Youtube plays videos slowly - what to do?

It is not uncommon for YouTube videos to load very slowly. You can fix this problem with just a few tricks. We'll show you how it's done.

Load YouTube videos faster

There are several reasons why the videos load slowly. Depending on the time of day, the servers of "YouTube" are sometimes overloaded and sometimes less. Especially on holidays, it often means waiting. However, the following measures will fix some other issues that make the videos run slowly:

• Use WLAN and the connection seems to be very slow (also outside of "YouTube"), disconnect it and connect your computer or smartphone to the Internet again.
• With both a WLAN and a LAN connection, it may help to reconnect the router. There is a button on the router for this. Where this is placed differs from model to model. Therefore, please refer to the device manual.
• Turn down the picture quality of the video - if necessary to the lowest quality (see picture). The video takes much less time to load than if you were to play it in full HD resolution.
• If you don't want to accept any loss of quality despite the slow connection, all you have to do is wait. Stop the video after a second and let it load for a while.