when I thought it was my bad connection… I am really glad I’ve found this fix .. now, Youtube is loading fast again!!!

cool it’s loading normal again

lol this actually seems to work… youtube was driving me crazy with that shitty slow loading…

after all does Google care where are located or why are dns servers important to them?

I wish I would have seen this solution sooner as I spent hours trying to fix my internet connection and PC. Now I see problem was on Youtube end, which I find really weird. Could any tech guy explain how could loading be related to DNS?

Thank you guys!

Does this only happen to people from Europe? I’ve changed dns servers as mentioned in this article. I hope this will work out as permanent solution.

Better no Youtube, than slow Youtube.

This didnt exactly work that well but youtube is alittle faster

wooow.. it looked this worked for me… at least all videos I tried for now loaded faster than ever before

Mark

Guess what? Youtube is working super faster after changing dns servers as mentioned in guide…

I have also noticed that Youtube has been loading really slow lately. I am going to try this fix tonight and get back to you guys tomorrow. Hope it works :)

Its not working! or is it me? :)

thank you so much… it’s working!!! also some other sites seem to resolve faster after upgrading dns

what if I have wireless connection… how can I do this?

Misha :
what if I have wireless connection… how can I do this?

In this case you need to connect to your router and manually enter those IP’s as DNS1 and DNS2.

woooooow!!!! it’s working :DDDD

So great! I wouldn’t expect this to solve my Youtube slowness but it did!

Thank you guys!

Can this video buffering be also related to browser?

not that Youtube is slow.. it’s not even loading for me today

I just wanted to mention that the function of the DNS server is to merely translate the website name that is recognizable to humans – like google.com – to it’s IP address 74.125.65.103.

Therefore, changing the DNS server will have no affect on overall download speed.

A DNS server translates a domain name to an IP address. It does this only once, after that the client will know what the IP address is.

This advice does not make sense at all. You won’t experience a better sound quality phoning a friend after you’ve looked up the phone number in a different phone book than the one you’re used to. It’s the same thing.

@Ignor

I think you’ve missed a whole point here. It depends on what DNS server is used. Youtube uses many servers, located all over the US and Europe. So speed depends on which cache server you get connected which is related to DNS at very first place.

Changing DNS servers as mentioned in article can speed up Youtube buffering.

For the record, you can get better download speeds switching from/to HQ since the videos live on different servers. You may also copy the main URL that leads you to the video, close your browser and open the URL in a new session. Hitting F5 at the video page itself is not enough.

If you experience slowness in loading a video while the rest of the web loads fine then you’re probably connected to a Youtube server that happens to experience a temporary overload, suffers from a bad connection or node in between, or just another technical problem. Youtube has many, many servers all over the world. The server that is sending your particular video to you is chosen by a load balancing system and is determined by your location. It’s almost random. Starting a complete new session (this includes switching to/from HQ) might connect you to another server that works fine.

Furthermore, you might want to Google for ‘cable modem optimize’. Speedguide.net for instance has simple tweaks online that may improve your internet speed by allowing more simultaneous connections, better network connection cache, bigger packets etc.

@trustable
No. If your video is buffering it already has the connection and knows the IP address. Your video is not sent by multiple servers, at least not for you. Load balancing happens solely within the Youtube network where your DNS settings mean nothing.

@Ignor

Yes, in some way you are right about. Once (cache).youtube.com domain is resolved you may not notice an increasement.

But in this way we are not talking about loading Youtube site, but loading the video which is not hosted on same server data center.

And in this way changing DNS to Open DNS or any other free DNS server can do a trick!

I’ve ready many positive feedback around the web.

i have noticed this issue for the last week. i tried everything i have read that i have found online. my download speed is 10megs and youtube is still F*in slow as hell. will play 2 seconds. then buffer for 5-10 seconds, play for another 2 seconds. i wait for it to load by pressing pause but it takes 10-15 min to load a short video. WTF

Thank you guys!

This fixed my issue with slow loading videos at Youtube. Now it’s buffering as it should.

S.A.

very interesting trick you have here. i’ll give it a try.
I’ve also posted a trick on how to accelerate youtube video speed in my site. I’ll add your trick to my list. thanks for sharing.

