YouTube "Feather" Beta

[CJM]

Just came across this & don't remember seeing it mentioned on here. This is an “opt-in” feature that claims that it might be able to speed up your YouTube buffering. It’s an official YouTube program so there’s some real promise in it.

A quote from the link below: "This is an opt-in beta for "Feather" support on YouTube. The "Feather" project is intended to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible. It achieves this by severely limiting the features available to the viewer and making use of advanced web techniques for reducing the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser. It is a work in progress and may not work for all videos."

http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta

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[CJM]

Here's another trick to cut down on YouTube buffering

• Click Start, type cmd, right click on the icon and Run as Administrator to open the command prompt.
• If you see a UAC prompt, click Yes.
• Copy this command: netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”YoutubeBufferTrick” dir=in action=block remoteip=173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 enable=yes
• Right click in the command prompt and select Paste.
• Hit Enter.

If you ever want to remove this alteration from your network, do the same thing except use this command instead:

• netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name=”YoutubeBufferTrick”

Since this trick blocks a wide range of IP addresses, you may run into a site every once in a while that’s blocked by this trick. Use at your own discretion!

The source for all this: Tired Of Buffering? 3 Ways To Speed Up YouTube