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How can I make videos on the internet load quicker?

For a couple of months now, videos on the internet have taken a very long time to load like on YouTube, Daily Motion, Metacafe or whatever. The internet loads up fine, within seconds even. The page that has the video on it loads up quickly as well but the actual videos just takes a very long time to load. Also my computer itself switches on very quickly as well, its just videos on the internet that take a while. Is there something I can do to make them load quicker?

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1. hmm... well try gping to the youtube homepage and download the google chrome web browser. since google and youtube work together, google chromes internet with youtube and those video website is ALOT faster. you can downlad it on the homepage of youtube... hope this helps you! Here is a link to my youtube channel if you want to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/JoeThatsMe13
2. in youtube you can use the "feather" Feature
3. If you are experiencing either: A) slugglish loading or buffering, B) that "spinning circle" looking like it will keep on "spinning" forever, C) "choppy" videos that start/stop/start/stop frequently, or D) vids that sometimes come to a complete stop, maybe your cache/memory is full and thus can't take anymore. Exit out of YouTube (but not your browser) and do one of the steps below. Afterwards, shutdown and reboot. Not only will this "free up" your computer's memory, everything will be "fresh", and load faster: Internet Explorer 6: → Tools → Internet Options → Delete Cookies → OK → Delete Files → OK → Clear History → Yes → OK Internet Explorer 7: → Tools → Internet Options → Delete... → Delete files → Yes → Delete cookies → OK → Delete history → OK → Close (browsing history window) → OK Internet Explorer 8: → Tools → Delete Browsing History [. ] Preserve Favorites (leave blank) [x] Temporary Internet files [x] Cookies [x] History → Delete Mozilla Firefox 3: → Tools → Clear Private Data [x] Browsing History [x] Download History [x] Saved Form and Search History [x] Cache [x] Cookies → Clear Private Data Now Mozilla Firefox 3.5: → Tools → Clear Recent History Time range to clear: → Everything ▼ Details [x] Browsing & Download History [x] Saved Form and Search History [x] Cookies [x] Cache → Clear Now Apple Safari 3: → Edit → Preferences → Security (tab) → Show Cookies → Remove All → Done after that: → Safari → Empty Cache → Empty after that: → History → Clear History Google Chrome: → Tools (wrench) → Clear browsing data... [x] Clear browsing history [x] Clear download history [x] Empty the cache [x] Delete cookies Clear data from this period: → Everything → Clear Browsing Data DON'T FORGET TO SHUT DOWN AND REBOOT AFTER DOING ONE OF THE ABOVE. If you have other applications which are running at the same time, those will slow down YouTube too. If you've got 'Torrents', you might want to consider closing or uninstalling them. A couple people who chose me as "Best Answer" wrote that everything worked great after they'd uninstalled their Torrents. For some reason, simply closing them didn't work. Also, "Adblock Plus", various Instant Messengers and every "stupid video accelerator" under the sun is known to interfere with YouTube. Another thing you may want to consider is turning off your anti-virus -- but only momentarily. As long as you remain on YouTube (and don't scamper off to other websites), you will be okay, because you cannot get a virus from YouTube.