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YouTube is slow on the iPad

VladM said:
Same problem here. It's most annoying, because it makes youtube useless to me. I hope a fix for this comes out soon.
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Yep! Same here 95% of the time? Basically it's crap even with a 7.1 Meg DSL.

I even get this on my iMac but not as often! For me, ever since google took it over it's been garbage!

All other streaming here including HD movies from netflix stream fine to 2 HDTV's at the same time!

I think it's a Google issue with crappy BW and their throttling in different areas!

Very annoying! :eek:
 
I had great luck with Youtube on the iPad my first few days, but now its just like it is on my iPhone: pretty much worthless.

On my iPhone, videos play fine with little or no buffering on 3G, but of course the quality is diminished.

On the iPad and iPhone, Youtube or streaming video from Apple.com or pretty much any other site is useless. Plays the first few seconds and then refuses to play further, or will continuously buffer.

Treebark said:
And I haven't noticed it on other sites/videos (ABC Player, Netflix, etc.), only youtube.
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Excellent point, I stream my Slingbox via the Slingbox app, and the ABC streams near-HD video flawlessly at my job's fairly slow network.
 
I had issues with my iPad at first even though my computer worked fine. I simply returned my router to factory settings and restarted it and ever since my iPad has been perfect. I have no complaints.
 
gdeputy said:
I had issues with my iPad at first even though my computer worked fine. I simply returned my router to factory settings and restarted it and ever since my iPad has been perfect. I have no complaints.
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Unfortunately that doesn't work for everyone, myself included. Any other ideas? I actually have tried on three different routers in three different locations, one buffalo fresh new, one apple extreme rebooted, and one linksys with tomato firmware. And two different iPads.

Given my experience, the number of people who also experience slowness (and even those who have to refresh routers to get it to be better) I can't help but think there is an issue somewhere with the iPad's youtube implementation or lack of memory or netowrk or I don't know what, but something.

:(
 
Same problem here
Thought it was my network problem.
Upgraded from 512kbps to 8 Mbps - still YouTube on iPad sux!
 
Turning auto brightness off helped me

The following tip from another website helped me a lot:

Turn off auto-brightness. If it didn’t work for so many users, we wouldn’t believe it ourselves. To do this, tap Settings, then select “Brightness & Wallpaper” from the left-hand pane. Slide the auto-brightness option to off.​

After I did this I watched five videos and in only one case did the buffering not stay ahead of the playback.

Previously I had tried rebooting my router and that hadn't helped.
 
Ed J said:
The following tip from another website helped me a lot:

Turn off auto-brightness. If it didn’t work for so many users, we wouldn’t believe it ourselves. To do this, tap Settings, then select “Brightness & Wallpaper” from the left-hand pane. Slide the auto-brightness option to off.​

After I did this I watched five videos and in only one case did the buffering not stay ahead of the playback.

Previously I had tried rebooting my router and that hadn't helped.
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I may give the auto brightness a shot but I have moved on to m.youtube.com in safari which plays higher quality video and loads very fast. No problems whatsoever with it.
 
Treebark said:
I may give the auto brightness a shot but I have moved on to m.youtube.com in safari which plays higher quality video and loads very fast. No problems whatsoever with it.
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I will try that, too. It wouldn't help with embedded YouTube though would it?

Anyway, I wanted to note that further testing has shown it is more effective for me to adjust brightness upward. From appletoolbox.com:

Adjust brightness upward. Likewise, this issue can sometimes be resolved by simply adjusting the iPad’s brightness level upward and off the lowest setting. To do this, tap Settings, then select “Brightness & Wallpaper” from the left-hand pane. Slide the brightness bar upward, then wait 1-2 minutes and check for an improvement in signal strength.*Speculation holds that a power delivery issue associated with the screen brightness affects Wi-Fi.​
 
the solution

Change your dns.
Worked for me, blazing fast now. Had the same problem as all of you and its fixed. Hopefully apple addresses in a future sw update
 
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. The speed of YouTube is really upsetting to me. One of the main things I wanted to use the iPad for was to catch up on all my subscriptions at night before bed and things. However, because of how slow the speeds are I haven't watched one full video yet because it is just too annoying to wait on. I tried watching a 55 second video last night, thinking it would be short and not take as long, after 5 minutes and getting to see about 20 seconds I decided it wasn't worth it.

I tried turning auto brightness off and it didn't make a difference at all. Before and after the change I can typically watch 2 seconds or so and then it need to load for a while before I can proceed. I tried changing the DNS and it seems to help a little, the same video from last night I was about to watchin about 20 seconds in less than a minute, but then it stopped and started taking a while to buffer again. So, it is slightly improved but still not good enough that I would watch a bunch of videos on it.

