I have Brave browser which blocks ads, I have Chrome with an ad blocker, and I have Firefox which allows YT ads.
Buffering occurs on all 3. Even does it on my own YouTube channel with my own personal drone videos (as the content creator).
Hi Paul_I 👋.
Thanks for reaching out to us. Apologies for the issues that you are having with buffering. Can we ask your current set up, ie, spec of the PC/Laptop also how you are connecting to your home network via ethernet and is the cable sufficient to cater for the speeds you have ie Cat5e and above. If it is connected via WiFi are you connected to the right bandwidth channel for the spec of your device being used, and is this signal being obtained through a third party device such as a WiFi extender?
Please let us know.
Sabrina
PC is running on hard wired ethernet cable (either a Cat5 or Cat6, not sure which) from your Hub 4 router, the computer is an Intel Core I7 4790 @ $.00Ghz, 16Gb DDR3 RAM, Monitor is the LG ULTRAGEAR (2560x1440@144Hz) and a 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (EVGA) graphics card.
Paul.
I get this too, so it seems the problem is with YouTube and their ad servers. I have some of these blocked but the ads still get through. It also suggests that I reset my device (DDR3 16gb desktop PC) if it keeps happening. Refreshing the page seems to sort it out. I consider and treat adverts as spam and always rate my "ad experience" as average. Less adverts, better products.
The current thing appears to be cheap plug in heaters and how some random college kid/some random blokes who are busting the expensive heaters myth. These can be bought in a well known German supermarket for £7.99...
There have also been problems with *all* Chromium based browsers recently and they should be updated. More info can be found here https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Tech-Chatter/Update-your-browser/m-p/5460090#M54632 where there are a couple of videos which explain what is going on.
MrHalfAsleep wrote:I get this too, so it seems the problem is with YouTube and their ad servers. I have some of these blocked but the ads still get through.
Google is really going out of their way to make life hard for people that don't want ads, by doing extreme throttling. I've haven't used youtube for some years now, so I don't follow all the issues much. I just know that they have gone anti-ad insane. 🙂
@Sabrina_B Would replacing the Hub4 with a Hub5 help?
Paul.
No it wouldn't really make a different, I've taken a look on our side and everything is looking great.
Can you post your BQM here we can monitor it and see if shows anything we can't spot. Cheers
I've done that Matthew _ML, what do I do next?
