Hi from Dementia Land,
Today I started watching an old safety video on Spike.com. My ISP is AOL, using their silver grade. The video lasts for 23 minutes and a few seconds, so you can imagine my annoyance when after 12 minutes and and 15 seconds the video stopped, and despite every effort on my part, could not be persuaded to continue.
Cooling down outside, I mentioned this stoppage to my neighbour, who is also on AOL. He said this was not unusual for AOL, and I was lucky , as his normally stopped after 9 minutes.
I returned to my cold seat , and decided to try watching the same video again, but this time using Mozilla Firefox as my browser. Success, the video played without a hitch through to the end.
My query - is this normal practice from AOL? My speeds do not vary greatly, so I was wondering if this was yet another way to cap my use of a service for which I pay???
Regards,
Harry.