YouTube HQ is taking a long time to download.

CoryBantic

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Is it me or does Youtube HQ videos take a long time to download? Is there a quicker method of viewing Youtube vids in hq, perhaps a setting function? Or is it me?
 
Is it me or does Youtube HQ videos take a long time to download? Is there a quicker method of viewing Youtube vids in hq, perhaps a setting function? Or is it me?

It depends on what you mean by "a long time". For me, HQ videos start up within about 15-20 seconds. I've assumed that's normal. Once they start, they play straight through without pause. I'm on a wifi connection when I watch HQ, not 3G.
 
That is a good point. While on 4g, it loads in about 5-10 seconds. On 3g, sometimes it doesn't load at all. I don't use WiFi much, but I would expect 4g like load times.
 
I don't think it's really the phone. Sometimes I have major issues downloading low quality youtube on my PC! (And no, it's not my internet, every other site/video loads extremely fast) It's just YouTube's servers get loaded down sometimes, and since YouTube uses local caching servers, your wifi will often access a different YouTube server than you would over 3G/4G.
 
Is this your first smartphone or what? Of course if you aren't getting good service where you are its not going to load HQ fast.
 
Don't even try it over 3G. It works fine over 4G and WiFi, better on WiFi though.
 
That is a good point. While on 4g, it loads in about 5-10 seconds. On 3g, sometimes it doesn't load at all. I don't use WiFi much, but I would expect 4g like load times.

Yep, 3G is pretty spotty. I've waited several minutes but have also gotten (HQ) vids to stream in 10-15 seconds.
 

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