On 11/27/10 10:12 AM, Paul wrote: > Rickles wrote: >> Using Moz 2.0.10 on XP Pro (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; >> Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 SeaMonkey/2.0.10) >> >> I've been experiencing something for some time now that I don't get: >> clicking on a web site's link to a piece of streaming video pulls the >> video down, but it's not quite right. As an example, the BBC does a lot >> of video feeds from their BBC iPlayer setup, links can be found at >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news. Clicking on a link gives you a spinning dots >> circle while the connection is made, but then the video starts. And >> then stops after about 3 seconds, then restarts and plays through >> normally. It's that stop-restart that's puzzling me. >> >> I've run various BBC web sites through the W3C Validator, and they come >> up clean. I'm using the latest drivers for my chipset and video card. >> I've changed hardware acceleration settings, but no help. >> >> I've updated to the newest Flash Player, specifically choosing the >> 'other browsers' option. If anything, it's made things worse. The >> delay between start-stop-restart is longer now than before. And >> re-playing the same clips doesn't change it either--caching doesn't >> appear to be playing a part. >> >> Any ideas? > > Network lag. Do a ping or tracert.
Ping will show you whether there are problems reaching the server. TraceRoute will show you the "Internet distance" to the server. That is, it will show you how many hops data must make through intermediate routers from your computer to the server, which is about the same number of hops from the server back to you. A server that is 1,000 miles away but only requires five hops to reach is closer in Internet space than a server that is 20 miles away but requires ten hops. The more hops -- the greater the Internet distance -- the longer the delay (greater lag) and often the slower the feed. Some servers block Ping because a flood of pings can overwhelm a server and cause a denial-of-service attack. Since TraceRoute depends on ping-like activity, those servers often block TraceRoute, too. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
