Speed up YouTube: what to do if videos load slowly?
If you find annoying long loading times on YouTube, you can speed up the video portal with a few tricks. We present the best of them.
YouTube Tempo Tip 1: Switch to the fast beta version
By participating in the You-Tube beta test "Feather" you can speed up the loading of YouTube videos considerably.
- Open the YouTube website and scroll down to the very bottom. If you click on the link "Try something new!", You will be taken to "TestTube".
- Here you will find all currently running beta tests, as well as "Feather". Click on "Try it out".
- Then click on the "Activate Feather Beta" button and open any video.
- The videos are now loaded permanently in a greatly simplified environment. On the right side you can still see a few video suggestions, but below the video there is hardly any annoying data ballast. The pages are loaded more than twice as fast.
- If you would like to undo the whole thing, simply repeat the process described above.
YouTube Tempo Tip 2: Avoid Throttling
Many Internet providers are throttling the connection to video portals like YouTube. You can avoid this throttling under Windows with a firewall setting.
- Press the "Windows" and "R" keys simultaneously so that the "Execute" command opens. Enter "cmd" there and click "OK".
- A black console opens in which you enter the following: "netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name =" Youtube "dir = in action = block remoteip = 173.194.55.0 / 24, 206.111.0.0 / 16 enable = yes". Leave out the quotation marks at the beginning and at the end and confirm your entry with "Enter".
- You will then receive an "OK" as feedback. The YouTube videos should now load much faster.
- To undo this, instead of the above command, type the following: "netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name =" Youtube "".
In this practical tip, we present further helpful tips that accelerate the loading of YouTube videos.