I couldn’t sleep while thinking that I messed up the speed of my computer! THANK YOU!!! IT WORKEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

@Joe
erroneous. You assume without sufficient justification that it doesn’t work. When in fact, it has for many people, including myself. therefore, stop with the typing. You’ll only hurt yourself.

NEVER change your DNS servers based on some guy like this one saying to, he can find out your passwords to some sites like prepay, google … etc by making a site that looks like the real one(general the login screen) then when you access this site he redirects you to his fake site, it’s very easy actually, and yes youtube may run faster, maybe he found out some servers that run better, put them in his DNS server, and voila it works better, it can’t be a fake… maybe i am just too paranoid, but at least now you know this type of attack

doesnt work for me.. too bad.

I just Try this I’could be back to add comments
Thank’s for all and Be hapy

Hi,I tried the fix of Preferred DNS Server & Alternate DNS Server.I made the change @ Properties Internet Protocol (TCP/IP )Typed in as suggested,but it wouldn’t accept the same address in both locations.I also tried it in the Alternate Configurations…User Configured with the same result. Is there some other work around ? Thanking you in advance for any input.

@christian
If you are using Firefox,there is a add-on available called ” FastestFox ” I installed it last night,and solved the problem with pages not loading. They load almost immediately.

This did not work for me!!! youtube is still slow for me!!! help me!!!

u asshole it doesnt work u fucker now my cpu is slower then ever u ass hole i hate u man
now i cant figure out my old dsn u fucker i hope u die and burn in hell stupid white ppl always thinkin dey can fix this shit fucker now myy cpu cant even play fps games it laggz slow as fuck pussy azzz cracker

ass hole my cpu now cant even access youtube before this shiit it was workin very good and fast jus that youtube was slow so i put ur stupid dsn watever and now it cant even load yahoo or google takes 10min and i hav windows vista with great graphics ass hole

Ok. I would like to say right now that Igor and Man are both right. No matter what, a dns server simply takes a name and turns it into an ip address. Igor’s phonebook analogy is about as accurate and spot on as it gets. If, for some reason, using another dns server fixes the problem, it is a fluke or, as Man put it, a server that has been made to manipulate youtube. Changing a DNS server to one that some random dude on the internet says is completely unsafe an is bound end in stolen information. Don’t do it. Now, there are some free dns servers out there that are good and safe, such as google’s dns server that you can try and trust to work well. (After all, google probably has the biggest site index in creation.)

Of the many possible reasons for youtube being slow, my money goes towards either youtube needing to expand their bandwidth or server speed or that the isp’s are throttling youtube to save on money. (ISP’s have a history of such greedy behavior, so it wouldn’t be the first time something like this has happened..) Another possibility is that youtube has some bugs that need fixing that they have yet to find.

Fuckdabulls:
-Dude, calm the fuck down and in the very least us grammar that is remotely proper. SHIT. Anyways, I know your pissed and don’t know how to fix the problem, but don’t do stuff that random people tell you unless you know enough about computers to undo it later… Here’s a web page from microsoft on changing internet options. You want to change your dns settings back to “Obtain DNS server address automatically.” Doing this will put you back to square one. You can also just call your internet provider you changed your DNS setting and have them walk you through it…

got it !

thanx m8

Try using public google dns.It really faster than opendns for me!

I had little hope in this fix, but it worked great. All other sites loaded fine, but youtube videos would take forever. Not anymore!

Great…youtube is sooo fast..
Thank you!

Live in Korea, was having a hell of a time with youtube. Used the google DNS setting now no problems.

I fucking Love you.
This works Great (:
Thank you so much :)!

says prefered and alternate cant be same

Just stopping by to say thanks, it did the trick!

itis :
says prefered and alternate cant be same

it’s typo, it’s supposed to be:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

@#37

I know it doesn’t sound right, but it does actually work!

Though I was actually having problems while using Google DNS, and I changed back to my ISP.

While one Google DNS: Even 360p was slow to load, froze every 5 seconds and I had to pause it to view videos in its entirety.

While on ISP DNS: Even 1080p plays fine without even a single freeze.

I can reproduce it without problems too. So there’s definitely something to it.

