Streaming audio breaking up.What is the problem?

Question

Hi All,
I listen to Virgin radio Uk in Cape Town, South Africa on streaming audio. I have ADSL and I am using windows media player 9.. PROBLEM is that the audio is always breaking up every 5- 8 seconds. keeps on buffering....Is it software....should I upgrade my media player to 11,or is it my memeory, cache, connection speed, hard drive ?? What can i do??? i dont know whay my speed is (how do i check??)
Its very annoying..PLEASE HELP!!!!
cheers

Answer 1

Even though you have ADSL, the speed for all connections is not constant...



In fact, if you are between 3 and 4 Km from the nearest telephone station, you are probably getting about 30% of the advertised connection speed. (The signal degrades exponentially with distance from the broadcast node)



for example, I live in Japan and have 100mb ADSL. But, I live 3.5Km away from the telephone station. So, my actual measure download speed is a maximum 35mbps :-(



In order to ensure your network hardware is handling the most information possible at the fastest speed possible, you should download a good "network optimization" software. This will tweak your OS network connection settings so that it is working at maximum efficiency.



I Hope this helpsband Good Luck

Answer 2

It's connection but you can try listen with WINAMP just to be sure.

Answer 3

it is your connection speed, check with your provider to increase your adsl speed.