Re: faster video?

2009-02-25 Thread Simon Royal
Hi. Yes I would like to know how you resolved it too. Please let us know. Simon --- now that we know the solution, may we have an explanation? did you install firefox to fix it? did you uninstall it? did you change the plugins you use? did you simply use a different browser? ??? --~-

Re: faster video?

2009-02-24 Thread ./aal
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:26 PM, rs_poetic wrote: > > > Happy ending... I recently solved my Netflix streaming problems, and > the solution is: Firefox! > RS > now that we know the solution, may we have an explanation? did you install firefox to fix it? did you uninstall it? did you change th

Re: faster video?

2009-02-24 Thread rs_poetic
Happy ending... I recently solved my Netflix streaming problems, and the solution is: Firefox! RS --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as wel

Re: faster video?

2009-01-11 Thread rs_poetic
Thanks for the responses! I've learned things. I note that Netflix has an interesting automatic quality finder that deems my video quality to be "high"; I can see it fiddling in the first moments of the video until it gets a sharp picture. On my end, extending the helpful tests suggested here, I

Re: faster video?

2009-01-10 Thread ./aal
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, rs_poetic wrote: > > > > Ok, I ran the tests (with wireless, and the new larger memory which is > great incidentally). The speedtest result: > > 21520 kbps download > 2717 kbps upload > ok you got bandwidth lets check quality os service go to : http://myspeed.vis

Re: faster video?

2009-01-10 Thread rs_poetic
t;I hooked the computer up to the cable router by direct wire.  Puzzling > >result: although general loading of internet pages was faster, video > >streaming itself didn't improve much. > > That mostly eliminates your computer and LAN (wired and wireless) as the > cause. &g

Re: faster video?

2009-01-06 Thread Dan
At 10:17 AM -0800 1/6/2009, rs_poetic wrote: > >I did most of the maintenance steps suggested by Dan: no noticeable >change in video streaming ability. > >I hooked the computer up to the cable router by direct wire. Puzzling >result: although general loading of internet pages

Re: faster video?

2009-01-06 Thread rs_poetic
Hello, I did most of the maintenance steps suggested by Dan: no noticeable change in video streaming ability. I hooked the computer up to the cable router by direct wire. Puzzling result: although general loading of internet pages was faster, video streaming itself didn't improve much.

Re: faster video?

2009-01-05 Thread rs_poetic
Thanks to all for prompt suggestions - it might take me a few days to do the maintenance that Dan suggests as a first step, and then I'll let you know the results RS On Jan 4, 2:14 pm, Manuel Jorge Marques wrote: > It could also be the wi-fi connection... I have an 8 mbit cable   > connectio

Re: faster video?

2009-01-04 Thread Manuel Jorge Marques
It could also be the wi-fi connection... I have an 8 mbit cable connection here, but I do tell the difference (in terms of responsiveness...) between the wired and the wireless connection. Manuel Marques, Portugal -- My 68k-server: http://babylonlc.no-ip.org:8080 On Jan 4, 2009, a

Re: faster video?

2009-01-04 Thread Kyle Parish
It's possible that it's your ISP and your bandwidth if you are streaming from Netflix web-site. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Dan wrote: > > At 8:01 AM -0800 1/4/2009, rs_poetic wrote: > > [2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo iMac, 1 GB, Airport Extreme 11g] > >>when I bought this great iMac a year ago, it s

Re: faster video?

2009-01-04 Thread Dan
At 8:01 AM -0800 1/4/2009, rs_poetic wrote: [2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo iMac, 1 GB, Airport Extreme 11g] >when I bought this great iMac a year ago, it seemed really fast - and >yet new challenges now seem to be pushing it to the limit. In >particular, Netflix Instant Play, which we love, stutters a bi

faster video?

2009-01-04 Thread rs_poetic
Hello, when I bought this great iMac a year ago, it seemed really fast - and yet new challenges now seem to be pushing it to the limit. In particular, Netflix Instant Play, which we love, stutters a bit, just enough to be annoying. So my question is, where is the bottleneck in internet video str