Youtube videos randomly won't load

I recently got a new modem, and ever since then I've noticed YouTube videos will randomly stop loading (particularly longer ones, although I have had short videos stop loading too). Switching to HTML5 video player seems to let me play videos without having any loading issues.
- I've tried resetting my router.
- Reinstalling Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.125
- Clearing my recent history
- Flushing my dns
- Turning DASH playback off
- I've tried posting on Adobe Flash Player and Youtube forums for help but nobody replied
- It's been happening for over 2 months now.
- Videos seem to load fine on Chrome
I'm not really sure what else to do, I'm assuming it has something to do with my new modem, but I have no idea how to fix this.
I'll be using Chrome until I find a solution to this.

it apears to be the flash player ....
and how do you change the setting of youtube to html5 ? cheers

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