Video streaming faster on 3G than WIFI?

I've noticed that when watching Youtube or QT streams that they are much faster to load on the cell networks than on WIFI. Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like the iPhone streams a higher quality video when connected to the WIFI? This is all good except the result is that it takes SO much longer to download.
More often than not I'm perfectly happy with the lower picture quality. Is there any way to force the phone to always download the lower quality video?
I know I can turn WIFI off but then I'm using up my cell data which isn't very cost-effective.

I dont think that might be the problem. My roomate and I did a speed test with his iPod touch 2g on the same video. His loaded the 2m36s video in about ten seconds. My brand new iPhone never even began loading the video until about 30s later. Then the video took about 15m to fully load.

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