Streaming has slowed to a crawl on my MacBook Pro. This is using both Safari and Firefox. What can I do to return streaming speed to normal?

I have been trying to look through Activity Monitor but nothing looks strange there. This happened all of a sudden about 2 weeks ago and has continually become worse and worse to the point that a video won't even stream beyond 2 or 3 seconds past the point being viewed.

Please describe in detail all you have attempted to do in order to resolve the issue.
How large is your hard drive and how much hard drive space do you have left?   How much ram do you have?  Is it maxed out?  How are you connected to the internet when streaming?  Ethernet connection is faster than wireless.  Especially when it comes to streaming.
Check with your isp to determine if the issue is on their end.
Check your computer speed on the Speedtest website.
Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Repaired permissions lately or repaired your disk from the disc that came with your computer?

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