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@danootz: I agree with you. I was delighted by the Beck album and would love to buy it if possible.

@alexisg: I'll probably stop using Google DNS for now and give it a try again sometime later. I hope the problem, whatever it is, gets solved.

Thanks for taking a look at this thread!

@alexisg: I updated my previous post with more info. Looks like we posted at ~the same time.

@alexisg: Yes, I'm using Google Public DNS.

Edit: Doing a little research with Google, it looks like your guess may be correct. I'm most definitely not near São Paulo/Guarulhos or Narita, Chiba, Japan!

$ nslookup -querytype=txt identity.cloudfront.net
identity.cloudfront.net text = "ns-gru1-02.cloudfront.net.gru1"

$ nslookup -querytype=txt identity.cloudfront.net
identity.cloudfront.net text = "ns-nrt54-02.cloudfront.net.nrt54"

Changing back to my ISP's DNS provides a much more reasonable result. And, with this change, my video problems seem to have disappeared.

$ nslookup -querytype=txt identity.cloudfront.net
identity.cloudfront.net text = "ns-sfo5-02.cloudfront.net.sfo5"

I've been using Google DNS for… at least six months and this is the first time I've had this problem. If anybody on the "more technical" side of things wants to pursue this problem with Google Public DNS, I'd be happy to help.

For the past week I've been unable to watch HD videos with Streaming, Progressive, or HTML5. For all of these, time spent "buffering" the video far exceeds playback time. Imagine 10 seconds for "buffering" resulting in two seconds of video playback. Also, the download of "Dave Fortress - Part 02" through iTunes took four hours.

My ISP is Cox in Phoenix, AZ, USA and I'm using Chrome and Firefox on a 13-inch, Early 2011 MacBook Pro:

• Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
• Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
• Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)
• User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.49 Safari/537.1
• User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0

If it's helpful, I've collected some data on the state of my connection (while using Chrome):

• Amazon CloudFront Latency: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BysV514wrR8JcDZOWk1tYk02dFk
• Speedtest.net: http://www.speedtest.net/result/2081873605.png
• DSLReports.com: http://www.dslreports.com/im/102221822/1060.png

And, here's a video capture of my screen which shows what I'm experiencing. It starts at 0:10 and gets really bad at 0:43.

@wewantsthering: @wewantsthering said:

@fluxbit said:

Maybe they didn't trot her out because they, and she, are better than that.

If they were beyond that, why did they wait until a big event trot her out? Because they're not better than that. Haha. It shouldn't be a bullet-point that a woman was a lead in something. It should be normal by now.

That is my point. Who's making it a bullet-point? Not them; Patrick.

It was the proverbial car wreck from which you cannot possibly look away. But at least I could mute it.

The only video game character I want to hear sing is Mordin.

@Hizang: I'm fluxbit on Origin.

@brainwins: Right on.