What better way to spend one of my days off than troubleshooting network issues?! For some weird reason, I’ve started having difficulties with streaming video, namely YouTube and now Netflix is acting up too. I’d start downloading/streaming a video, it would load about halfway, then just stop playing. I’d have to pause then restart the video, or scrub all the way to the end before going back to the middle of the movie to hopefully have it play through. This happened once before, then the issue magically resolved itself, and it’s now back again.
I’m curious, is anyone else experiencing issues like this? Doesn’t seem to have any bearing whether I’m connected via Ethernet or Wireless, I run both an 802.11b/g and 802.11n networks (separate, actually two different devices entirely), iPhones, iPads, all Macs in the house (hehe I’ve been waiting a long time to say that), but still I’m getting wonky behavior on the network.
I’m in the middle of a fresh backup of 600+ GB of data from my MacBook to my Time Capsule, but once that finishes I might try taking my Airport Extreme out of the equation to see if that resolves the issue.
It seems that tech support, I’m afraid, is always open…
Grab ahold of something, the next 5 days may bring about some weirdness with johnbamber.com here. When I first bought the domain name a number of years ago, I registered with a service whose fees were a bit expensive. I’d signed up for a number of years so having to renew didn’t come up until now, and I think I’ve owned johnbamber.com for a good 5 years now… Anyways, I’m transferring the domain to a different registrar so all of my domains are in the same place. I spoke with a rep over there and he guided me through the process fairly seamlessly. Right now, I’m in the “waiting” period, I just have to wait for all of the information to propagate and the transfer to complete. He said that access to my website should be unaffected, but e-mails sent to me may bounce back with an error during this timeframe. Just figured I’d let you know, if you send me an e-mail sometime between now and next Monday, the 14th, it might bounce back. If you like, you can visit the “Contact” page and e-mail me using the form, since it will go to a different e-mail address for the time being and not be affected by the changeover. Thanks!!
