{"id":557,"date":"2021-08-24T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:39:48","slug":"solution-alienware-xps-laptops-slow-video-streaming-speeds-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-alienware-xps-laptops-slow-video-streaming-speeds-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLUTION: Alienware, XPS laptops &#8211; Slow video streaming speeds on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a really annoying one. Dell XPS and Alienware machines, despite their significant capabilities, experience <em>super <\/em>slow high-res video streaming on YouTube. The buffer is visibly razor-thin on anything 1080p or above without any obvious reason why. This occurred on a gigabit fiber connection in my case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The solution? As often is the case, the value-added (in this case, QoS traffic-shaping\/packet inspection) networking software is actually value-subtracted. Simply navigate to the <strong>Killer Control Center <\/strong>software and disable the following (useless) option to correct the problem and reclaim your proper streaming speeds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/killer-control-center.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/killer-control-center-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/killer-control-center-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/killer-control-center-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/killer-control-center-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/killer-control-center-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/killer-control-center-2048x1365.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/killer-control-center-450x300.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Value-added? More like value-subtracted. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a really annoying one. Dell XPS and Alienware machines, despite their significant capabilities, experience super slow high-res video streaming on YouTube. The buffer is visibly razor-thin on anything 1080p or above without any obvious reason why. This occurred on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-alienware-xps-laptops-slow-video-streaming-speeds-on-youtube\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casestudies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}