Windows Media Player question

[HookemHrns03]

A few days ago, I started having some problems with my Windows Media Player.

Every few seconds it would start buffering, then play a little bit, then buffer for awhile longer.

It'd also do that annoying 10%, 25%, 50%, 80%, 95%, 70%, 22%, 90% thing.

And when it wasn't buffering, it would play for a little bit and then the video would freeze up.

And now when I'm trying to watch the A's game on MLB.tv, it freezes and/or buffers literally every 5 seconds. But this wasn't happening last week, or anytime before.

Does anybody know what's wrong and how I can fix it?

Thanks.

 

[MeaHorn]

Even Microsoft knows that baseball sucks.

Seriously, it's probably a problem with mlb.tv. Are you seeing the same on other websites?

 

[HookemHrns03]

Yeah. I've tried to watch video from other websites. Same thing is happening.

 

[MrPhlegm]

When was the last time you defrag'ed your hard drive?

 

[HookemHrns03]

I'm not too smart when it comes to computers.

How would I do that?

 

[Mal]

Questions:
1. How fast is your connection or what type is it?
2. Does it occur on non-streaming video?

 

[HookemHrns03]

I figured out how to defrag last night and did it.

A) I have a cable connection, but I did some bandwidth tests and its running extremely slow
B) No. Only streaming video.

 

[HookemHrns03]

I think I've got it figured out. I just went and hit reset on my router and then ran another bandwith test and it literally quadrupled.

 

[HookemHrns03]

It got slow again. And then I reset the router again, and its fast again.

Is this normal?

 

[Mal]

Have you checked for spyware? I have heard of spyware slowing fast connections to a crawl.

 

[HookemHrns03]

Yep. I run adaware about once a day.