# FLVPlayback connection latency with IE6 but not Firefox

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flvplayback-connection-latency-with-ie6-but-not-firefox/230618>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 27, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flvplayback-connection-latency-with-ie6-but-not-firefox/230618 "2007-06-27T18:02:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![PainBehindMyEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@PainBehindMyEye](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/PainBehindMyEye)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flvplayback-connection-latency-with-ie6-but-not-firefox/230618/1 "2007-06-27T18:02:59Z")

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I’ve posted around online regarding this but no response elsewhere. Then I remembered all the smart folks are at [Kirupa.com](http://Kirupa.com)😉

I’m having a rather serious latency problem with the ActiveX Flash player 9 and the FLVPlayback component when within IE6 on Windows. There’s no issue when using the standard Flash 9 plugin within Firefox.

The problem is that the status bar is just sitting there and the stream connection is not initiated for quite some time. Eventually (in some cases minutes later) the connection is established.

To see what I’m talking about, have a look at [http://205.200.127.103/video.html](http://205.200.127.103/video.html)

Again, this only appears to be a problem with IE6 on Windows (XP).

Does anybody have any ideas as to why this happens in IE6? Any work-arounds? (aside from not using IE6 :smirk2: )

Thanks in advance for any help or insight anyone can provide. I’m starting to lose my marbles with this one.

- PBME