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Technology Requirements for watching video files

In order to watch Windows Media or Adobe Flash videos on the Live @ CUA site, your network and computer must meet certain requirements.

Requirements

Network

For a good viewing experience,  your network should be capable of consistently delivering 1.0 Mbps download speeds to your computer. You can test your network speed using sites such as Speedtest.net.

Most home cable or fiber-optic based Internet service connections (such as Comcast or Verizon FiOS) exceed this requirement. If your connection is DSL, you should test your speed, as not all DSL connections are fast enough. Dial-up connections are not fast enough for viewing the videos on this site.

Microsoft Windows computers

Apple Mac OS computers

Testing your configuration

You can test test whether your computer is correctly configured to view videos on this site by watching all or part of these example videos.

Design Council 2010 - Designing the Future of Sustainability (Windows Media)

The World is Waiting (Adobe Flash)

Support information for other devices

  • Apple iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch will not be able to view the video on this site and are not supported.
  • Other computers and mobile devices may be able to view videos on this site, but support is not provided.

 

Viewing Panopto Lectures

Please visit:

http://help.panopto.com/coursecast-2-articles/36-viewing/115-viewing-requirements21

For viewing requirements for Panopto.