Internet Video Shennanigans: Round 3

[Admiral Lithp]

Lately, my internet has been refusing to completely load videos. Often, it won't start, or will load so slowly that it practically didn't start. Sometimes, it loads quite well for a while, then suddenly decides to stop about 2/3 of the way in. I thought it might be a phase, but it's been doing this pretty consistently for a few weeks now.

This is a problem, because if I want to watch anything, it practically HAS to be on the computer. Especially anime. Another reason why this is a problem is that most video players don't seem to want to let me refresh, skip ahead, & start from the point it stopped earlier.

So, obviously, I'm asking for ways to fix it. Preferably keeping my current browser, as I grow weary of switching every time one of them decides to be a douche about something.

I also get signed out of MSN a lot. Not sure if that's related.

For those who are curious, Round 1 is when I had dial-up & it was impossible to load videos, & Round 2 was back when IE 7 or so was incompatible with Adobe Flash.

[Dragon Zachski]

Youtube?

I have a similar problem. It's often resolved by switching the video quality back and forth (so that it forces the video to reload from the point where I was at), clicking where the video hasn't loaded (forcing it to load from that point) and then clicking back to the part of the video that is now unloaded. In the most frustrating cases, I might have to refresh the page.

I think what's happening is that your internet is simply "hiccuping", and due to the hiccup, the video player decides to derp and stuff happens and it stops loading.

[Admiral Lithp]

It's been happening with all video players, including YouTube. But since YouTube videos are typically only 10 minutes or so, it's not as noticeable there. Trouble is, YouTube is a whore & a half about copyrights.