Experiencing slow YouTube load times?

Hey everyone. Lately everybody everywhere has been having issues with YouTube videos loading slowly, buffering or never loading at all. The problem has been isolated to a few of their Content Delivery Network proxies (CDNs) and some bandwidth throttling being done by ISPs. If you've been experiencing a terrible YouTube experience, check out this easy solution which I found on Reddit:

Using Windows Firewall, IPTables (on Linux), the Firewall feature of your router or by some other method, block access of your computer to the following IP Subnet: 206.111.0.0/16

Here is a tutorial on how to block an IP range in Windows Firewall.

For linux, use this IPTables line: iptables -I FORWARD -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 206.111.0.0/16 -j REJECT

If anyone has any questions on how to implement it, I can address those in this thread.

Additionally, this is not a particularly difficult task, but you're mucking about in areas of you computer which can cause undesired operation if misconfigured (ESPECIALLY IPTables). If you're not comfortable doing this, don't.

I've been having some of these issues lately as well. Thanks for the help! I might try some of these out.

Eh, it worked great for me earlier, but now I'm getting really long load times and lots of buffering again. C'iest la vie.