[How to]Fix youtube videos not loading/buffering!

Backstory:
I have fios, and sometime a fews ago, I started having youtube video freeze one me(even on 360p and even 144p), at First I though it was a wifi problem, but it was only youtube, other sites would load, both HTML5 and flash video players had this happen, so I figured it was just a problem with the linux version of flash player, so I watched videos on my windows 7 pc, had less problems, but still has some issues, as time when on, chrome on win 7 would not load any videos, then after that firefox had the problem... then I could not load any youtube video after 5pm nothing would load. very odd problem.


so I managed to find this post:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28071070-How-to-Reddit-YouTube-firewall-rule-with-MI424wr

it blocks access to a caching server, and after following the instructions I was able to load 5 vids in a row in HD with no problems, on wifi!

Looks like Verizon was sending me to a cashing server to save them some bandwidth!

if you're having this problem, try the steps in the link it may help you too!

(note: id I miss used a term, or did not explain something right, let me know!)

if that dose not work, it could mean it's a buffering issue, 
After doing the fix in the post above, I would occasionally freeze up,
to fix this and disable the new youtube feature where it only bufferes the first few mins, install this extension:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/114002
then restart your browser, open a youtube video, and you'll be greeted by a welcome to youtube center screen,
click 'go to settings'  click 'player' in the menu and uncheck 'dash playback'.
click the 'x' in the top right, and reload the video.

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Thanks so much. This fixed my issue.

Great topic!
It's one of the methods to slove videos lagging. Beyond that, there are many other related ways, as well.
1. Clear your browser's cache, cookies and histories. Meanwhile, update browser to fix YouTube lagging if you're used to playing YouTube videos with a specified browser.
2. Update Adobe Flash Player and disable the hard acceleration in browser.
3. Some third-party tool will block YouTube to play videos smoothly, close them to try videos agian.
What's more, if there are a few videos that you can't watch smoothly beacuse of limited factors, just download them with easy steps: http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/fix-youtube-videos-lagging.html

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Didn't even know this method existed. It does stop loading after the fisrt few mins. for not-so-famous browsers over android and less-supported platforms like ps4 and xbox, if you aren't getting it to work through the app, youtube.com/html5 is the goto place, usually. but i didn't know this was possible until recenlty, especially if flash's support is iffy.