when I changed my iPad's DNS settings to point to Google's (8.8.8.8) or Level3's (4.2.2.1). I'm sure OpenDNS's would do the trick too. Now Youtube on the iPad screams.

-Sean
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My iPad is pig slow on Youtube, a million times slower than my MBP. Google's DNS didn't help, but I might try that other one later and see if it works...
 
try this

had same problem..try turning off "ask to join networks" in settings..solved the you tube/video issue for me
 
beaster said:
I had the exact same symptoms. Macs and even iPhone stream Youtube just fine, iPad froze/halted/resumed/skipped forward. All the time, really annoying. I was completely fixed when I changed my iPad's DNS settings to point to Google's (8.8.8.8) or Level3's (4.2.2.1). I'm sure OpenDNS's would do the trick too. Now Youtube on the iPad screams.

-Sean
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how do I change DNS settings?
 
i find that youtube on the ipad bogs down after awhile unless you reboot the ipad (turn it on/off). once i do that, it flies again. works for me everytime.
 
I had the problem as well. Changing to the Google one suggested above has fixed it for me.





oli356 said:
How do I go about doing this?

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Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > then tap the little blue arrow icon next to your network under the "Choose a Network" heading > then just type in the new DNS
 
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