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When I try to watch a live Flash stream, my CPU usage goes up to 75% and my Internet speed goes down. If I run a test before the video-stream, my speed is ~40/10Mbps and during the stream it drops to 0.1-0.5Mbps. The stream is laggy and I can only watch one to two seconds at a time, start/stop/start/stop.

I have cleared my history, cache, cookies, temp files, and so on. I have searched for malware and took care of that. I have updated my drivers, reinstalled Flash and everything else I can think of, but it remains slow. I had this problem before and it just started working normally from one day to another. Could it be a hardware problem?

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The CPU usage is just a side effect of the fact that a lot of processing is going on. What kind of CPU do you have? What is your operating system? Chances are that the CPU usage is not abnormal, and chances are also that the CPU is not causing your stream to "start and stop"... especially if it's not at 100% CPU usage... 75% still means you have 25% of the time when the CPU is completely idle, so it wouldn't be the bottleneck.

You're using wireless to a router to a DSL or cable modem, right? :) I'm just guessing because it sounds like you are suffering from Bufferbloat.

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