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  • #1

    A heavy optimization for your Internet connection

    Simply don't have Windows Media Player opened in the background and playing CD's while you are connected.
    Sat on a pile of deads, I enjoy my oysters.
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  • #2
    That would downgrade my 100Mbps connection to 50Mbps? The horror!

    But would you care to give us some explanation? I don't have those problems here (w2k)

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    • #3
      Well, that's not that much a problem for me now that I know it.

      Simply, if I have WMP in the background, the connection errors jump very high. About 1 or 2 at second
      Sat on a pile of deads, I enjoy my oysters.

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      • #4
        Dude we need details here... what kind of net connection/type of modem/OS etc
        "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

        "Always do good. It will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~Mark Twain

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        • #5
          Probably MS spying on you
          Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
          Motion Computing M1400 -- Tablet PC, Ubuntu Linux

          "if I said you had a beautiful body would you take your pants off and dance around a bit?" --Zapp Brannigan

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          • #6
            I'd noticed that when playing UT.

            Don't ask why I had MP7 and UT going at the same time.

            err., never mind, I'll just explain-

            I have a multimedia keyboard, and sometimes get into hot'n'heavy matches, with lots of rapid movement around my keyboard keys. I guess I hit the play button by accident or something (only happened 3 of 4 times since I got the kb over a year ago). Anyway, UT suddenly slowed to a crawl, with the nice red connection indicator on-screen. Alt-Enter to put it into a window revealed MP7 displayed on screen. Closing it allowed UT to work properly again.

            Go figure..
            "..so much for subtlety.."

            System specs:
            Gainward Ti4600
            AMD Athlon XP2100+ (o.c. to 1845MHz)

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            • #7
              WMP7 does talk to MS (one of the many reasons I still run MP6.4) about a lot of stuff, but I don't think it was your connection that was really running out. It was contention for your own internal buses.
              Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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