Robert>
Sun Mar 23 12:53:00 PDT 2008
I appreciate to all that responded. I will be getting broadband in the near
future.
Robert
"Bob Harris" wrote:
> I agree with the others, dial-up is too slow to support streaming videos.
> But, if you are very, very patient, if is possible that the entire video may
> eventually download to a cache area on your hard drive. Once that has
> completed, it might be possibly to play it without delays.
>
> However, if you are patient, you might be able to download a single video,
> then play it from your hard drive. The download part of that process will
> be painfully slow, since most You-Tube downloads are several Meg to several
> tens of Meg in size. You do the math to determine how long the downloading
> of a single You-Tube file might take.
>
> Of course, you might get a friend with broadband to do the downloading for
> you.
>
> To download a file you will need a third-party helper application. For the
> browser called Firefox there is a good, easy-to-use add-in called
> Downloadhelper. Both Firefox and Downloadhelper are free.
>
>
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
>
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
>
> If you search the web, you might a similar helper application for Internet
> Explorer.
>
> Once downloaded, you will then need a player for FLV-type files. A good
> free one is FLVPlayer:
>
>
http://www.flvplayer.com/
>
> Note that once you log-in to AOL, you can use any browser, not just the AOL
> browser, which is really a shell on top of Internet Explorer.
>
> If you have any option on getting broadband, consider doing it. Broadband
> is, of course, more expensive than dial-up. But, usually it is only about
> twice the price per month for something like 50 to 200 times the speed.
> Further, before I switched to broadband, I found that I was spending hours
> each month baby-sitting the downloading of patches for XP, antivirus, and
> other software. Even shopping on-line was painful, waiting for each small
> picture of each item in a web-catalog to appear. And, sometimes I timed-out
> or got disconnected while attempting to execute an on-line purchase. In the
> end I figured that my time was worth the extra money.
>
> An alternative to having your own broadband connection, is to check whether
> your local library has PCs with internet. If yes, then they also probably
> have broadband. However, a library may impose some filters on what you can
> view, and will probably have limits on how long one person uses a PC.
> Another alternative is to find a friend with broadband and either use their
> PC, or if you have a portable PC, try to add it to their network (i.e., via
> a wireless router).
>
> "Robersabel" <Robert> wrote in message
> news:8EC83EB3-7525-43C0-8491-1567D32DFB7E@microsoft.com...
> > Use AOL with dial-up XP PC
> >
> > I attempt to play you tube but it cycles 2-3 seconds and stops, then
> > starts
> > for another 2-3 seconds.
> >
> > Improves after clean cookies, disk cleanup, and defragmented.
> >
> > Directions state required Bradband to play.
> >
> > No option?
> >
> > Robert
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