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The pre roll ad on videos needs to be set to stream at whatever quality your bandwidth can allow. It pretty consistent that the Ad's are forced to load to play at its highest quality. Sometimes taking more time to get through than the clip you click to watch itself.
There either need to be a capability added to change the quality setting of the advertisements or an automatically updating one that monitors the users bandwidth.