Increase Youtube Buffering Speed By Bypassing Isp Throttling

This is a network tweak on windows to be performed to increase YouTube buffering speed. Here what some ISP do to save internet bandwidth is they will throttle bandwidth and download speeds on connections to servers that deliver cached video content, to get out of this by using below command you can get the direct video to you without any other throttling this is another way to increase YouTube buffering speed

Steps to Bypass ISP Throttling to increase YouTube buffering speed

Step 1: Click on start then type cmd then right click on it and select run as administrator

Step 2: Now copy the below code to command prompt and hit enter.(to copy text to cmd right click on border of cmd windows > then properties > then tick on quick edit mode and insert mode)

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”YoutubeBufferTrick” dir=in action=block remoteip=173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 

Now you can easily buffer YouTube videos faster.

If you want this to remove this feature you can use below command to get back


netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name=”YoutubeBufferTrick”



Routing through a Different DNS also increased YouTube buffering speed

Here you can use any DNS optimization service to get your YouTube buffering faster. Google actually claims that public DNS service actually increase browsing speed and buffering speed of YouTube. Here by changing DNS you can increase the buffering of YouTube.
By doing these all three things you can experience the tremendous increase in your youtube buffering speed. Happy youtubing.

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