youtube and internet problem

[JennyBee]

My laptop’s driving me mad . Yesterday I began having problems with youtube, it keeps stopping and starting whenever I try to watch a video. it was working perfectly fine before then . Internet explorer doesn‘t seem to be as fast as usual either. I’ve deleted all the cookies etc, is there anything else I can do? I’ll be grateful for any advice

[Michele]

I wonder if it was a problem with the Youtube site as I tried to watch the link on here about the father & son and it kept freezing up on me. I gave up in the end. 

[EddieP]

I'd try and give it another go in case the site itself was under heavy load and so being slow. If your machine seems slow you might want to run a defrag on the hard drive which should help to speed things up in general. Let me know if you want any help on how to do this.

[JennyBee]

The computer seems to be fine, it’s just the internet…. It’s taking ages to load up the photos being posted on COL and now I cannot even get onto the youtube website (it comes up with a 502 Server Error ). I have a wireless internet connection and the house phone line is really crackly so I don’t know if that has anything to do with it? I'm completely hopeless at this