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Youtube Loading Slow – It’s Time to Speed Up!

September 27th, 2009

Youtube has been really slow for last few weeks, some people say months. After all it takes ages lately before you can run a video, all you see is endless loading and slow buffering. Let’s presume you don’t have a dial-up connection, if so it’s very advisable not to run videos in high quality (HQ) or high definition (HD).

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If you have ADSL connection or higher, follow these steps to make Youtube loading fast again. We are going to change DNS servers you got from your ISP.

This particularly method to speed up Youtube is shown for Windows Vista, but should look quite similar on XP, or even with Windows 7.

  1. Go Windows Start button, and run Control Panel.
  2. Click on Network and Sharing Center.
  3. Select Manage network connections.
  4. Double click on active internet connection, probably named as Local Area Connection.
  5. Click Properties.
  6. Now double click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), located in middle form.
  7. Select Use the following DNS server addressed, and change them to:
  8. Preferred DNS Server: 208.67.222.222
    Alternate DNS Server: 208.67.222.220

    Updated on 10.06.2010: If you are located in Europe, I would recommend you to use Google’s public DNS servers:

    Preferred DNS Server: 8.8.8.8
    Alternate DNS Server: 8.8.4.4

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  9. Click OK to confirm changes to Open DNS servers.

Great. Youtube videos should be loading fast again.


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  1. Juan
    July 22nd, 2011 at 04:32 | #1

    Wow.
    I would have NEVER thought that changing the DNS servers would solve this. Now YouTube loads 720p videos very fast.
    Thanks for sharing this!

  2. Yoann
    July 25th, 2011 at 12:03 | #2

    WTf ? This actually worked, just like that…
    Thanks a lot !

  3. Bonzai
    July 28th, 2011 at 23:39 | #3

    I love you man! it worked!

  4. Steve
    August 1st, 2011 at 07:22 | #4

    Wow… Epic find, it works great.

  5. alex
    August 12th, 2011 at 06:19 | #5

    Holy crap… i loaded a video that was like 3 min long and it was loaded completely right after i clicked on it…

  6. Hub City…
    August 31st, 2011 at 23:26 | #6

    Amazing…FINALLY….
    MAY GOD CONTINUE TO WORK IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU>>>SO THAT LIVES MAY BE CHANGED AND COME TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS THE LORD AND SAVIOR>>>

  7. Hub City…
    September 1st, 2011 at 00:07 | #7

    OK<,I think I spoke to soon….
    Loaded up the first video and it went great…
    I closed YT and started YT back up…Went back to the (((((DRAGING)))) mode again…

  8. OLD outdated idea.
    September 15th, 2011 at 00:45 | #8

    We all know this doesn’t do anything — except, if you’re lucky maybe it’ll help for a day or two.

  9. Abibat
    November 22nd, 2011 at 01:46 | #9

    1080p Here I come!

  10. Anonymous
    December 4th, 2011 at 02:46 | #10

    I loaded a 1 hour video with only buffering twice!

  11. Kevin
    January 19th, 2012 at 17:38 | #11

    This worked fo me too on 2 Macs the house PC works fine on the IP DNS. I have no idea why there should be a difference but there is and thanksa million for this one

  12. ja
    February 7th, 2012 at 21:49 | #12

    thanks, it worked like a charm!! :D

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