Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Hello!

Will someone out there pls help in clearifying what is really wrong with my system. I use window 98 as my operating system. I am connected to a proxy server for browsing the net. Whenever l am listening to music online l have the problem of intermitted break in which the playing will cease and display buffering. What is really wrong? can someone give to me an explanation

Thanks

Kayode Ogunwole

FYI, in the future, your Windows-related questions should be posted in the "Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions" forum.

Sounds like you're listening to streaming audio. How fast is your connection? Do you have a 56 k modem or something faster like dsl? The computer downloads as much as it can and starts playing it.. if you have a slow connection, the computer gets done playing what it has so far and has to wait for more music to be downloaded, which is when you see the "buffering" message.

Really the only way to fix this is to get a faster connection to the Internet.

Or you can pause the music and let the entire file download before you begin to play it.

You know, I am having a similar problem, even running over a T3 network. Whenever I stream music, it occaisionally interrupts to buffer, and sometimes just disconnects the stream. I assume that this is a proxy problem, and that there is nothing I can do on my (end user) side.
Maybe someone else has similar problems...

Not sure what you're using, but here are some sites for solving playback problems with Windows Media Player and RealPlayer.

Well l use window media player 7.0.1. Our connection is through VSAT multilink with 96Kbps bandwidth. I am connected on the LAN 10/100mbps link with about 25 workstation. Is it the LAN or the proxy that is causing the buffering.

Thanks

If you've got 25 workstations on your LAN and only 96Kbps to play with your going to have buffering. Unless your the only one on your network your going to have to put up with buffering.