Why are videos buffering?

relztrah · May 10, 2024

I'm watching a training video that is constantly buffering. Two other co-workers are watching the same videos without any buffering. They have newer machines running Windows 11, but they're on the same wireless network. I have this processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.71 GHz with 16 GB of memory. Here is display information.

I'm using Chrome browser. Are there any changes I can make in the settings to prevent buffering? For what it's worth, YouTube videos don't buffer. Only from this one website.

xrobwx71 · May 10, 2024

relztrah said:
I'm watching a training video that is constantly buffering. Two other co-workers are watching the same videos without any buffering.

How close to the wireless router are you? How close are they?

Does yours still buffer even when they are not watching the video?

relztrah said:
Only from this one website.

That website could have limited bandwidth. YouTube has many servers across the world and you are likely pulling from one that's closer to you than the website.

relztrah · May 13, 2024

xrobwx71 said:
How close to the wireless router are you? How close are they?

We use the wireless pod system and I'm about 10 feet from a pod. So in fact I'm closer to a pod than the other employees are.

xrobwx71 said:
Does yours still buffer even when they are not watching the video?

Yes.

xrobwx71 said:
That website could have limited bandwidth. YouTube has many servers across the world and you are likely pulling from one that's closer to you than the website.

I think you're on to something here. The training videos are from a small company. Also, I'm using an aging HP ProBook and my coworkers are each using a nearly new Dell Latitude. Could that be the determining factor?

xrobwx71 · May 13, 2024

relztrah said:
Could that be the determining factor?

Absolutely.

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