I have fiddled with a couple of settings on my laptop now and things seem to have improved a little.
I mean a 'little'; disabling my antivirus does make things speed up a bit, although CPU usage upon downloading is still pushing the 85% mark making my pc a tiny bit more responsive, still not acceptable though, as disabling AV is not advised.
I'm wondering what other processes I can kill.
My browser is still reaching 256,000kps whilst dling, should I kill that too? Or will that just break the file? Problem is that I will have to wait up till midnight to find out, free broadband at that time uc.
AND at something like 850kbs a second it takes 30 minutes to dl a 60min program just to find this out. Yawn.........Try to find some half decent stuff for half an hous to experiment with.
1366x768 screen resolution here and quality not bad on average dl
but HD is definately a no-no.
Pity theBBC doesn't come up with something that just WORKS instead of compromising your PC........
The trouble is that these big companies just don't care one bit. 'You got a lousy PC.....F**k off and buy something with a better spec' attitude.
I've noticed now you can actually contact them about an issue, unfortunately we have got a couple of boxes to input a very limited amount of information. THEN it TIMES-OUT!!!!
How to piss people off the professional way indeed.