On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Al Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 19, 2008, at 4:17 AM, imaclist group wrote: > >> == 1 of 2 == >> Date: Sat, Oct 18 2008 8:18 pm >> From: Laura >> >> >> Hi All, >> As you can see by my below specs my imac is pretty maxed out. >> Lately I have been having problems watching tv shows in itunes. >> For a few minutes its fine, then eventually the cpu starts maxing out >> and the video kind of slows down - sound is still there. >> I pause it, wait a minute then it works fine for like 5 or 10 minutes, >> then it maxes out again. >> I am running no other programs. >> Any ideas would be appreciated. >> thanks >> laura drew >> 2 GB RAM, updated dvd drive, fan, 500 gb hard drive >> Flat Panel iMac, G4, 1 GHz >> hard drive is half full > > What OS version are you using? > > My first suspicion points to the quality of service that you have from > your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Are you on cable or DSL (phone > line)? What does the ISP claim to be its download capacity to your > modem? Cable performance is sensitive to the number of people in your > neighborhood actually on line at a given time. If you are on cable, > would the video performance be better at 2 or 5 AM, or even mid- > morning, than at 5 to 10 PM when folks have returned home from work > and school? > > There are things to check on your machine which can affect performance > in unexpected ways. Delete browser cache. Delete other caches. Do > routine maintenance, meaning ensure that maintenance scripts (cron > jobs) have been done in the past month or so. > > Also, in your initial setup, you had to specify what type/speed of > internet service you were getting. Frankly, I do not know where/how > to check on that. > > Al Poulin > > > > >
some ideas; make sure your cable is tight is it a cooling issue? go to: http://myvoipspeed.visualware.com/index.html and run their voip test a couple times from the closest server to you this test more than just speed, it measures QoS on several levels which has more to do with streams than simple speed -- I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. --Dwight D. Eisenhower "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa Aristotle - "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear r... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
