| Over the years YouTube has grown in popularity | | | | temporary RAM. Obviously, reading and writing data |
| enormously and watching YouTube videos has | | | | into RAM is much faster compare to hard disk which |
| become a hobby for many people. Its so addicting that | | | | uses moving-head to read and write data that's why it |
| many people stay up till wee hours of the morning just | | | | will not only increase the buffer speed but also affect |
| to watch their favorite videos. But, I guess all of us | | | | the overall performance of your PC. So consider |
| have already experienced the "annoying times" with | | | | upgrading the RAM of your PC. It is recommended to |
| YouTube when the video we're watching keeps on | | | | go a little higher than the minimum requirements of the |
| stopping especially when we have slow Internet | | | | operating system. For instance, if your PC runs |
| connection. Thinking of a solution, the first thing comes | | | | Windows Vista, it is best if it has 1GB of RAM for best |
| to our mind is to just upgrade to a higher internet | | | | performance. |
| connection speed that our ISP offers. Yes, of course, it | | | | Tweaking your Browser: |
| can really improve the buffering speed. But, is there | | | | It is also recommended to tweak your browser to |
| any other ways on how to make YouTube to go | | | | make the YouTube go faster. If you are using Mozilla |
| faster without upgrading to a higher internet connection | | | | Firefox, you can change some of its configurations by |
| speed? | | | | typing the "about:config" in the address bar then |
| Well, the answer is Yes! By improving the | | | | changing some of the settings that has to do with |
| performance of your computer, tweaking the browser | | | | pipelining. The easier way to do this is by downloading |
| and also by installing accelerator software, you can | | | | and installing the FasterFox Mozilla Firefox plugin. This |
| make the YouTube videos to load much faster. Let's | | | | plugin automatically tweaks your Mozilla Firefox to |
| start with Memory... | | | | speed it up allowing fast loading of internet videos. |
| Upgrading Memory to Improve the Performance of | | | | Pause Button |
| your Computer: | | | | Playing the video while its still buffering would only |
| The first thing that we have to check when we want | | | | annoy you and would also cause the buffering speed |
| to make the videos to load much faster is if your PC | | | | to slow down further. If you are not that excited to |
| has enough memory. Its useless to tweak your | | | | watch it, much better if you just click the Pause button |
| browser like Mozilla Firefox or to install Accelerator | | | | and wait for the loading bar to turn completely red |
| software if your computer is gasping for memory. | | | | which means that it is fully loaded. This way, the |
| During the buffering of the internet video, your PC has | | | | computer doesn't need to decode the video and |
| to put certain amount of stream into memory. And if | | | | download data simultaneously allowing the buffer |
| your computer doesn't have enough RAM, it has to | | | | speed to go faster thus also allowing you to watch it |
| rely on virtual memory which means that your | | | | as soon as possible without interruption. |
| computer would have to use the hard disk as a | | | | |