Speed up web videos with SpeedBit

Posted on 29 October 2009 by


Do you watch a lot a YouTube vidoes?  I certainly do.  One of the problems I routinely face with YouTube is buffering issues.  Often times when I’m watching a video, especially one in hi-def, the video will stop to buffer.  This results in a spinning wheel across the screen and I’m forced to wait for the video to catch up before I can continue watching.  Granted this doesn’t happen with every video I watch, but it happens often enough.

SpeedBit has the solution.  Their SpeedBit Video Accelerator is a small application which you install on your computer and in turn it greatly speeds up your video viewing experience. I just installed the trial and was immediately impressed at how fast the few YouTube videos I watched downloaded.  I experienced no pauses even during the hi-def videos I viewed.

Dave Kaminski’s (Web Video University) independent and unsolicited review of the product reveals how playing an HD video in the US over a very fast 20 mbps Internet connection resulted in 25 buffering stops, while watching the same video with Speedbit Video Accelerator installed eliminated those 25 buffering stops to just 1 split second stop.

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You can download a free trial of the software and test it out for yourself here.

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