Can't play radio stations

After a station plays for 10 seconds or so I get the message "network stalled" and I'm told that ITunes is "rebuffering stream". This happens once or twice, then ITunes just stops trying to play the station. This happens on every station I have tried to play. Yes, I have gone to preferences and increased the buffering size. This is about the 5th annoying glitch since I bought this piece of junk Mac with the Intel chip. I'm about ready to throw it out the window and go back to my old IMac. Any help out there?
Mac OS X (10.4.4)

There is a discrepancy between the stream rate and your ISP connection rate - your connection rate is slower than the stream rate. Or the server is overloaded and can't supply all the streams that are connected. Or you are downloading several web pages or other files at the same time - competing for bandwidth.
iTunes radio works. I listen all the time (over DSL).
Tracy

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The issues that we know about I can either recreate by following the same procedure (ie album art) or can't because I don't have the set up to recreate it (ie HDMI) but accept that it exists because of the volume and reliability of the users posting such problems. I have neither heard this issue before nor am able to recreate it, I accept it exists but believe it may be as a result of specific unusual circumstances.
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Ryan M.
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Baltimore, Maryland Yes, you can add radio stations to iTunes. However, you cannot add the radio stations to the Radio source in the source list. You only have the ability to add radio stations into the Library source.
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I read the answer to this question and appreciated the information, but where on the web do you find the sources that were listed - namely:
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• Macstreams/Rogue Amoeba
• Live365.com
• UK Radio Stations
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• Radio-Locator (not the best for locating online radio feeds)
I would like to add internet stations, too, but don't know how to find the stations.
----wb

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