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Make YouTube videos load fast and stop excess buffering
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This wikiHow guide teaches you how to improve YouTube video loading speeds on your computer, phone, or tablet. While there is no way to guarantee faster performance after a certain point, there are a few things that you can do to decrease the amount of time that YouTube videos take to load.
Get YouTube to Load Faster: Quick Fixes
- Close background programs and unneeded browser tabs.
- Switch to ethernet or move closer to your Wi-Fi router.
- Decrease the video quality.
- Change your DNS servers to Google's free DNS.
- Clear your cache and cookies.
- Stop streaming or downloading on other networked devices.
- Restart your router.
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- You should check your Internet's speed before contacting your internet service provider to report slow internet. This will give you and the provider an idea of how severe the slowdown is, which may help pinpoint the problem.Thanks
- Ultimately, your YouTube buffer speed will depend on your Internet plan. You may need to increase your plan's speed to achieve your desired load times.Thanks
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