Youtube being unreliable?

jayme1

23n1th wrote: »

Are we talking 3.6.12 or 4 beta?

for me it's 3.6.12 and its had the problem since whatever the latest version was in june when I clean installed this computer.

tomstickland

Weird. I've gone over to Chrome. All working fine. Then Youtube started being slow again. So I'm now using Firefox for Youtube and everything else in Chrome. That seems to work quite well. Open Youtube in Chrome however and it lags and then doesn't bother loading the pages properly.

tomstickland

Very much a case of "just f***ing work"!

Stompa

Have you checked your ISP's status page to see if their are currently any 'issues'?

tomstickland

http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4e737923da64b1fb&hl=en&fid=4e737923da64b1fb000495706cfd612d

" Incredibly slow to load YouTube, loads with no page style"

tomstickland

Odd - I seem to have fixed it by clicking on the "maybe" button for "do you want to revenue share on your video".

tomstickland

Well, it worked last night but it's stopped working again tonight.

Just sits there at "waiting for s.ytimg.com" and then gives up after 20s of that.
Then the page loads with all the formatting gone, just blue and black text.

I've changed nothing on Firefox or Chrome since last night. So maybe this is just something outside my control. I'll see what happens.

tomstickland

I just tried this and it worked:

Add this text to "hosts" file:

74.125.162.39 static.cache.l.google.com s.ytimg.com

http://www.tech-tak-talk.co.cc/2010/08/cannot-load-youtube-sytimgcom-problem.html

spud17

tomstickland wrote: »

Well, it worked last night but it's stopped working again tonight.

Just sits there at "waiting for s.ytimg.com" and then gives up after 20s of that.
Then the page loads with all the formatting gone, just blue and black text.

Out of curiosity, I've been checking Youtube over the last 24hrs, and I've got exactly the same, waiting for s.ytimg.com and no formatting.

I use Firefox with NoScript, Youtube and s.ytimg.com are allowed, and it's always worked before.

I'll try the suggestion and report back, if I can find time.:)