stupid question time.....video playing
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the very fact you are watching your monitor means you have a graphics card, it may be a poor graphics card but I assure you, you have a graphics card 
What actually happens when you say they run slowly? Immediatly I'm thinking you have dialup connection (i.e your computer is plugged into the phone line) rather than broadband (em, it's still plugged into phoneline (ADSL) but has microfilters, or is a seperate network lead.). Dialup is slow, really slow, essentially at maximum rate you can download things at 1/20 MegaBit per second, where as with broadband you can get things at 1/2 MegaBit per second.
The better way to watch movies would be to right-click on the link, choose "Save Target As", download them to your PC and watch them from there.
What actually happens when you say they run slowly? Immediatly I'm thinking you have dialup connection (i.e your computer is plugged into the phone line) rather than broadband (em, it's still plugged into phoneline (ADSL) but has microfilters, or is a seperate network lead.). Dialup is slow, really slow, essentially at maximum rate you can download things at 1/20 MegaBit per second, where as with broadband you can get things at 1/2 MegaBit per second.
The better way to watch movies would be to right-click on the link, choose "Save Target As", download them to your PC and watch them from there.
Thanks. I have a dial up connection, i'm not on broadband. Okay point taken over the graphics card! It didnt know if there was any additions i could make to speed it up. I try your suggestion of saving it on my harddrive and replying it. It seems broadband may be the way to go. Thanks for your help.
Let me explain further,
a modem turns your digital signal in your computer (lots of 1 and 0's) into analogue (wave form). Due to the restrictions on the telephone wire, the maximum, reliable transfer that can be successfully transmitted is 56,000 kbps (kilobits per second). There are 8 bits to a byte, and 1024 bytes in a kilobyte. With me still? Anyway, divide 56k by 8 and you get 7kb (kilobyte) download rate assuming you have the best possible connection.
A broadband connection works slightly differently. Although you still have a modem (or a router) the signals are different and the phone line can now take a lot more data (ADSL = BT = existing phone line, DSL = Telewest, NTL... = new network cable = better). This has roughly 512,000 kbps which equates to a maximum download of 60kb (kilobytes) per second. This is much more reliable speed as well.
You got that? Essentially look at it this way, Broadband is roughly 9x faster than dialup, but costs £30 per month.
Hardware. In your situation improving your hardware will do little if nothing for you downloading movies and the like from the internet. More RAM may help you watch them, but it won't make you download any faster. Graphics cards now-a-days are pretty similar and are all as good as each other when it comes to 2D graphics such as movies at the base level (what you are using), in gaming you might need a better card, but not for normal desktop use!
If you need any help, there are plenty of people on here, and plenty of more specalised boards capable of pointing you in the right direction (the more specailised boards don't like to help newbies like yourself that much tho, they tend to be geeks. Like me
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a modem turns your digital signal in your computer (lots of 1 and 0's) into analogue (wave form). Due to the restrictions on the telephone wire, the maximum, reliable transfer that can be successfully transmitted is 56,000 kbps (kilobits per second). There are 8 bits to a byte, and 1024 bytes in a kilobyte. With me still? Anyway, divide 56k by 8 and you get 7kb (kilobyte) download rate assuming you have the best possible connection.
A broadband connection works slightly differently. Although you still have a modem (or a router) the signals are different and the phone line can now take a lot more data (ADSL = BT = existing phone line, DSL = Telewest, NTL... = new network cable = better). This has roughly 512,000 kbps which equates to a maximum download of 60kb (kilobytes) per second. This is much more reliable speed as well.
You got that? Essentially look at it this way, Broadband is roughly 9x faster than dialup, but costs £30 per month.
Hardware. In your situation improving your hardware will do little if nothing for you downloading movies and the like from the internet. More RAM may help you watch them, but it won't make you download any faster. Graphics cards now-a-days are pretty similar and are all as good as each other when it comes to 2D graphics such as movies at the base level (what you are using), in gaming you might need a better card, but not for normal desktop use!
If you need any help, there are plenty of people on here, and plenty of more specalised boards capable of pointing you in the right direction (the more specailised boards don't like to help newbies like yourself that much tho, they tend to be geeks. Like me
)Thanks again for your help. I was aware of the speed difference between broadband and dial up connections, but i didnt know why, so ta very imformative.
I have been thinking of upgrading to broadband and read with interest the post on which is the best. Something which you may be able to shed light on is on one the standard cost was £23, although looking into it having the ability to search coat an extra £17. I proberly would have gone for it at £23, but being a tight b*&^*&>d i was waiting till charges got to £20 ish per month.
Thanks again for the info.
I have been thinking of upgrading to broadband and read with interest the post on which is the best. Something which you may be able to shed light on is on one the standard cost was £23, although looking into it having the ability to search coat an extra £17. I proberly would have gone for it at £23, but being a tight b*&^*&>d i was waiting till charges got to £20 ish per month.
Thanks again for the info.
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