QuickTime is a great plug-in that almost everyone has on their system to run multimedia clips, especially while on the Internet. If you haven’t installed it yourself, some software that you’ve used has probably installed it on your system during its own installation.

But odds are QuickTime is configured too slowly for your modem — which makes for longer-than-necessary QuickTime downloads. Or it may be set for a speed that's too quick for your modem and computer system to handle efficiently.

You can check this in your control panel called QuickTime or QuickTime Settings. In the control panel, select Connection Speed from the drop-down menu and click on the speed that corresponds to your modem.

On four machines we checked it on, Quicktime was set for 28.8/33.6 Kbps instead of 56K to match the modem capabilities.

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