Windows 7 issue
 

New HP laptop, Windows 7 OS, Firefox browser.
Issue is with playing videos. They hesitate, and I get the "buffering" thing. Stop, goes for 5 seconds, stops, goes anther five seconds.....sux.
Just updated latest Flash version, as it came up in a prompt... What's going on??????

Either 'net feed rate or RAM, just a thought?

What should I try to do with said thoughts?????

What HP? I just fired up a new HP mini210 notebook. Upgraded to 2G ram. I just tried Comcast's Fancast with real video streaming of movies and didn't notice any pauses.

You rapidly expose the limits of my advice with trouble shooting, not really a computer "expert" but more of a hacker...

Shut down all other programs you have running? Are you wireless or hard connect to the 'net? If wireless can you connect direct?

Try IE vs. Firefox? I'm not going to do Firefox on the notebook but FF is my standard browser on the desktop.


I bought the upgrade from Win7 trial (or whatever) to Home Premium which enabled some really simple stuff you would have thunk was in the trial verson....got to pay Bill.

what's running?
 

a terrific FREE program that shows you exactly how much memory is actually being used....and it allows you to terminate anything you don't need to have running... like :point: even screen savers are constantly running...(On or not) or virus programs... ect...so you either have some memory hogs.....
or insufficient memory or the speed your being promised isn't being delivered

it's like a wicked expanded version of task manager
whatsrunning.com

also do a speed check

Maybe you've lost your SPOOKS?

LONDON — Scientists working with a feature of light described by Albert Einstein as "spooky" have managed to link, or entangle, up to five particles in an advance that may lead to better measuring instruments and faster computers.

Israeli researchers said Thursday their technique could be scaled up to create even larger quantum entanglements, in which light particles, or photons, exist in two possible states simultaneously.

The notion that photons can be connected in such a way that changing the state of one instantly affects another, even when they are miles apart, alarmed Einstein, who called it "spooky action at a distance."

But quantum physicists -- who study the universe at the ultra-small level of atoms, photons and other particles -- have already put it to work to improve data encryption and, they hope, to someday supercharge computers.

my protons mated with some freakin Neutron
then they started messing around with this new
chick...in town
then everything got complicated and all entangled
what a mess... everyone was Jealous of the other dude
fights broke out ...the cops came....
and there was an electron riot after wards
they had to use tear gas it got so bad. :fight::fight:

Just imagine if E ever gets to with mc2!

Does the issue happen with Internet Explorer?

Slow internet
 

I am expiriencing exactly the same thing right now on a PC that I know works well on a good internet feed. I'm using AirTran gogo service @35,000ft over Nebraska! So I would say with near certainty that the internet feed is your problem. I am using IE.