Again Some Choppy Vids.

My videos have been running fine until recently. Everytime I open up a Hulu or Megavideo show it runs choppy. It just started doing this, what is going on??

 

Can you post your specs.

 

hows your internet connection ? do a speedtest

 

i5, ATI HD 5850, 4GB

how do u do a speed test... im a nub

 

speedtest.com

 

Can you also explain the choppiness? Starts and pause and starts again or does the image look weird?

 

a little bit of both. the video will be playing and just not run smoothly like the picture looks a bit distorted. It has happened before and all I did was change my power settings and it worked fine. I already tried that and it didnt help at all....

 

sounds like your GPu connection is bad

doing the speed test will only show you the speeds it doesnt fix anything

 

how can i fix this??

 

first did you recently install the 5850, or have someone do it ?

 

i got it installed with the comp when I first bought it from AWs website a couple of months ago

 

then if this is the problem they should fix it, did you just get it ?
Im not %100 on this. Inap >>?

 

Yea i bought it in August. This happened once about a month ago and lasted a day or so then everything started working fine again.

 

here is a few things to try.

-update flash player.
-disable hardware acceleration for the videos, just right click it and a menu will pop up.
-updating your vbios, if it has not been updated yet.

 

Inap's suggestions will probably fix things; if they persist, you might update your display drivers and consult this Hulu support article. Hulu - Support.

 

I know this isn't productive, but I just thought I'd post my results from speedtest.net


I'm pretty blessed with good internet

 

HOLY .

 

lol! ^

10char

 

That's like downloading a game from steam within 10 minutes!

 

Yeah, tell me about it. I love the internet here. Easily the fastest I've ever had access to.

 

Edit: Nevermind. Read your ISP. lol.
This is on wifi at the good ol' University of Tennessee.
When on wired in my dorm my numbers are close to yours, my upload is slower though. The wired has spoiled me so much that this wifi feels painfully slow.

 

Lol yeah. Those are my wifi results, I don't even want to know what my wired results are. Scary fast probably.

 

Probably. I'd recommend getting your own wireless-n router and setting it up in your dorm. It's tricky to get it set up, but once you do, it's so much faster than the dorm's wireless.

 

holy crap you guy not satisfied with your speeds, geez i'm happy with just 10mb/s hahahha

 

I'm more than satisfied. Plus, it's technically illegal at my university to have our own routers. Last year, a few of my friends got in trouble. Now it's almost impossible as well. Besides, my speeds are plenty fast.

 

hahah what would they do if they found it ?

 

I doubt it's illegal, it's probably frowned upon though. I know on my campus they disable your internet until you remove the wireless router. I just have my router setup to register using my PC's MAC address, so as far as they know, its just my laptop, not a router. Plus my wifi has no ssid broadcast and wpa2.

Edit:
Plus, my campus only allows us to register 5 devices on the network. So, between X-box, ps3, laptop, cell phone, ipod, psp, and desktop, I quickly exceeded the 5 device limit. This way I only have two devices registered. My laptop's lan card and the wifi card.

 

that is a great idea !

 

lol; I love how we totally jacked this guy's thread.

I'm not sure what your campus does for registration, but basically setup your router so that the WAN side MAC is the same as the MAC on the LAN port of your laptop. Do this after you've successfully connected to the campus network using the LAN and gone through any registration process there may be. Also, dont connect the router to the campus network until you've successfully changed the mac address. I attatched a picture of my netgear router's configuration

 

haha yea i know

I dont think my campus has a restriction on how many devices. but im glad i know this now ! +1 to you

 

My campus considers it stealing. Then they shut down your account and you go in front of a board. Sucks

 

haha that seems a lil steep. I dont live on campus so there might be. but on campus wireless doesn't have any limit. i have at least 5 devices on the penn state VPN everyday.

 

Dude, not cool at all. But your wifi speeds seem to be good. I cant even pick up the wifi in my dorm, so I consider it justified. If they do ever try to take action against me, I do believe I could talk my way out of it, especially considering they sell wireless routers in the campus bookstore and I have taken extreme precaution against unauthorized access to my wireless network.

 

You should be okay, there were a few bad eggs on my university that ruined it for the rest of us. That's how it always seems to go...

 

agreed. Always up to something ignorant 9/10.