Does anyone know of a way to monitor your bandwidth usage? My friend said maybe ATT has just cut back on their bandwidth or speed or whatever and could be causing the slowdown. I'm on ATT DSL.
On Sep 10, 8:52 am, lyne <chelyh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess I should have said I bought the chip less than a year ago. > It's only been over the past month that I've noticed my computer > slowing down. It takes longer to load all the ads on websites too. The > ads are annoying enough without having to wait even longer for them to > load. I upgraded to this G4 from a Blue and White G3 and I thought a > 933 would serve me for awhile. It has to; I can't afford to upgrade > again right now! > > On Sep 10, 6:30 am, Bill Connelly <billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > > I think its Flash Player that tries to play back the YouTube video. It > > > has become a cpu hog over the last year or so. So, choppy may be all > > > we can get with our relatively slow cpus inside a browser like my > > > Firefox. My Dual seems to work fairly well, but if I download the > > > YouTube video, and play it back with something like VLC, choppyness is > > > gone. > > > For example, using Activity Monitor, playback of a Roy Hargrove "It > > Ain't Necessarily So" clip via Firefox shows my DA Dual 533 OS X > > 10.5.7 cpu usage @ 150%. > > > Same clip downloaded, played via VLC shows cpu @ ~ 45%. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
