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

[Bisuone]

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’ ()
You will likely see a UAC prompt, hit “Yes” ()
The command prompt window will open, this is where you will type in the commands to set your firewall rules )
Enter the following command and hit Enter. If it works, you should see a big “OK”.

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:

netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="MITCHRIBARYTUBE"

[lolkenschlol]

what does that change?

[Bisuone]

Originally Posted by lolkenschlol

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

[.Dave']

Doesn't work, sorry.
Videos were shown as low as before.

[robot609]

I already known this trick, and it works!

[Bisuone]

Originally Posted by robot609

I already known this trick, and it works!

It's not a trick, it's just networking

[v1Dr333s]

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.

[Bisuone]

Originally Posted by v1Dr333s

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.

[Bisuone]

Bump for anyone who would like to try this method.

[Cani.]

Thank You Very Much!