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Oddly my wife used to see this on her laptop in our apartment in Los Angeles. I would play a video, and it would be fine at HD. I'd ping her the link, and she would attempt to play it and it would be stuttery and crappy. I'm not sure what changed, but eventually it just cleared up. We were on the same connection. Very odd.

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Were you using the same dns servers?

I believe so. She probably wouldn't know how to change her DNS settings, and I don't think I would have changed either hers or my own from the default. I do recall turning off my ISP's auto-redirect on bad DNS spam. (It would try to suggest sites they got money from if I entered a website that didn't exist, for example.) But beyond that, I don't think we did anything to change DNS.

Were you using the same browser and Flash Player versions?

It's likely we were using the same browser. I'm not sure about Flash Player versions. Even if we weren't, why should that matter? I doubt we were too far off in the version numbers we used. Does YouTube do some sort of caching of info about what version of Flash you're using?

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