Even full HD videos on the Youtube loading fast after changing DNS servers! I would never think of this. Thank you so much for speeding up slow buffering movies.

Google videos loaded ridiculously slow for my FiOS on the East Coast. After doing this, they load instantaneously now.

Now i’m just curious how it’ll effect other websites/ping etc?

Web sites will probably load faster now. It won’t effect ping time, since it pings the IP address not domain name itself.

WAY THE COOL…TIT REALLY SPEED UP..HAHA
THNKS

o.o i dun like you tube because it is buffering then no video comes up then all of a sudden like 30 minutes later the whole frigging thing is loaded i am like WTF!?!?!?!?!?! then i have to go and do it again and again and again until i find the right one

oh my fricken god! Are you serious!

I was just trying to load a video. It was buffering at 200KB/sec and I was almost set to fuck youtube and leave it after this bull shit. As the video was buffering, I changed the DNS… nothing. I copied the URL, closed the browser, then re-opened and starting buffering…. OMFG! IT”S WORKING!! Buffering at between roughly 1.3MB-1.6MB/sec continually!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

i tried this and it still loads really really slow! Is there anything eles i can do?

Fucking love you.

this doesnt work worth shit on my pc! so it has got ot be something else!

oh my gosh, thank you!

fuck sake, tryed putting the UK DNS setting into my PC, and my Mac Pro is still really struggling with youtube, takes ages!!! what else can i try?

would changing to another company like Sky or BT homhub give me a better download speed??

cheers

Thank you thank you thank you it FINALLY works better now!

Thanks for your info, i am so happy with it..

Thank you man .. its working :)

Thanks!! It Worked!! The speed of loading YouTUB has frustrated me for eons.

wow, my youtube buffering was slow just because of OpenDNS… Changed to Google’s and all it’s back normal! Thanks!

It didd’nt work and i’m in South Africa

I’m on wireless and it only shows manage wireless networks and I can’t find a place to configure the DNS. I’m on Windows 7. can anyone help me….

@Jess
oh my gosh this realy works thanks!!!!

Instant results…..many thanks!!!

Doesn’t seem to work anymore. I tried both the google DNS and the other 208.67.222.222 DNS. This USED to work a few months ago, but doesn’t seem to work anymore. Youtube loads my HD videos very slowly.

Youtube will load part of the video in a “burst”, but then immediately stop for 10-20secs. Then after 10-20secs it’ll do another “burst” and stop again, repeating this process until the video finally loads.

When I first used this alternative DNS(s) it worked like a charm. No more waiting, just pure 100% loaded video. It worked great. But it doesn’t seem to work anymore. I’m back to waiting again.

With all of that said, I have one of the fastest internet connections available – 35/35 symmetrical. So, I’m 100% sure it’s youtube.

Too bad youtube is starting to slow down now, even with this DNS trick. What’s the point of having HD content if it won’t even load. Then again, I’m anal about waiting 10-20secs. I want to use the full capability of my internet connection!

I tried the firefox add on like someone mention, and it works great . thanks to the poster.

i also tried the dns number and then I couldn’t get connected to the net.

Sweet

Thank you so fucking much (:

U R DHA BEST!!!!! thank uuuuu!!!!

Worked like a charm! :) Thanks!

Is there a like button for this?! Thanks a lot!

This worked for me in Korea. Thank you.

umm, not working for me :/

wow I cant believe this worked, thanks… especially odd since i was using open DNS already…

you’ve saved my life!
thought for a year that the problem was my isp.
works like a clock!

I’m having problems with finding the “Properties” I have Windows Vista if that would help?

AWESOME THIS WORKS PERFECTLY! Thanks a lot!

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!

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

I love you man! it worked!

Wow… Epic find, it works great.

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

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>>>

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…

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

1080p Here I come!

I loaded a 1 hour video with only buffering twice!

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

thanks, it worked like a charm!! :D

Thank You.. your tip helped a lot! :)

I’ve used open dns for years. It just doesn’t work anymore. Videos just won’t load.

Got milk?

Damn straight I do!

thankssssssss so much it great working . me was too bored and angry due to my ptcl evo slow connection on hd type movies . but now it solve problem and loading quickly from youtube . thanks again .

how do u do this on windows 7

i can see any comments