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Yeah, for some reason I'm having trouble with my internet. When I try to listen to espn radio or yahoo! radio the window will pop up but then it never seems to connect, or if it does, the audio never works and it is never streaming, I have the newest windows media player, and I made sure that my pop-up blocker wasn't on, what could be the problem? I'd appreciate any advice you guys could give....
uscrebel
12-16-2005, 11:46 PM
Yeah, for some reason I'm having trouble with my internet. When I try to listen to espn radio or yahoo! radio the window will pop up but then it never seems to connect, or if it does, the audio never works and it is never streaming, I have the newest windows media player, and I made sure that my pop-up blocker wasn't on, what could be the problem? I'd appreciate any advice you guys could give....
Sorry, dude. I'm a Mac guy. They always work.
:D
Yeah, I don't know what the deal is, everything works except for some reason the audio won't stream, makes no sense, and I'm not a great tech guy....
OmahaBound
12-17-2005, 12:23 AM
Yeah, I don't know what the deal is, everything works except for some reason the audio won't stream, makes no sense, and I'm not a great tech guy....
are you using firefox or IE? i've had problems at times using those features with firefox, but then they work perfectly in IE.
IE, they were working fine 2 weeks ago, this has become a recent problem, nothing else on IE is messing up, just streaming audio, it's weird....
WayzUp
12-17-2005, 05:00 AM
How much RAM do you have & what kind of video card do you have?
I have no idea, How do I check for that? It's weird, two weeks ago i could listen to the streams fine, and now, who knows....
sportsgirl
12-17-2005, 06:50 PM
Although Supergenius is not to be trusted in most matters, I think he's the guy to ask when it comes to computers.
usafbamafan
12-17-2005, 08:12 PM
I have no idea, How do I check for that? It's weird, two weeks ago i could listen to the streams fine, and now, who knows....
Have you installed any new audio/video programs or maybe a new codec?
Also, Do you have a firewall installed on your computer or a hardware firewall on your router?
I installed a GRE cd-rom program a few weeks ago (about the same time it started not working I guess), I'm not sure what a codec is though....., as for the firewall, I'm pretty sure that I don't....
WayzUp
12-18-2005, 04:10 AM
It sounds to me like a memory or video card problem. I recently had an AGP slot (where your vid card plugs into on motherboard) go bad on me and I was having problems like what you're describing. But they also could have been related to my ISP who hasn't exactly been the smoothest in the world.
Try going to a bandwidth speed test site and see where you're coming in at. That'd be my first check before thinking there was something actually wrong with your computer. If that checks out ok, then i'd start taking a look at your video card/vid card slot, whether it's PCI or AGP. Easiest way to tell the difference there for me is AGP slots are usually off-color (brown maybe) while PCI slots are generally white.
Or you could have had a stick of RAM go bad on you...that would no doubt cause a 'slow-down' if you're certain you don't have any viruses/web parasites messin' with you. You run Ad-AwareSE or anything or just rely on antivirus to catch them all?
Sorry for just throwin' possibilities but it could be one of a thousand things that causes those kind of problems. #1 on my checklist would be ISP/bandwidth issue....then move on to more worrysome problems from there.
Football_Fan
12-19-2005, 11:34 PM
Check your firewall exceptions, make sure your browser and media player is in the allowed list.
I've run adaware and Norton, I don't think it's that, how do I check my firewall exceptions? That may be the problem, btw everyone thanks for the help so far, I appreciate it...
Cianne
12-20-2005, 07:04 AM
If this is a problem that recently occurred, it doesn't make sense for it to really be a Firewall problem because Windows Media Player and your browser shouldn't have to be classified as an exception on the Windows Firewall.
Are there any other problems that you are having with your computer? Or is it just isolated to trying to stream music and video off the internet?
usafbamafan
12-20-2005, 07:24 AM
It sounds to me like a memory or video card problem. I recently had an AGP slot (where your vid card plugs into on motherboard) go bad on me and I was having problems like what you're describing. But they also could have been related to my ISP who hasn't exactly been the smoothest in the world.
Try going to a bandwidth speed test site and see where you're coming in at. That'd be my first check before thinking there was something actually wrong with your computer. If that checks out ok, then i'd start taking a look at your video card/vid card slot, whether it's PCI or AGP. Easiest way to tell the difference there for me is AGP slots are usually off-color (brown maybe) while PCI slots are generally white.
Or you could have had a stick of RAM go bad on you...that would no doubt cause a 'slow-down' if you're certain you don't have any viruses/web parasites messin' with you. You run Ad-AwareSE or anything or just rely on antivirus to catch them all?
Sorry for just throwin' possibilities but it could be one of a thousand things that causes those kind of problems. #1 on my checklist would be ISP/bandwidth issue....then move on to more worrysome problems from there.
I don't want to get off subject, but I think you are way off base here. Why are you assuming that it is a hardware problem when he is only having problems with one application?
usafbamafan
12-20-2005, 07:32 AM
I've run adaware and Norton, I don't think it's that, how do I check my firewall exceptions? That may be the problem, btw everyone thanks for the help so far, I appreciate it...
Just get to your network connections and you should see a "change firewall settings" button on the left hand side of your screen.
You should also check your internet explorer privacy and security settings(look under tools, internet options, security or privacy tabs). You can try to make Yahoo a trusted site. Also, Try downloading Firefox, Netscape or another browser and see if it is just Internet Explorer that is causing you problems.
Another good place to find fixes is the Microsoft Knowlegde Base. I can't count the number of times I have found solutions to my problems there. Here is a link
http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1
I hope that helps :D
If this is a problem that recently occurred, it doesn't make sense for it to really be a Firewall problem because Windows Media Player and your browser shouldn't have to be classified as an exception on the Windows Firewall.
Are there any other problems that you are having with your computer? Or is it just isolated to trying to stream music and video off the internet?
Just isolated to stream music and streaming video, in fact other video, like off of collegehumor and other sites works (but their videos are run off of their pages, not little pop up windows)....
Just get to your network connections and you should see a "change firewall settings" button on the left hand side of your screen.
You should also check your internet explorer privacy and security settings(look under tools, internet options, security or privacy tabs). You can try to make Yahoo a trusted site. Also, Try downloading Firefox, Netscape or another browser and see if it is just Internet Explorer that is causing you problems.
Another good place to find fixes is the Microsoft Knowlegde Base. I can't count the number of times I have found solutions to my problems there. Here is a link
http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1
I hope that helps :D
I'll give this a shot, checking my privacy settings and then this, thanks everyone.....
WayzUp
12-20-2005, 09:52 AM
I don't want to get off subject, but I think you are way off base here. Why are you assuming that it is a hardware problem when he is only having problems with one application?
I said my first look would be ISP/bandwidth issues and then look at more worrisome (i.e. AGP slot, vid card, bad RAM stick) possibilities if that isn't the cause.
I only even mentioned the hardware side of things because I just recently had an AGP slot go bad on me and the prob that RW described sounds like one of the problems I started having before it pooped out completely. There was that, the screen flashing every now & then when ALT-Tab'ng between windows, constantly having to mess with brightness and contrast to get display to show correctly...never all at the same time but each enough to notice something wasn't right.
Good luck RW...hope I'm wrong. Hope it's your ISP....I don't know that a IE security setting or firewall related issue would cause streaming video to all of a sudden not play right...it's very possible we're all over-thinking this and the problem is on the video's host side of things. It could be damn near any of 100 things really.....
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