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Super-slow download, only working in short bursts?
Hi folks, Today I'm trying to download a smallish video off youtube and it seems extremely slow. Data saver is turned off, and I'm showing my "normal" 1-2MB download speed, but it's only downloading f...
I see that with YouTube sometimes, and I think the issue is with them, with the technology they use for their videos. Someone else may have a better answer, though.
- Yeah, I found this: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/49490/is-youtube-throttling-video-downloads-now And at the mention of "popular" videos not being slow and unpopular ones being very slow, I tried downloading from two people I follow on youtube who have very large followings (2M and 823K ) and those downloaded in a SNAP! So sadly the poor person with a Patreon and Youtube channel with only 255 subscribers gets the pokey speeds. That sucks but I'm sure it's because Youtube makes more $$ of the big guys. Well at least now I know.
And for anyone who might ask, System status is all good, and I'm 6 days away from a new month, but still have 8GB left...but yeah it's as likely that it's Hughesnet as it is Youtube.
Yeah, I found this: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/49490/is-youtube-throttling-video-downloads-now And at the mention of "popular" videos not being slow and unpopular ones being very slow, I tried downloading from two people I follow on youtube who have very large followings (2M and 823K ) and those downloaded in a SNAP! So sadly the poor person with a Patreon and Youtube channel with only 255 subscribers gets the pokey speeds. That sucks but I'm sure it's because Youtube makes more $$ of the big guys. Well at least now I know.
Wow, that's very interesting!
