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by ravenstine 1182 days ago
My connection doesn't suck. It's 1 gigabit down, and the same service I had back when YouTube seemed gung ho on defaulting to hi-res video for me. I suppose it's always possible that an ISP could throttle connections to YT. Judging how fast torrents download for me, there's no good reason why bandwidth in and of itself would cause YouTube to only load up to 1080p for me (though often 720p) unless I force it to use a higher res.