my dial-up internet is very bad at streaming stuff and i can't watch videos online........ is this normal?

Question

i have net zero and i try to go to sites like youtube to watch stuff but it either loads extremely slow or it doesn't load at all......... does dial-up internet normally do this?

Answer 1

Yes, you will never get good results with video on a dial-up connection. Sorry.

Answer 2

Sorry but dial-up is "always" slow. You should go to DSL or cable. It is fast and good for what you are wanting to do. I get my DSL from my phone company and pay $13 a month. If you have cable TV see if you can get your internet hook up through them. DSL and cable are not that expensive any more. You will be happy you change over from dial-up. I went to DSL 9 years ago and never looked back. Dial-up in my opinion sucks. Hope this helps you.

Answer 3

Yes, it does. The best way to watch videos through dial-up is to start the download, pause the video, and go make dinner, or read a book, or something. Come back in about ten or twenty minutes, and see how far the download has gotten. When you hit 95% of the video, you can hit play, and you should see the whole thing without any pauses.

Answer 4

Set the player to fully cache the file first. It will take awhile, but you'll be able to hear it without skipping.

What this means is it loads the file in your Internet cache first before it plays. You may be able to stream fine in real time if the music/movie is around 28 Kbps, but the quality will be nasty.

Don't bother with files over 8 MBs, unless you go have a shower while it's downloading.

In Windows Media player you can set the buffer 28.8 Kbps, or set the buffer as a time in seconds. Set this to around 3 minutes, and you'll have to wait three minutes before you hear it. If it's a 128Kbps mp3 file and it's 3 MB, set the buffer to around 20-30 minutes, and come back at that time, or do some surfing while you're waiting.

Answer 5

First of all, net-zero and Juno are two of the worst carriers you can get. They add on tons of virus type programs which prove mostly irremovable even by virus removal software, and slow down your computer until it is useless. Unfortunately the only complete solution to net-zero is partitioning and formatting your drive. Short of that, get the best couple virus packages you can find (not just one) ( check the net for free ones) and clear it up as best you can. Also use no ads, ad aware and spybot to help clean it up. Then try down loading the movies onto your hard drive and watching them from there, it should be much better depending on your processor and memory.

Answer 6

Yes. Streaming a video with a dial-up connection is like trying to pour a bucket of water through a straw. DSL and cable connection are more like pouring a bucket of water through a toilet paper tube (I guess). Eventually you should get the video but it will take much longer and either your computer or the server may get frustrated and time out (give up).

Answer 7

Dial-up is not a solution for video streaming. Go for DSL or Cable based internet access (if you can afford)

Answer 8

Yes. That's the bain of dial-up.

See if Verizon is available in your area. You can usually get the 768K service for only $19.95 a month. That would be about 20 times as fast as dial-up.

Good luck.

Answer 9

Yes, dial up is slow. Always has been and always will be. If you want decent video you need to have some sort of high speed connection.

Answer 10

dial up gives a very bate rate of about 7 kbps or at the max, 14 kbps, which is not sufficient to watch streaming videos. switch to cable or dsl to get speeds greater than 256 kbps