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Sabrina0805 said:
Ok, I think it has something to do with my connection speed.

I need a broadband connection with 500+Kbps.

I have a broadband connection with 10Mbps.

Sorry - but I don't speak computer -- so I don't know if what I have is sufficient.

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More than sufficient.

in laymans terms, a KB is a kilobyte. a kilobyte is 1024(approximately) bytes. a MB is a Megabyte - which is 1042(approx)kilobytes. So when you see 10 MBPS it means ten(hah hah i bet you knew that 10 meant ten anyways ) Megabytes per second.

if you see 500 kbps it means - you got it - 500 kilobytes per second.

but, just because you have a 10 MBPS speed doesnt mean you can always download, or stream movies at that speed. Lots of things factor in - what else you are doing on the internet (if you are downloading something, surfing alot of pages, running lots of messengers,ect - anything internet based takes out a chunk)

Then, you need to also factor in the speed at which the website is sending you information - this is based off of what kind of speed connection the website server has. For example, lets say for simple sake that a website server has a server speed of, say, 10 MBPS. that website could handle ten people each taking information at a MBPS- again this is approx. But if you get 11 people drawing info, then it slows down.

Also factors in whether or not you have any local "bottlenecks" - what this means is that locally your internet service provider is very busy right now. Think of internet like a highway that fits(again for simplicitys sake) 10 cars zooming along side by side happily. Well, say another 20 cars get on the highway. They are going to be behind those other 10 cars and have to wait for them to go.

add another 200 - imagine the chaos!

of course most sites have MUCH higher server speeds than this example, but i hope that helps explain it.

Now, how to try and get things flowing:

-Empty out your cache of temporary internet files. On explorer, you can try going tools>internet options>delete files. make sure you are checking the box that says "delete offline files" too.

-try restarting. Sometimes this works. I cant explain why.

-make sure your not running alot of other programs at the same time, internet based or not.

-if all else fails, try calling your ISP to tell them your getting a slow connection. They have some good steps often to try