Youtube slow video buffering at 1080p?

[kansas_dude]

I never use to experience any buffering issues until the new youtube layout and having to reinstall windows...now I can't watch my purchased shows without the video pausing to buffer at 1080p

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

I'm guessing it's increased network traffic on Youtube that's causing it - - - the site gets much more heavily used since Google took it over & made a lot of TV/Film content free that was previously pay-per-view.

 

[fschins]

The truthful answer is that ISP's are throttling Youtube through DNS filtering and scrambling so they can have more bandwidth for advertisements and information gathering about your online browsing habits

9/10 ISP's are doing this worldwide, a good suggestion is to change to openDNS servers ,either 8.8.8.8 / 8.4.4.4 or other

(https://use.opendns.com/)

using a VPN server or even visiting Youtube through TOR can increase the buffering up to 400%)

Moving the browser cache to a faster hdd/ssd or even a RAMDisk helps too

when doing the cache option a little math (a 1080p video of 60 minutes would be app. 8-12 GB of RAW vaudio/video data cached so have at least 2x that on the RAM/HDD/SSD for the caching)