YouTube takes forever to load videos

What is going in here? Great connection, 10 feet from router, MacBook Pro loads videos fine. It literally takes 20 minutes to load a video that is a couple minutes long. Can anyone help me?

Hello,
I had this problem as well. When I first purchased my iPad, I realized that YouTube was loading videos extremely slow. It lasted for about 1-2 weeks, after that everything worked fine. From time to time, YouTube DOES load vides quite slow, but then I wait 1-2 days & the problem's gone.

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