Guide: Make YouTube load a LOT faster

[Mave]

This works insanely good. Enjoying a load-free youtube now.



Here's how it works

You're blocking a tool that's being used to slow down loading streams on Time Warner Cable connections in order to save money. Which violates net neutrality.
Basically you're telling YouTube that it can't find the other lanes to use so it's forcing it establish a direct connection all of the time instead of sourcing parts of the video from different locations.

Now; the guide

1 Click the Start button, type “cmd”, and right click the icon to ‘Run As Administrator’ (Screenshot 1)
2 You will likely see a UAC prompt, hit “Yes” (Screenshot 2)
3 The command prompt window will open, this is where you will type in the commands to set your firewall rules (Screenshot 3)
4 Enter the following command and hit Enter. If it works, you should see a big “OK”.

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

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Source: http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-windows-guide/

 

[Impulse]

But youtube videos already load pretty fast for me.

 

[Fries]

This is for time warner cable users because twc are dicks that throttle your connection when you use too much bandwidth. This circumvents the caching service they use to do that.

 

[Mave]

This is for time warner cable users because twc are dicks that throttle your connection when you use too much bandwidth. This circumvents the caching service they use to do that.

But.. I don't have time warner cable, and this did make my YouTube a lot faster, I never have to pre-load a video again. (that white little circle)

 

[Fries]

Perhaps your isp uses the same methods as twc?

 

[Mave]

Perhaps your isp uses the same methods as twc?

That's possible

 

[Stybar]

Perhaps your isp uses the same methods as twc?

That's possible

Telenet?
It works for me too, btw.

 

[Mave]

Perhaps your isp uses the same methods as twc?

That's possible

Telenet?
It works for me too, btw.

Belgacom, so I guess a lot of ISPs use this method.