> From: Fluxstringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> From: Fluxstringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> The biggest load on the net for a CPU, I believe, is streaming video. >>> >>> My hybrid runs at 300MHz and I get a lot of use out of it. Wish I >>> could play streaming video. But I am sometimes surprised by a well >>> designed website that will show me something unexpected on my humble >>> setup. >>> > From: David Elmo >> I can't >> quite see that it is your processor that holds up the streaming. Why is it >> not the factor you identified at the beginning, namely the isp connection? >> After all, do you have trouble playing QT movies when not on line? Same >> thing online except that the info has to come down in time. It is not coming >> down quick enough. There may be some cpu factor here at work, but I bet not >> as much as the line bottleneck. > > I have tried increasing cache size and memory allocation in NS. This > helped to play some smaller QT files from online. > I envy those with broadband and fast CPUs the ability to play the > bigger files and even movies. > > David , check out the movie on bigha.com See if it will play for you. > > It plays haltingly for me. > -- > Adrian Well, this is well known, streaming video over dialup is not good, it is not bad for radio though. I can see you are not impressed by what I said about the limiting factor really being the isp connection, not much to do with the cpu! Where I live, broadband is cheap enough, even as cheap as dialup to run given a few factors. There are many deals where they don't charge more running costs than the unlimited dial up deals. What they do do is put a cap on your downloads and throttle you back to modem speeds for the rest of the month after you have exceeded this limit. Sometimes the throttle back is faster than 56K or so it is advertised. Mostly the cheap deals are from $19 to $29 and the limit for these is about 200 MB. You can do a fair bit of ordinary surfing for this. Of course, for movies, it will eat it up, but even then, it is good for quite a few shorts of about 3 to 5 MB. Set up costs are a bit, maybe about $200 all up. You are not worse off (unless you have special needs like me) David Elmo -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:" Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
