Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Your Cricket "Broadband" connection speed is more than likely why.
Cricket Wireless has a reported speed of 1Mbps download speed and 300kbps upload speed more or less. Your connection speed is slower than a low speed DSL (direct service line) landline telephone company service at 1.5 Mbps. (Mega Bits Per Second)
The slow connection speed of your Cricket ISP (Internet Service Provider) is why you are getting the stop and go symptom of the video you are trying to view. The video is trying to show what data it has received from the CBS website thru Cricket's network to your usb "Broadband" Cricket device and the incoming data transfer is not as fast as your graphics processor can display.
If you hold your cursor over the lower part of the video you are trying to view, it will pop up a timeline of how long the show (video) is and how much buffer overrun or buffer under run has occurred.
Depending upon the website you are trying to view video from, waiting until the entire video has completed buffering for a 38 minute "show" could take more than two to three times as long as the video itself. Also viewing streaming video on Cricket Wireless "Broadband" can cause an overrun of contracted data amount, say depending upon your contract of 2.5 gigabytes or 5 gigabytes, adding to the cost of your connection.
Joseph Holmes
Field Service Technician
--- On Sun, 6/6/10, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Video streaming problem
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, June 6, 2010, 12:17 PM
Hi!
How do I check the status of the progress bar you referred to in your
reply?
Right now, I would like to view the final episode of CBS's The Good Wife
available online at
_http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_good_wife/video/?vs=Full%20Episodes_
(http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_good_wife/video/?vs=Full%20Episodes)
I don't see any bar. All I see is the actual show that keeps starting
and stopping
I don't have a desktop only my laptop and am connecting to the net via a
wireless Cricket device but have had the problem no matter where I connect
using this laptop. Note: I have Windows XP on my laptop.
LBruzas
In a message dated 6/6/2010 9:45:18 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
This can happen if your streaming rate is slower than the video speed. What
does the progress bar on your player show? If it shows that you have
nothing
in the buffer, then your connection speed is too slow, or the site is
overloaded. If this happens only with your laptop and not your desktop, I
might assume that you are connecting your laptop through a wireless
connection and the speed of this connection is a bit slow for the video.
If the speed is not the problem, and you are getting adequate buffering,
then we would need to know more about your setup, program you are using to
view the video, and your version of Windows before we can make additional
suggestions.
Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
I hope that I can do an adequate job explaining my problem. I can't seem
to
view an online video on my laptop without interruption every few seconds.
It seems to start and stop throughout - like it is getting stuck. Any
ideas or settings on my laptop that I could check or readjust?
LBruzas
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