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YouTube terrible speed and buffering

Alecmac007
4: Newbie

I am on Vodafone fibre so just under a year and no problems getting 10mbps but over the last 5 days I am getting terrible performance on YouTube on wifi on all devices. It either buffers, doesn’t play video and occasionally I get a period of a few minutes with no problems.

I have rebooted router and reset firmware and spoke to  Vodafone but no solution. If I connect to mobile data all is good, and all other streaming video sites work fantastic and my wifi speed is always good. Any ideas?

 

 

 

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As posted in another thread:

Google Play app installation / update issue: https://youtube.com/shorts/uarJGxZeuSo?feature=share

YouTube issue (PC - without browser extensions): https://youtu.be/uZGhIMrjXqk

 

Should anyone else need to submit evidence. When I last spoke to somebody I was told "nobody else has raised this issue". How true that is I do not know.

Hi just raised this with support and they have gone back to it being an issue with YouTube and Google and not routing of information.

so not much help at all, I explained that a vpn solved it but that didn’t help.

not sure how best to proceed as I am not being taken seriously to explore in more detail 



That pretty much sums up most of my conversations with them especially through live chat.
Only way I've been able to have so much as an issue raised is through the social media team who take an eternity to respond.

I called about an early exit from my contract which I may take as I'm at my wits' end with troubleshooting this when every person I've spoken to so far has practically told me it's a me problem.

Will wait and see what the "tech team" come back with but it's more likely i'll be moving to another provider ASAP.

Have reached out to there twitter support team hopefully someone can get this escalated.

 

 

Absolutely feel the pain, no one seems to have it down as an existing problem. It is a problem which is not related to Vodaphone which is definitely not the case.

I mentioned the forum thread but they ignored me 

Thanks to those also raising it.

Yeah the live chat is especially guilty of just flat out ignoring anything you say. It's as if the support just aren't equipped to deal with issues that aren't at the user level and it's like hitting your head against a brick wall trying to make any progress.

I reached out to the twitter team on Sunday but because of the very slow responses there it took until Monday evening for them to confirm my account details. Since then they have asked for more info (despite it being in the forum posts that I linked to), and then they asked me to install an app and said "I'd like to check some settings with you, as we'd need to complete these before being able to raise this issue with our tech team". So I installed the app - despite not being able to do so on the Vodafone network(!) - then after another pause they finally said "As you're on the premium Pro Broadband service, you’ve a dedicated team available to you called our WiFi Xperts. It's not something we can support here over Social Media". But then they just provided a link which just took me back to TOBI (the automated bot) and gave me the Vodafone telephone support numbers.
Two days to confirm my account detail and then two further days of faff before being told I have the wrong type of account so they cannot proceed, i.e. they cannot - in their own words - "raise this issue with our tech team"
! That's an infuriating waste of my time!
I have no intention of sitting on hold while paying for the phone call, and undoubtedly starting the whole story from the beginning and being asked to "turn it off and on again", "try a different browser", and "reset my configs", etc. all in an attempt to just let Vodafone know that they've got a fault on their network.
I've asked for 50% off my bill in September and - if necessary - every further month until the fault is fixed.

Jayach
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

@cakemonitor 

Your experience of dealing with the social media team entirely tallies with mine. They are basically useless. I'd say they weren't fit for purpose, except I can't work out what their purpose is.

I am also try the twitter route but fully expect very little help tbh. I suspect the best route will be to either look to exit my contract or as others have mentioned ask for a hefty discount until it is resolved. It’s unusable for me and my family as it stands.

Mac @ twitter has told me he has escalated the issue and given me a fault reference.

 

See what happens hopefully they will take it seriously he also said a technician will call me at some point.