4K streaming and super slow buffering

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I have a rather nifty laptop with a 4K screen but I'm finding 4K streaming to be unusable.

My internet is definitely not quick enough to stream it unbuffered, it's about 10-11 mbps or so, but the sluggishness with the buffering is definitely abnormal. I could easily leave it for an hour and I might have gained less than a minute of viewable video.

I've tried multiple browsers, both Vimeo and Youtube, and it's the same in all of them. Am I missing something obvious? Ten hours of waiting to view ten minutes of 4k youtube seems a tad excessive.

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mmm-five said:

Are your browsers set up to limit the amount of local storage to either of those sites?

New one on me. I'll check that out. It makes sense.

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HD streaming is perfect. The computer can play 4K just fine. It must be some sort of browser issue. The broadband can't keep up with 4k streaming no matter what.