For youtube on FiOS specifically, you can change your dns servers away from verizon&#x27;s and it&#x27;ll start going a lot faster. I can&#x27;t find the link right now, but using their dns servers points you to cdn&#x2F;caching nodes hosted by verizon, which are generally massively over saturated. If you switch to google&#x27;s public dns or another public dns service (or run your own resolver if you&#x27;re a masochist like me) you usually end up hitting edge nodes that aren&#x27;t completely saturated and you get far far better speeds.