2003 PDC sessions and firewall problems

[Greg Chapman]

I've been trying to watch/listen to some of the 2003 PDC sessions available
here:

http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm

I gather these are PowerPoint 2002 presentations. I don't have PowerPoint 2002,
but I downloaded the ActiveX control (Office Animation Control?) that allows me
to watch them.

I have been having some problems which seem to be related to my firewall
(ZoneAlarm Pro v. 4.5). In particular, if I pause and then restart a
presentatation, it takes a very long time to restart (a couple of minutes).
Also, transitions from slide mode to demo mode (which uses some kind of video
stream) also take a very long time (certainly more than a minute).

If I run the presentations with ZoneAlarm completely unloaded, they usually work
fine. Sometimes, though, they stop at a transition between demo and slides. I
should add that this is on my home system, which has an ADSL connection and a
simple (SpeedStream) router, which apparently also has some kind of firewall.
My operating system is Windows XP, service pack 1. And, in case it's relevant,
I have Media Player 9.

Any ideas on how I should configure things to get more reliable response from
these presentations?

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Austin Myers]

Greg,

It may well be that its a very slow server. I went to the site, and
monitored throughput (Netstat Live) and the best speed I seen was around 5KB
but it often dropped to less than 1KB a second.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[Greg Chapman]

It may well be that its a very slow server. I went to the site, and
monitored throughput (Netstat Live) and the best speed I seen was around 5KB
but it often dropped to less than 1KB a second.

Austin,

OK, I guess I'll just live with it then. Thanks for checking.