YouTube still has periods where it works okay. It's live feeds that don't work at all.
There.
I have RealDownload but I never use it. Sometimes it doesn't work at all, but it won't help with live feeds.
I hear what you are saying. It truly sounds like it is an Internet speed issue for you. I use YouTube a fair amount and have problems with neither but I have a very fast download speed. Quite frankly, over the years, I have never found changing settings of various types to work very well. While sometimes that is the problem, it is often download speed that is the culprit. Sometimes it is the source of the live feed.
Anymore, if you are running much less than 20MB download your just going to get buffering from time to time and live feeds can be problematic. And again, on the live feed thing, sometimes the source tries to do it on the cheap and it just doesn’t work. Also, big events overtax the server. Even HBOGo crashed the other evening.