[How To] Make Youtube Faster - User-Friendly Guide

07/13/2013 16:17 Bisuone#1
I saw this on reddit a couple months ago and since trying it out it has made my youtube playback to improve a lot. Few of my friends have done this and they said it also improved their youtube playback.

You will have blazingly fast Youtube streaming (and Twitch.tv) by running a few commands to reject certain IP addresses. Also, remember that this will cause the stream to take 1-2 seconds to start because of the IP block handling, but then you are greeted with a silky smooth, ultra fast experience. Enough talking. Here’s what you need to do:

Click the Start button, type “cmd”, and right click the icon to ‘Run As Administrator’ ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...])
You will likely see a UAC prompt, hit “Yes” ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...])
The command prompt window will open, this is where you will type in the commands to set your firewall rules [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...])
Enter the following command and hit Enter. If it works, you should see a big “OK”.

Code:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="MITCHRIBARYTUBE" dir=in action=block remoteip=173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 enable=yes
Rules can be easily removed too. Just get back into the command prompt in the same way and run this command, hit Enter again:
Code:
netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="MITCHRIBARYTUBE"
07/14/2013 21:32 lolkenschlol#2
what does that change?
07/14/2013 21:38 Bisuone#3
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Originally Posted by lolkenschlol View Post
what does that change?
You're simply blocking Youtube's default IP to force the site to route you through one of their secondary IP addresses which has less traffic and thus more bandwidth available for you.

In short, you will notice significantly faster buffer speeds on 720p and 1080p videos :)
07/14/2013 22:35 .Dave'#4
Doesn't work, sorry.
Videos were shown as low as before.
07/14/2013 23:52 robot609#5
I already known this trick, and it works!
07/15/2013 09:39 Bisuone#6
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Originally Posted by robot609 View Post
I already known this trick, and it works!
It's not a trick, it's just networking :)
07/15/2013 22:31 v1Dr333s#7
Funktioniert bei mir :)
Bei der IP sollte aber 173.194.55.0/24.206.111.0.0/16
und nicht 173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 stehen.
07/16/2013 18:28 Bisuone#8
Quote:
Originally Posted by v1Dr333s View Post
Funktioniert bei mir :)
Bei der IP sollte aber 173.194.55.0/24.206.111.0.0/16
und nicht 173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 stehen.
I'm glad it works for you! :) Just trying to help.
10/22/2013 13:28 Bisuone#9
Bump for anyone who would like to try this method.
10/29/2013 20:42 Cani.#10
Thank You Very Much! :D