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Internet disconnection when watching flash videos

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http://forums.opensuse.org – Hi folks, I'm not sure whether this problem suits this section, though this was the best place I could find. It happens a lot that when I'm watching flash videos (e.g. on youtube) I get disconnected from the internet for a short time (about a minute - sometime less and sometime a little more). Sometimes I reconnect manually as it seems to work faster. I have had problems with flash before (crashing), but this one is new. The problem started about a month ago when I moved to a new apartment and so had a new internet connection. I've checked it on windows and didn't have any problem. The prob (Distributions)

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I need an easy to use lightweight distro. I basically want to use the machine for C programming, e-mail, web browsing and watching flash videos (youtube etc...) I am running linut mint 9 LXDE on it now. The only problem is that when I try to watch flash videos, the CPU usage becomes 100% and some videos don't even play properly.

Hello!

I did not find any search results for this constellation of problems, so I decided to post a new thread for this.

Despite a working broadband connection (I have already checked this with my ISP), I have problems with the following Internet applications:

Flash videos (such as Youtube) do not work despite having installed the correct flash plugins.

Who likes to watch stream videos inside the flash videoplayer? Not me.That's how I got rid of it.First of all you have to install the flashblock plugin in your browser (there's a version for chromium and firefox). Other browsers, like xxxterm can be configured to obtain the same result.

So for awhile now when I try to play youtube videos in full screen, it's choppy and lagged. Impossible to watch.

I have read around, and none of the solutions fix my problem, most are windows based. The one where you go into the plugins settings and disable one of the flash, well I only have one flash available.

Can't find anymore information.

I posted this question on my disto-specific forum, however it appears to be a unique problem, so here it is:

One for the problem solvers amongst you.

I am connecting to the Internet through a Zyxel prestige 600 wireless router from my Acer Aspire One which is running Fedora 10.

Watching Youtube without flash 39 weeks 3 days ago

This isn't really a HOWTO, just a few ideas gathered here and there that might be useful, mixed in with some questions and a request for others to add any of their own discoveries.The need to Do Something about Youtube came up in the #! Global Sounds thread.

Hi,

I am using 12.04, FF 16.0.2, Flash 11.2.

Problem is while watching videos at youtube the video stops after playing for 3-4 mins.

It displays the buffering indication but I can see there is no data transfer coz the LEDs of

my router shows no activity (not blinking).

At this point if I manually move the video progress slider to an advance time data transfer happens and the video starts pl