Wifi issues with video

rolltide78 · Sep 17, 2010

Has anyone experienced buffering issues when streaming video over Wifi from youtube? I can't seem to get a smooth video to play in it's entirety whether I'm at home or elsewhere over Wifi. It's definitely a buffering issue. Is there a setting to lower the quality or to fix the buffer? Thanks.

RTR

DannyBoy · Sep 17, 2010

I seem to have this too... It's kinda hit or miss. I have 10mb/sec wifi at the house and sometimes it will take forever to buffer a video that plays just fine on my wifi netbook. There isn't any settings to adjust so not sure why it hangs sometimes.

JTSVMktg · Sep 17, 2010

rolltide78 said:
Has anyone experienced buffering issues when streaming video over Wifi from youtube? I can't seem to get a smooth video to play in it's entirety whether I'm at home or elsewhere over Wifi. It's definitely a buffering issue. Is there a setting to lower the quality or to fix the buffer? Thanks.

RTR

YES Mine was buffering as well.

I found the fix made the adjustments to wifi settings and re-watched videos that where buffering and they play smooth without any issues.

John T. Snelson V

Youtube on iPhone or iPad Problems? - CollierPress
Phone or iPad Problems?

It seems that sometimes when I try and watch a youtube video on my iPad or iPhone that sometimes the buffering for the video is very sluggish. VERY SLUGGISH. Then, when i go to my iMac it works amazingly fast.

WHAT'S THE DEAL?

So here is a fix that worked for me:

On the iPhone or iPad go to Settings, WIFI, then tap on the little blue arrow next to your Network.

Once in there; tap on the DNS field and change the number to either one of these numbers:

208.67.222.222

or

208.67.220.220

Then simply try it out. My iPad and iPhone both streamed HD YouTube videos fast like it should be! Awesome!

I hope it works for you.

rolltide78 · Sep 17, 2010

So far this works for me on videos that actually play. So far 5 out of 10 have said "This movie format is not supported".

JTSVMktg · Sep 17, 2010

Format would be a different issue have you installed journeylite yet?
It seems to be the best browser and compatible with most formats. I know things that wouldn't load in safari app load through journeylite.

John T.

JTSVMktg · Sep 17, 2010

Some youtube is a flash issue, I normally don't watch youtube but it works better going through the youtube app on phone for me. This fix worked but when I go through a browser it gives the 'flash needed for this video". Have you installed "JourneyLite" yet? It is my main browser because some formats not supported in safari work in JourneyLite.

I think your formating is flash related from my quick testing between youtube app, JourneyLite and safari.

John T.

rolltide78 · Sep 17, 2010

oh ok. The only one I'm using is the "stock" YouTube app. I'm not using Safari or Journey Lite. I do have "Frash" installed as well.

JTSVMktg · Sep 17, 2010

rolltide78 said:
oh ok. The only one I'm using is the "stock" YouTube app. I'm not using Safari or Journey Lite. I do have "Frash" installed as well.

There you go again throwing the "JB" issue at me again....... reminding me just how unfortunate I am however it is not my fault that this is my 2nd iPhone4 in 2 weeks. I've finally realized the phone as great as it is has many software issues and was not created to actually be driven to the extreme.

John T.

kenejhnsn · Sep 17, 2010

This seems to be awidespread issue with the iphone4 and wifi. just do a google search for slow wifi on iphone4 and you will see what i mean. Like someone said above i changed my dns settings but i am using the google settings (8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4)
and this did seem to help quite a bit as well as resetting network settings prior to this. I still have an issue sometimes but not near as much as i used too. still hoping apple fixes this on one of there updates. hope this helps.

rolltide78 · Sep 17, 2010

JTSVMktg said:
rolltide78 said:

oh ok. The only one I'm using is the "stock" YouTube app. I'm not using Safari or Journey Lite. I do have "Frash" installed as well.

Click to expand...

There you go again throwing the "JB" issue at me again....... reminding me just how unfortunate I am however it is not my fault that this is my 2nd iPhone4 in 2 weeks. I've finally realized the phone as great as it is has many software issues and was not created to actually be driven to the extreme.

John T.