Media Player Resource Conflicts with Wireless Network

I've got a problem while using the corporate Wireless Network and Media
Players simultaneously. While connected to the Wireless Network, within
minutes of starting a media playing application, the application hangs
up and stops playing the media. The CPU usage for that process spikes
up to 100% thereby not allowing other processes. The user interface
hangs up and the media player just stops playing there. However if we
forward to next song in the media player, the player plays for a while
and then again hangs up.

I thought this was systemic to my laptop, but I've found this problem
with friends who use the wireless network. I'm using a HP laptop while
my friends use different other brands. Further, I've tried a number of
players from WMP 11 Beta, WMP 10, WMP 9, Winamp, to iTunes 6.0/7.0 as
such and still every player acts in the same way. On the other hand,
the media players work perfectly when disconnected from the network.
I've swapped the Cisco VPN software to old versions, yet, this happens.


My network officer maintains that it has to do with corrupted files in
my laptop locally. If that is the case, my friend has a brand new Acer
laptop (only a month old and we havent exchanged any files) and he
experiences the same problem. And it happens irrespective of the
browser (Firefox 1.5/IE6.0)

Does anyone hav an idea to resolve this problem?

Magnus wrote:
> I've got a problem while using the corporate Wireless Network and
> Media Players simultaneously. While connected to the Wireless

> Does anyone hav an idea to resolve this problem?

Are you trying to play from the network? If so, try and copy it (or any mp3
you can find on the net) to your local system first and then play it from
your local disk...

Peter Pan wrote:
> Magnus wrote:
> > I've got a problem while using the corporate Wireless Network and
> > Media Players simultaneously. While connected to the Wireless
>
> > Does anyone hav an idea to resolve this problem?
>
> Are you trying to play from the network? If so, try and copy it (or any mp3
> you can find on the net) to your local system first and then play it from
> your local disk...

No... The files are played locally.

Magnus wrote:
> Peter Pan wrote:
>> Magnus wrote:
>>> I've got a problem while using the corporate Wireless Network and
>>> Media Players simultaneously. While connected to the Wireless
>>
>>> Does anyone hav an idea to resolve this problem?
>>
>> Are you trying to play from the network? If so, try and copy it (or
>> any mp3 you can find on the net) to your local system first and then
>> play it from your local disk...
>
> No... The files are played locally.

Is the problem on a laptop? If so, can you take it outside on a break or
something so it is outside the influence of the wireless network... That
will at least narrow it down to whether it is the software on the laptop or
the wireless network itself... If a desktop - can you get them to kill it
(the wireles network) for a few minutes for a test?

Seems it would be useful to find out if it happens without the network
influence.. (IE is it on the computer itself, or something related to
work/wireless network).. May make debugging easier if you know if the
problem is on your machine, or something to do with the work wireless
settings... Seems like the easiest way to check it may be to just use it
outside or turn off the wireless...