What's the best way to watch video and movie clips on a dial up connection?

Answer 1

The very best way would be to watch them on a computer with broadband internet access. Dial up is very slow and trying to watch videos is a pain. There is a lot of buffering. When I still had dial up, I could watch about 5 seconds of a video before it had to stop for buffering.

Answer 2

A video clip could never play as fast as you could watch it on a dialup connection. The video would always stop, play for 5 secs, stop, etc. The best way would be to try to find a site that has a link to the video. Then right click it, Save Target As, then save it to hard drive. Once it finished downloading, then you could double click the video and it would open your media player and play it normally (because now it is playing from hard drive versus the internet).

However, if you do have the patience to sit there and watch it skip all the time, then you can still go back and save it to hard drive. Once the video plays, it is in your Temporary Internet folder (cached). So if you watched a video and it finally makes it to the end, then you can go back, and Right Click the link, and hit Save Target as. Instead of redownloading it, it will just copy it from your cache folder. It will seem like it downloaded it 1 second (but in reality, it just copied it from one place on your computer to another).

Answer 3

Wow Dial Up taht suckz first you should greatly consider upgrading to DSL or Cable you can get them very cheap. But if you cant you can also just make your web-browser faster. If you have firefox you can get the fasterfox extension it Turbo Charges your internet connection. Heres a link to the add on https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1269/ Then when its installed go to the fasterfox preferences and tell it you are using a dial up connection and it will adjust it so your connection is faster. If you dont have firefox you can get it at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1269/

Answer 4

..........the best way is not to watch it
sorry