Half the time it won't play videos. It just sits there on a black screen.

At the bottom it usually says 'transferring data from s.ytimg.com'.

I think it's my net. However, I can ping s.ytimg. I can load up the youtube main page.

This problem affects both the upstairs and downstairs pc.

I think it's your net then, I get this VERY occasionaly

This seems to happen quite a bit, and it's annoying. :<

Seems to be working now though.

Depends what the usage of your net is at certain times. As you will probably have 40 people sharing one connection so on peak connection times it will slow down really really REALLY slow

No problems with youtube here and I've only got, oh, a whole university campus

Sharing a frankly insane connection.

Wut? 40 people? I'm not at uni. And I'm pretty sure our ISP serves more than 40 people.

I believe most ISP's will provide a large connection speed with a cap per each household, There will most likely be 40 households per one connection. The entire ISP network is made of of many of those.

Thats as far as I believe I may be wrong....

What you're talking about is contention, and you have it half right, from what I know.

You have contention with other people, usually around 40 (I think my home one is 20 because we got a more expensive people). You will share an internet connection between these people, but that connection has higher bandwidth than what is available to you. This means that you should be fine, except at peak times.

I could be completely wrong, though.

That sounds about right and you do you have a business internet or something? I believe there 20 Damn you and your better internet! Damn YOU!

Heh, I'm at uni, uni net sucks.

Nah, we just got the better home package.

Schlurbs was saying his youtube wont load either today

Mine was slow earlier but its fine now

my youtube works fine. Tho not all videos do i cant stream naruto form the interent anymore! the videos wont load! im well gutted

I generally have few issues with YT, though sometimes videos don't load quickly, that's my internet being rubbish and not YT itself. iPlayer screws up aswell.

Tried the classic ctrl+F5 (force reload)? I find that helps a lot of dodgy pages.

ta i might try that

rage ban it, works for Metty.