I really hope a fix comes along for this really soon. I downloaded ABC player yesterday, thinking it would be an issue as well, but everything runs so smoothly and perfectly, I'd love for YouTube to be a little more like this.

Again, thanks for the suggestions!
 
BigEvil said:
the solution

Change your dns.
Worked for me, blazing fast now. Had the same problem as all of you and its fixed. Hopefully apple addresses in a future sw update
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I'm not at home and so can't try this - but I did do something similar before, but only put in one address. Are we supposed to put BOTH DNSs in there? Because just one or the other did not work.

Tap Setting > WiFi, and click on DNS, then type the following

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Save it.
Then turn off wifi and turn it back on again.
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I have this issue sometimes, but switching to the youtube site instead of the app almost always fixes it.
 
Sorry to dredge up this old thread but I didn't think it needed a new one. I am still having slow YouTube at home. I have tried:
  • Reboot router
  • Reboot cable modem
  • Replace DNS on iPad with openDNS
  • Reboot iPad
  • Delete network, add again
  • Use YouTube app, site, and embedded
  • drop all wireless to G ONLY

but I still can't play a video. Every time I get a few seconds in and it stops to buffer again.

Videos on the desktop machine and AppleTV load and play instantly.

I have a 2-year old Linksys (router/wireless) and an airport extreme (used as a WAP only). The encryption is WPA2 psk.

Does anyone have any other ideas? I was wondering if this was because Apple has to transcode the flash on YouTube to QuickTime. Am I wrong there?

WTF is going on?!? :mad:
 
hualon said:
Sorry to dredge up this old thread but I didn't think it needed a new one. I am still having slow YouTube at home. I have tried:
  • Reboot router
  • Reboot cable modem
  • Replace DNS on iPad with openDNS
  • Reboot iPad
  • Delete network, add again
  • Use YouTube app, site, and embedded
  • drop all wireless to G ONLY

but I still can't play a video. Every time I get a few seconds in and it stops to buffer again.

Videos on the desktop machine and AppleTV load and play instantly.

I have a 2-year old Linksys (router/wireless) and an airport extreme (used as a WAP only). The encryption is WPA2 psk.

Does anyone have any other ideas? I was wondering if this was because Apple has to transcode the flash on YouTube to QuickTime. Am I wrong there?

WTF is going on?!? :mad:
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Don't feel bad I have a similar iPad, router and dns settings and i too have the same problem.

Works fine on my 2 year old iMac and iPhone 4 but not the iPad.
 
The issue must placed at iOS' door.
My router is fine. My 2-year old Dell(don't laugh) laptop loads and plays HD YouTube instantly, my PS3 has no issues, my friend's 3GS has no issues. Only my iPad and iPhone 4 suffer this.
It's not just YouTube either. HQ videos on Apple.com, GameTrailers.com, etc suffer the same, pausing, buffering, sometimes freezing state.
I updated my iPad to 3.2.2(had no need for it's jailbreak), and things are better, but I'm sure that's purely down to the restore, and things will bog down again, in the very near future. :(
 
I've had all the same issues, but the annoying thing is I'll try one of the suggestions and it will work fine for a few days but then goes to hell again - extremely annoying! what makes it worse (as with everyone else), my iPhone 4, crappy laptop etc all work fine!

Also, I have general issues with Safari a page will load to the point of the www. In the progress bar and then stop. Turning wi-fi on/off resolves it for a short while, but it's extremely annoying considering web browsing/you tubeing in comfort is the main reason I bought the iPad :rolleyes:
 
This is really really annoying me too. It's just YouTube on the iPad! All other devices are fine!
I hope there is an update soon to fix this!
 
leons said:
Changing my DNS Servers to Googles ON MY ROUTER fixed it for me.
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Making this changed has also helped greatly, although there are times where it's still slower than my computer. Note, you have to make the change for each new WiFi connection. I found this out the hard way on a recent business trip.
 
DNAppleGold said:
Making this changed has also helped greatly, although there are times where it's still slower than my computer. Note, you have to make the change for each new WiFi connection. I found this out the hard way on a recent business trip.
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Is this Google's?
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
 
Im amazed that the solution provided is to change DNS. I am already using openDNS and I have slow as %^$ youtube. This is most definitely an ios problem because my evo streaming at 3G, 4G, and WiFi eats through HQ youtube like butter. Personally I think it is the wifi drivers, because when I tether to my Evo in 4G, Speed test shows 800kbps down on ipad, 3Mbps down on netbook and ~5 Mpbs down on evo. I have not been able to reconcile this speed difference and the majority of time I have crappy youtube
 
There IS a problem of unknown origin. Changing DNS does not solve the problem, but for many, it alleviates the symptoms. But the DNS change that helps in most cases is to change to GOOGLES DNS, not Open DNS.
 
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