Tips To Speed Up Youtube Videos Buffering-Increase Buffering Speed more than 3 Times

Posted by Imran on Sunday, January 22, 2012

We all know that Youtube is the best video sharing network with more than 3 Billion views per day.All of us watch youtube videos.But the toughest part comes when youtube videos buffers(Especially when you have a slow Internet connection).Here I am giving some Tips to Speed Up Youtube Videos Buffering Speed Keep Reading.
Also it is strongly recommended to read follow articles on increasing net/PC speed:

On What Factors Does Youtube Buffering Speed Depend?

Its very simple,youtube videos buffering speed mostly depends on your Internet Speed.

Anyways if you have a slow internet connection then here are some Tips to Speed Up youtube Videos Buffering Speed.

Tips To Speed Up Youtube Videos Buffering:
1.Increase your Internet speed by 20%:
This is a very old trick to speed up your internet connection.This trick increases your net speed by 20% which means you are increasing your youtube videos buffering speed as well.

Microsoft windows reserves 20% of your available badwith for their own purposes like updates and interrogating with your PC etc.
Important: If a bandwidth limit is set for a particular network adapter in the registry, this setting is ignored when configuring that network adapter.

Follow these steps to increase your internet connection speed by 20%:-
* Click on start, select run and type "gpedit.msc".
* select to LOCAL COMPUTER POLICY>COMPUTER CONFIGURATION>ADMNISTRATIVE TEMPELATES>NETWORK> QOS PACKET SHEDULER>LIMIT RESERVABLE BANDWITH.
* Double click on "limit reservable bandwith" and then select "enable" snd edit the bandwith to O.
Its a nice trick...!! try it and get internet speed 20% more..!!
Note:For some versions of windows like windows home and basic versions don't have gpedit.msc command,in that case just ignore this trick not a big deal and follow the below tricks.

2.Join Youtube Feather Beta:
This is a new Youtube Project called Youtube Feather Beta.
Go to Youtube Feather Beta[this link] and click on join youtube feather beta.Now search for videos and start watching,you should have already found the difference in speeds before and after.

Limitations:

In youtube feather beta you dont see many comments.
You will not be able to like or dislike the video.
You will get only 5 suggested or related videos.

The bandwidth which is used to load these things will be utilised to speed up the videos.If you dont like this version then you can leave youtube feather beta at any time.

3.Use Youtube DNS:

Using Youtube open DNS will help you in speed up the youtube video buffering.

For Windows XP users:

1. Go to Control Panel from the Start menu.
2. Click on Network Connections from the Control Panel choices.
3. Choose your connection from the Network Connections window.
4. Click Properties button.
5. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties.
6. Click the radio button Use the following DNS server addresses and type in OpenDNS addresses in the Preferred DNS server and Alternate DNS server fields.
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

For Windows 7 Users:

1.Go to control Panel.
2.Click on Network and Internet then click on Network and Sharing Center.
3.Click on Change adapter settings(at left side).
4.Right Click on Local Area Connection then select Properties button.
5.Double click on Internet Protocol version 4 (TCP/IPv4).
(dont change any thing in IP address)
6. Click the on Use the following DNS server addresses
and
type
Preferred DNS server: 208.67.222.222
and
Alternate DNS server: 208.67.220.220

Then click ok and its done!

4.Speed up youtube videos Buffering with SpeedBit Video Accelerator:

Not only for YouTube, the software works well with more then 165 video sites like Yahoo Video, Facebook, Aol Video, Myspace, ESPN, and many more . You just need to install the software and it will take care of the rest. The free version works with all the normal videos but for accelerating HD (High Definition) videos you need to upgrade to premium version.
SpeedBit Video Accelerator[Download from here]

5.Increase Youtube Buffering Speed by changing the Video Quality:
You can also speed up Youtube videos buffering by changing the quality of videos to low quality like 240p,360p etc.Use this when you have to do nothing with the quality of videos.

6.Get a Good Internet Plan with good Net Speed:
With the above tweaks you can speed up your youtube videos buffering more than thrice but if you really want a very good buffering then getting a good subscription plan with good net speed is a wise thing.

Hope that my Tips on Speeding us Youtube Videos Buffering helped you.Those who have tried leave your comment.If you have any more tricks then share us in your comments.