Video Viewing and Buffer problems on Macbook unibody

Hey I just got this macbook aluminum unibody it's only almost 6 months old. I got it from a friend in perfect condition with receipts and everything. This is my first mac ever and I love the way it works, except I have a few issues that I don't know how to deal with.

He restored it to factory defaults for me and I installed ONLY aim, office, and firefox and updated Flash player to the latest version. I still have about 140+ gigs free and it has 2 gigs of RAM in it. I haven't even started to move my files from my old pc to the mac yet.

When I tried to stream a video from hulu, it takes a few minutes to buffer fully and the video skips when it's buffering. It also buffers more than once during the course of 1 hour show. It did the same with a youtube video, it just skips. Somebody told me it has something to do with the speed of the internet and the speed of the computer? I'm not sure what that means or how to deal with it.

Again, this is just streaming, not downloading movies or anything.

Can someone help me out please?

 

Thanks a lot, I was just using wifi I guess that was it. I'll try the Ethernet connection and see what happens. I'll see about the speedtest too.

Good to know what's going on, eventually I'll catch on.

Thanks a lot!

 

Well I'm at my macbook right now, and I was going to tried to connect to the ethernet connection I have in my apartment, but I can't do it! Now I'm getting frustrated. I have an internet connection I can't use because of some ip address situation and wireless connections that I can't fully take advantage of because of the speed of the laptop or the proximity to the router?

I mean I thought the best thing about having a laptop was that you could hook up to the internet anywhere there was wifi and you were good to go. I don't know what to think now.

I had a pc that connected fine to the same wireless connection and I also have a brand new Toshiba living in the other side of my apartment that has no issues with the wireless connection at all. It seems to be just my macbook that just I guess isn't getting enough signal to stream a simple hulu video.

 

Hey thanks for trying to help out. I already am using Firefox and I updated Flash. It still takes forever to buffer a video and it buffers a few times during an episode.

I'm trying to update the software on the computer and that's proving problematic for me as well. I don't know how to manually install the software.

I'd be happy if this streaming issue was fixed tho. Anybody who has an idea of what i can try is welcome to throw it out here.