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Have a video to watch on youtube and it keeps buffering, stopping every few seconds . Feels like just close the tab because it is so frustrating , but I keep trying , because you just have to watch it. This problem often occurs when using a slow connection, but there is an easy solution that works for me. I have been using a broadband connection in the past two months, but just last weekend , I went out of town and my broadband modem was useless where I was . I had to use a slow dial-up connection and Youtube videos buffering reserved for eternity , as
Watch Youtube Videos Without Any Buffering Struck On Mobile And Slow Internet Connection
  • You would not want to watch YouTube videos without buffering; 
  • Even a few seconds buffering feels like centuries? 
  • Then this article is just for you. No other video buffering! Lets put an end to it. If it is not an end, let's try to reduce it to the maximum. 
  • In this article, I will share with you some of the interesting tips that will definitely reduce buffering on YouTube and will enhance your viewing experience. 
  • What are these interesting tips? Out

It Happen's With Buffering With Slow Internet Connection Pc Or Mobile

Say you're watching a romantic movie . The hero is ready to propose the heroine . This is how it is supposed to look - "Juliet, I would like to say something many days . Loves it! "

However , because of its buffering to YouTube, the scene will look rather - "Juliet, - buffer - I wanted to - buffer - buffer - to tell you something - buffer - buffer - buffer - many days . - Buffer - buffer - buffer - buffer - I - buffer - buffer - buffer - buffer - buffer ..... "

Can you imagine that ! How many times have we come across such situations in our daily life while watching videos on YouTube; Just when something terrible is going to happen , the video starts buffering.

And I know how it feels ! There are no words to express this feeling . I almost feel like banging your laptop in something.

Well , this will not happen anymore. I have a few smart tips to reduce buffering videos of YouTube.
For some of you who have an average Internet connection around 1Mbps, these tips should completely eliminate buffering for others who have lower speeds around 256Kbps to 512kbps can expect minimal buffering.

Here is the trick to watch YouTube videos without Buffering

1. YouTube Feather

YouTube is a part of the Internet giant Google, has always looked for ways to improve its services.

With a striking increase of users over the years, Google wants to ensure that videos load and play quickly. This is the reason why Google introduced a new feature called YouTube Feather (currently an opt-in beta

Not everyone has a fast connection to the internet. New features such as 1080p HD video have significantly slowed the loading times . Thus , this optimization is clearly an attempt by YouTube to cater to millions of users in ceiling or limit speed Internet connections .

YouTube Feather makes use of advanced techniques to serve web pages YouTube video to users in a fastest possible way . Restricts various features and the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser make videos stream faster than ever before.

You can easily notice the difference between the regular YouTube videos and YouTube video Lightning . Not only in terms of faster flow without buffering, but also in terms of the amount of data downloaded by the browser . For example , the browser downloaded 52 kilobytes of data for the video on YouTube Feather, compared with the standard 391 Kilobytes page YouTube.

Lightning disables most of the AJAX features in YouTube. Therefore can not comment on video (the number of loaded comments are only 10 ) . Just have three basic actions available: a favorite video to highlight a video and subscribe to a channel . It can even rate videos , however , related videos remain limited to 5.

But if you are just interested in watching the video , none of this will not matter to you, and you can not notice the difference.
To start using YouTube Feather:

  1. Visit our YouTube Feather Beta here
  2. Click the link that says Join the beta "Feather" and you're done. 
To return to the default YouTube: 
  1. Click Only this time - to watch this video in normal mode or 
  2. Fixed - to return to normal operation throughout the year, as shown in the screenshot below.
Watch Youtube Videos Without Any Buffering Struck On Mobile And Slow Internet Connection
If a quick question popped up in your mind says - Does YouTube Feather reduce the quality of the video?

Well do not say it directly, but say they Feather reduce waiting times, reducing the available functions and the total byte size downloaded. So, I would go on the assumption that yes, the video quality may suffer slightly and you can not find top quality HD content on the wing.
2. The Ultra-Low 144p video quality
Watch Youtube Videos Without Any Buffering Struck On Mobile And Slow Internet Connection
Recently, YouTube has introduced a new ultra-low bandwidth video quality option to view 144p. The move was largely aimed at users who have a slower Internet connection or those who watch videos on their mobile.

All these days, there were qualities 1080p HD video between 240p.
Just click the icon as shown in the screenshot above and select 144p.

This option is not available on all videos now. But certainly a lot videos have this option image quality.

The quality of picture and sound is not all that great. But it will definitely serve the purpose of watching YouTube videos without buffering.

You may want to take a look at this cool video test 144p picture quality.
3 . Using Public DNS Servers

Changing DNS server settings on your computer to use OpenDNS or Google Public DNS will definitely reduce buffering YouTube videos while increasing the speed of your browser .

Google says that using the services of Internet Public DNS can boost the speed of your browsing by optimizing the routes between you and your destination servers .

Change DNS settings on your computer are different for different versions of Windows. In Windows 7 & 8,
  1.  Open the Control Panel . Under Network and Internet, click on " View network status and tasks " .
  2.  Look for the word " Links " and click on the link next to it.
  3.  In the new window , click "Properties " .
  4. Now again click on " Properties" in the new window .
  5.  Select " Use the following server address DNS:" and enter
Preferred server DNS: 8.8.8.8
Backup server DNS: 8.8.4.4

To change the DNS settings in other versions of Windows:
4. Bypass ISP Throttling

Some Internet Service Providers (ISP) usually controls the bandwidth and download speeds of connections. We will assist you saved video instead of actual video from YouTube.

This will reduce the speed at which videos YouTube is served to you and lead to high buffering .

To overcome this, a guy called Mitch Ribar posted a nice bite . So , all credit to him.

1. Click Start, type cmd in search , right-click the icon and " Run as administrator" . ( If you have Windows 8, Vista or XP, you may want to Google - " How to open the command prompt as an administrator in Windows [ version ] " ; )

2 . Enter this command :

Watch Youtube Videos Without Any Buffering Struck On Mobile And Slow Internet Connection
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name = "YoutubeBufferTrick" dir = in action = remoteip block = 173.194.55.0/24, 206.111.0.0/16 enable = yes

3 . Right-click on Command Prompt , click Paste and press Enter.

It is all done ! There is no longer cached copy of the video can be served . You now have video played directly from the servers of YouTube. So , obviously , less buffering and better viewing experience .

Well , this block trick wide range of IP addresses and therefore may occasionally run into a website that is blocked by this trick . In such scenarios , you may want to disable the tweak :

Similar to above , open the command prompt as administrator.

Type this line and press enter.

netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name = "YoutubeBufferTrick"
Note : You must be careful when using these tweaks on the command line . If you are not very computer savvy , better to avoid using this last bite .

Last Thoughts

I just hope these tricks will help you to watch YouTube videos without buffering.

In the world , not everyone has a faster Internet connection and I'm sure these tips will come in handy for those of you.

Do you have any other tips to upload YouTube videos faster? What do you feel about the tricks mentioned in this article ?

Let me know about them from the following observations .

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