streaming services other than youtube EXTREMELY slow

[Lourens_1]

a few days ago I bought an online course that I would like to complete that uses as can be expected videos to convey the information. However I realised my videos would always be buffer allot, meaning I would have to open the video and do something else for about an hour just to watch a 10 min video rinse and repeat for each video.

there is obviously something wrong here as I have done a speed test of my internet which is about 6-8 Mb down and 2-4 Mb up but for some reason the videos on the website only download at a rate of about 100 - 200 Kb (bits not bytes) which means I cant even watch these videos in 360p.

youtube uses up to 7 Mb when streaming a video and steam downloads at 1 MB/s on avarage. so is there a way of solving this or alocating more bandwith or something?

please and thanks for any assistance

 

[ss202sl]

Does this happen only at home, or at other places as well.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Are you able to check on a different network to see if the videos load any better there? It's possible the bottleneck is something on their end.

Is it possible to download and save the videos, rather than streaming them?

 

[Lourens_1]

Does this happen only at home, or at other places as well.

I cant confirm this considering its on my PC so I haven't checked.

 

[srimasis]

If you are from USA then this could be due to your ISP. After revoking net neutrality ISPs are now monopolizing and throttling the bandwidth on some websites. If thats the case then we can do nothing about it.

 

[Lourens_1]

Are you able to check on a different network to see if the videos load any better there? It's possible the bottleneck is something on their end.

Is it possible to download and save the videos, rather than streaming them?

I dont know if I would be allowed to do this (I can , but I'm scared they would pick something up and I'd get banned/something)

 

[TJ Hooker]

You could just contact the site you purchased the online course from to see if that's ok. But if they have an actual download available, then that would say to me that they don't mind. I mean, you still paid for the content, and from the server's perspective there isn't a whole lot of difference between someone streaming the video and someone downloading it.

 

[Lourens_1]

You could just contact the site you purchased the online course from to see if that's ok. But if they have an actual download available, then that would say to me that they don't mind. I mean, you still paid for the content, and from the server's perspective there isn't a whole lot of difference between someone streaming the video and someone downloading it.

after starting to download them I can basicly confirm its probably either some form of throttling or too many people on the server etc. because I download them at about 8-15 KB/s so I guess I'll just queue them and then I'll get back to it some other time