WMP 11 knocks out my internet connection in both XP and Vista

I've had this continuing problem trying to play soccer game videos on several
websites, namely www.mlsnet.com, www.usllive.com, and www.cbc.ca. I try to
connect to the games, which are shown in Windows Media Player. The player
will say it is connecting, locating the media, connecting again, and then
"Ready". At this point every time I try to load the video, my internet
connection goes down. I have cable internet through Comcast, with a Linksys
wireless router. I end up having to unplug power from the wireless router
and replug it in to get the computer to find an internet connection again.
I've tried this on a desktop with XP and a laptop with Vista, tried clearing
caches, tried going through customer service at MLSnet.com with a
second-level IT person, with no luck. I've tried re-installing windows media
player 11, and also reverting to WMP 9. Does anyone else have a similar
problem that they have been able to figure out? Can anyone help me with this?

Neil
Sun Jul 13 15:23:08 PDT 2008

There were known problems with the Linksys firmware on some routers
last year : http://tinyurl.com/66zey5 which if you follow their forum
links, might get you a re-flash image for the router that could solve
your problem - I haven't followed that up since last year though.

There's a recont post about this here which seems similar
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?p=28167777
Again, flashing the firmware was indicated as resolution.

I do have a WRTG-54 here which I have no problems with though.

HTH
Cheers - Neil


On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 19:37:00 -0700, Jeff
<Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I've had this continuing problem trying to play soccer game videos on several
>websites, namely www.mlsnet.com, www.usllive.com, and www.cbc.ca. I try to
>connect to the games, which are shown in Windows Media Player. The player
>will say it is connecting, locating the media, connecting again, and then
>"Ready". At this point every time I try to load the video, my internet
>connection goes down. I have cable internet through Comcast, with a Linksys
>wireless router. I end up having to unplug power from the wireless router
>and replug it in to get the computer to find an internet connection again.
>I've tried this on a desktop with XP and a laptop with Vista, tried clearing
>caches, tried going through customer service at MLSnet.com with a
>second-level IT person, with no luck. I've tried re-installing windows media
>player 11, and also reverting to WMP 9. Does anyone else have a similar
>problem that they have been able to figure out? Can anyone help me with this?
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zachd
Sun Jul 20 16:56:20 PDT 2008


This indicates that your sound card driver and your network connection are
probably conflicting, probably due to a bug in your networking driver.

Go to WMP's Tools:Options:Performance and manually specify your connection
speed and this should likely stop happening.

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97179702-39FE-4D9F-9299-EC3AFFCAE5CF@microsoft.com...
> I've had this continuing problem trying to play soccer game videos on
> several
> websites, namely www.mlsnet.com, www.usllive.com, and www.cbc.ca. I try
> to
> connect to the games, which are shown in Windows Media Player. The player
> will say it is connecting, locating the media, connecting again, and then
> "Ready". At this point every time I try to load the video, my internet
> connection goes down. I have cable internet through Comcast, with a
> Linksys
> wireless router. I end up having to unplug power from the wireless router
> and replug it in to get the computer to find an internet connection again.
> I've tried this on a desktop with XP and a laptop with Vista, tried
> clearing
> caches, tried going through customer service at MLSnet.com with a
> second-level IT person, with no luck. I've tried re-installing windows
> media
> player 11, and also reverting to WMP 9. Does anyone else have a similar
> problem that they have been able to figure out? Can anyone help me with
> this?