Firstly, apologies if this is posted in the wrong place. But I'm in need of help, from those who understand the inner workings of computers better than I do. Problem: after previously trouble-free operation, suddenly anything I try to download is choppy, glitchy, unlistenable. There are certain podcasts that I download regularly to make commuting bearable, and of course I download music too. But in the last few days things won't download properly.
- I download mainly from iTunes, from the BBC, and from a couple of niche music sites - but whatever the source, the problem persists, therefore I can assume it isn't an issue with some setting on one of those sites.
- when I do finish downloading anything from iTunes, the little picture which appears alongside the podcast's title is often corrupted; weird colours and shapes appearing in the pic, bars of white noise across it, etc.
- I compared a couple of the bad tracks on my mp3 player to the ones on the PC I transferred them from, and exactly the same faults happen at exactly the same time, therefore it's something wrong on my PC and not my mp3 player.
- I've been trying to update Skyrim with the 1.9 patch, but Steam keeps derping out on me. It'll get to 8% (always 8%, not 7% or 9%) and then the grey boxes just disappear from my screen, and when I reload Steam a message says "Update suspended - no connection" despite the fact that I am online when it does this. I just checked again, and while I was writing this here in one window, in the other Steam insists I have no connection.
- I've made no significant changes to my PC in the relevant past few days, installed nothing new and changed no settings. I did see a couple of posts online which sounded like they were having similar troubles, and they were advised to change settings in QuickTime, which I did - the problem persists.
I did just recently convert to a different Plusnet package, but these problems pre-date that by a few days and anyway I can't see how that would be a factor. So I ask for help - this is a real pain for me. Any ideas?
