Radio streams repeated rebuffering - solved (sort of)

Hi everyone,
I listen a great deal to radio streams with iTunes, well, I used to anyway.
For some time now the streaming quality has been rather poor: after only a few seconds it stalls and says it's rebuffering. After a little while it catches up and will play for another minute or sometimes a little longer before the next breakup - it's dreadful.
My 8Mbps/sec adsl is definitely fast enough but it just won't play uninterrupted.
I tried a few things like...
- adjusting buffer size
- different stations
- iTunes 4.7 on another Mac
... but the problem persists.
In my frustration I went to one of the stations' sites and discovered that one can stream the same programme via Real Player.
Guess what, Real Player has been playing that same programme now for more than an hour without any hiccups.
For instance I can play this stream http://netmusique.com/listen.php?stream=JM&type=pls just fine in RP but iTunes keeps stuttering.
If anyone cares to check I'd be very interested in your findings.
Cheers Martin
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I've noticed the same thing, stations seem to need to rebuffer constantly. I've noticed that some people have been posting it happens when they stream music through Airport Express but I've seen it just on my laptop. The fact that you had it happen with iTunes 4.7 makes me wonderif it has to do with Apple's servers. I've been told that is where the stations are coming from (which is why you can't add any to the radio list) But then again the stations I'm having trouble with aren't from iTunes but ones I've added into my library. Anyone have any ideas??

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