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[Brick Tamland]

Can anyone help with this problem, as far as I'm concerned a computer is full of little magical creatures called underpants knomes that spend there time collecting underpants for profit and will one day rise to the surface to enslave humanity, but that sill doesn't stop them from p1ssing me off from time to time

I've only had my laptop a couple of months now. For the last couple of weeks or so every time I try and watch a stream from anywhere inc. youtube, it just stops loading a few seconds in  :-/  The internet speed is fine, it works on the other computer fine.

Its one of these http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/Toshiba_Satellite_L350-17P_Laptop_PSLD8E-06Y008EN/version.asp

[TheBoy]

most likely your net connection, but worth slapping on latest flash

[KillerWatt]

Can anyone help with this problem, as far as I'm concerned a computer is full of little magical creatures called underpants knomes that spend there time collecting underpants for profit and will one day rise to the surface to enslave humanity, but that sill doesn't stop them from p1ssing me off from time to time

I've only had my laptop a couple of months now. For the last couple of weeks or so every time I try and watch a stream from anywhere inc. youtube, it just stops loading a few seconds in  :-/  The internet speed is fine, it works on the other computer fine.

Its one of these http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/Toshiba_Satellite_L350-17P_Laptop_PSLD8E-06Y008EN/version.asp

Just because you happen to score good results on a speedtest site, or indeed you happen to download at full speed from the likes of Microsoft...it doesn't follow that you will have a perfect connection to any other site.

Similarly, if the site you are trying to access is being spanked (excess users), then you will see this at your end as poor download speeds because the server simply cannot serve all of you at the same time.

[Brick Tamland]

most likely your net connection, but worth slapping on latest flash

Good so far, nice one

And as regards speet tests sites I dont really believe them, I got 20mb at 2am even though I'm supposed to have 3.

[KillerWatt]

And as regards speet tests sites I dont really believe them, I got 20mb at 2am even though I'm supposed to have 3.

You gotta love it when Flash malfunctions and reports the buffer speed rather than the actual throughput 

When I go for a speedtest, I go for a large file on a server I know can keep up, and monitor the throughput through the actual NIC rather than rely on what Windows tells me.

[cem_devecioglu]

some server softwares allow it to decrease your time slice if you are downloading a "relatively" big file (ie after some fix mgbytes sent)  to allow other users to download  short files quickly ..

Sites that are taking high hit ratios and allowing big file downloads frequently do that..although not sure this is the case for you..

[Taxi_Driver]

Do you mean it stops playing the video or stops downloading it?
My old laptop used to stop playing streaming videos a few seconds in but carried on downloading them.
I never cured it, it did have the latest version of flash on it, but had IE6 or 7 on it. Never tried IE8 on it.

[KillerWatt]

Do you mean it stops playing the video or stops downloading it?
My old laptop used to stop playing streaming videos a few seconds in but carried on downloading them.
I never cured it, it did have the latest version of flash on it, but had IE6 or 7 on it. Never tried IE8 on it.

Once the data in the buffer falls below the pre-determined threshold, that is exactly what happens in most players.