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Slow Seek times with YouTube

gizmo777 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:35:02 GMT

For some reason if I use any device now and use YouTube through my BT fibre internet, it is now taking 5-10 seconds to start a video and about the same if I forward a video. It wasn’t doing this a few days ago. There’s a huge delay with just YouTube

it happens on every device, YouTube tv app, YouTube on my computer, YouTube on my phone. But only through my Internet connection with BT.

i have a good connection and getting decent WiFi 1000mbps speeds or close to it on everything apart from YouTube. It was working perfectly fine a few days ago. Now I can’t even watch a 1080p video without a huge amount of spinning circle seek time appearing.

i tried connecting to my cellular network without WiFi and it doesn’t happen at all. I also tried a VPN while still connecting through BT and it doesn’t happen then either. I have no idea why this has suddenly started happening last couple of days. YouTube is basically unusable on a 1000mbps connection!

can someone please fix this

Re: Slow Seek times with YouTube

orozz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:57:35 GMT

Yeah I’ve noticed YouTube videos are taking an age to get going. I agree this only started in the past few days.

Re: Slow Seek times with YouTube

gizmo777 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:12:31 GMT

Yeah it’s obviously a BT fault with how it’s routing traffic with YouTube or something.

Re: Slow Seek times with YouTube

Leanne_T — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:01:45 GMT

Hi @gizmo777 @orozz

Thanks for coming here.

I've reached out to you both in a private message for some extra details.

Leanne.