Improve YouTube Buffering, Performance

 Speed I found that like myself, there were thousands of people having this issue even with fast internet connections, and were looking for ways to improve YouTube Buffering and Speed. So I started researching on possible ways to speed up the buffering speed of YouTube. I found a few fixes that improved the buffering speed to an extent where it’s acceptable. The fixes I found is from various websites which some claim it works, and some claim otherwise so it’s more like a hit and miss. Firewall Exceptions Trick: I came across this website mitchribar.com where he has found out that certain ISP tends to throttle bandwidth from the server that caches videos which caused performance issues. So he found the relevant IP range and managed to block them with Windows Firewall, and in return improve the performance because then it doesn’t cache – but directly streams the video from the YouTube server. Personally I didn’t notice any difference, but seems like it helped a lot of users. This is how you can do it:

 Go to Start Menu and type in CMD Then Right click and click on Run as administrator Then copy and paste the following command

 netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”TWCYouTubeFIX” dir=in action=block remoteip=173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 enable=yes

 Performance & Speed on Windows PC Now reboot the system and try to access YouTube and see if it works better. Remember it might take a little more time than usual to start the video because of IP blocking. But once it starts it might be faster. 

If you want to remove this rule, just type the following and hit Enter: netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name=”TWCYouTubeFIX” 

Activate Hidden Services on YouTube There are few services that may help with YouTube buffering. I’ll list like two of the most popular ones that may help you with buffering issues.