How to play video on website without buffering so much!

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Hi All, My friend Kat sent me this link in an email

I played this on my homebuilt desktop which has cable connection, XP
professional, 1.5gb ram, 2.4ghz P4 and it played sporatically, like it was
buffering. I couldn't get it play 'straight through' until it had played
sporatically to the end, then replayed it, then it was ok.

I played it on my Sony laptop just now with same cable connection through
router and it played straight through the first. This laptop has 1.66mhz
duo core processor, 1gb ram, cable connection, XP media version, and both of
my machines have 30gb & 120gb free space on the hdd.

My friend's Gateway machine is XP home edition SP2, P4, 1.8ghz processor,
and 640mb RAM with dsl connection. I didn't find out how much free space
she has on her hdd but I could ask if it's needed. She said she just had it
upgraded, she thinks it was the ram though.

Would anyone happen to know why this same movie would play sporatically on
my P4 desktop and Kat's P4 desktop but it plays straight through on my
laptop? From the specs above, is it possible that the media version of XP
is what makes playing the movie on the laptop smoother or the duo core
processor on it?

We are hoping there is some setting we could change somewhere so it would
play straight through the first time. Does anyone have any ideas on this?
or why it buffers so much on our desktops but this laptop has no prob (based
on the specs)? TIA for any ideas!! katy
 
It rather depends on how many other people are connecting on your cable
connection.... it's shared so that multiple consumers all connect through
the same 'pipe' although you will never see them. If you're trying to watch
something in 'rush hour' or when there are a lot of people surfing, you're
not going to get as good a speed.... equally, how many people are playing
the same link at YouTube... ??????

You can do the normal housekeeping, run diskcleanup, disk defrag etc, but I
suspect it won't make it go that much faster.
 
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