Udemy Online Video Courses: Slow video streaming and buffering obstacles
Users encounter extreme slowness, buffering, and slow downloading speeds when attempting to watch online training videos and courses. These unnecessary technical obstacles create a frustrating and demotivating experience for learners trying to access educational content.
6 different people have complained about this since 02 Apr 2018, most recently on 03 Sept 2025.
No new posts for 431 days. This may have been fixed, or people stopped writing about it — the evidence below is from before 03 Sept 2025.
- “It is horrible to work with do to the slowness of the downloading when I look at a training video.”
- “It’s hard to learn at the best of times but when there are unnecessary obstacles it becomes very frustrating and demotivating”
- “Tried watching courses on my laptop and after 10 seconds of the video I experienced extreme buffering but I just thought it was my school network, and so I tried udemy at home with a different device and the app was…”
6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · 0 in the last 30 days, 0 in the 30 before
The pain
shares of 6 peopleWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 6 people using Udemy Online Video Courses
- What goes wrong
- Videos fail to load or play5 people · 83%
- Since
- 02 Apr 2018 → 03 Sept 2025
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Udemy Online Video Courses
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
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What people were doing
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- Complaint6100%
Sources
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Evidence
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Udemy Online Video Courses — Technically frustrating It is horrible to work with do to the slowness of the downloading when I look at a training video. I put down tablet not because the courses are bad, it is the wait time and that is Udemy.
Strong complaintFrustrated…to the laggy nature of the website it’s almost impossible to watch. It’s hard to learn at the best of times but when there are unnecessary obstacles it becomes very frustrating and demotivating
FrustratedUdemy Online Video Courses — EXTREMELY SLOW Tried watching courses on my laptop and after 10 seconds of the video I experienced extreme buffering but I just thought it was my school network, and so I tried udemy at home with a different device and the app was still SLOW, for you guys to offer tech videos and still…
Udemy Online Video Courses — Very frustrating Why do the courses keep stopping? Waste of money
FrustratedUdemy Online Video Courses — Frustrating Great content, but videos laggy as hell, even on a good internet connection. They need to fix this.
Frustrated
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Score 23.6 → 22.4 · 09 Nov 2026, 00:00 → 01:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Slow video streaming and buffering obstacles a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 02 Apr 2018 and the most recent from 03 Sept 2025. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: quiet — no new posts in the last 60 days. 0 people raised it in the last 30 days and 0 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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