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I have a slow dialup connection and the audio keeps stopping and re-buffering. Whats wrong?

April 26, 2017audio connection DIALUP re-buffering slow stopping wrong

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I have a slow dialup connection and the audio keeps stopping and re-buffering. Whats wrong?

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Dialup connections between 28K and 56K are not fast enough for the 100K video stream, but I should be adequate for the 8K audio stream. The Microsoft Windows Media Player auto detects your connection speed by default and tries to play a stream it can handle. However, if you have an Internet connection accelerator program that claims to double, triple, quadruple, etc. the speed of your connection it will deceive your programs (i.e. Media Player) into thinking they have a faster connection than they do. The accelerators work by reducing the size and quality of the graphic images your browser downloads (i.e., jpg, gif, bmp). This will do nothing for a video or audio stream though. To get around this, either turn off your Internet accelerator software, or manually set the connection speed of the Media Player to match your true dialup speed.