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Friday, April 25, 2014

How to stop Youtube from Sucking! (Ludicrous Amounts of Buffering)

Chris and I were talking about this today and he thought I should re-post the info up here.  I saw this a while a go on the web and I need to give credit where it's due.  I got the info from here:
http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-windows-guide/

Basically you'll be adding a firewall rule to block certain things that YouTube does and cut way back on the amount of buffering it does.  If you still have a stubborn video just pause it and let it buffer for a minute and then start it.  I can't tell you how much better YouTube runs after doing this.  You pretty much have to experience it yourself.

The instructions below are an almost verbatim copy from this blog and i'm only adding them here for redundancy sake.  I also wanted to mention that you can add a router block rule to do the same thing for the sub-nets below and it'd handle it for every device that you have on it.

One more note: Mitch - Thank you!

  1. Click the Start button, type “cmd”, and right click the icon to ‘Run As Administrator’ 
  2. You will likely see a UAC prompt, hit “Yes” 
  3. The command prompt window will open, this is where you will type in the commands to set your firewall rules 
  4. Enter the following command and hit Enter. If it works, you should see a big “OK”.
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="MITCHRIBARYTUBE" dir=in action=block remoteip=173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 enable=yes
Rules can be easily removed too. Just get back into the command prompt in the same way and run this command, hit Enter again:
netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="MITCHRIBARYTUBE"

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