Three Months to the Bar.

Remember I have been blogging about the challenges I have been wrestling to overcome in regard of Chanroblesbar online review particularly on its video streaming efficiency? I've written them several times to bring the issue to their attention, and I was informed that my predicament was an isolated one, and they suggested that it was peculiar to me. What can I do, I wish I knew some reviewees who use the same service. I have been googling using all possible keywords or combination of keywords that anyone having trouble with it would google-type in search for answers, but to no luck.

Does this mean there's no entry of those keywords because there's no such streaming problem in general, and I am just a poor unlucky guy that all possible wrongs that could go with the use of the site have funneled like rain on me? I doubt so, you see I don't give up easily. It could be that not all who use the internet turn to googling for answers to problems, others simply don't know how to do that, or get too exasperated to even bother taking the extra time on the same electronic monitor trying to find an antidote to a problem. Or are there even enough number of users of the site to even dent the google algorithm for searches, I mean as basis for statistics. I'd like to think so, but sans any proof , I would consider the latter more plausible.

In all honesty, I would like to believe that many have enrolled in this for obvious plus on convenience. Strangely, there's no forum site, so you don't have any idea how many users there are, or whether you ridiculously feel crowded by yourself, shucks!

So anyone out who knows someone using the service please help hook-net me up. Email add or fb would do.  Would appreciate that. Meantime, I am trying my luck again, just finished cleaning my PC. As they say: 'hope springs eternal."

And the quest continues...

A Case of Overstretched IPR Concern?

Yesterday, I posted that ever since signing up to this Chanroblesbar internet bar review some three months ago, I have been hounded by this unrelenting video streaming problem. Video streaming quality is the whole thing if you want make sense of this online review. On my end, I have done everything I possibly could.

Just the other day I engaged the services of a programmer and information specialist to check on all that could possibly contribute to how my PC and connection performs. He checked on all the specs and found them decently over the minimum requirement, but this site's video streaming continued its lethargic pace, a seeming eternal buffering. I have reasons to be confident of my systems: I have tested youtube video streaming and online movies and they seem seamless, and notably they are free sites.

I suspect may be because Chanrobles has always asserted its proprietary copyright interest on these materials (and rightly so, no debate on that), they may have over-secured them with layers of encryption that ultimately substantially compromised its very accessibility. All is not too late though, if Chanrobles  wants to make this so-called revolutionary review format of any use at all, it had better called in its IT people and do the necessary modification to make them truly useful. Right now, it's all but frustrating experience and a huge waste of time.

I wonder if they themselves try to stream their own posted videos.

As a quick help to the enrolled users, Chanrobles should upload audio versions as they are less connection-capacity intensive, after all it is what the lecturers say that audience are most interested in. I doubt videogenics would help a barrister remember any provision come bar exams.

ChanRobles Online Bar Review

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Battle is Won not by the  Sword, but by the Warrior Who Wields it!

I have enrolled in the online review of the country's "revolutionary" online bar review service. I definitely loved the idea of being able to do what otherwise would be an expensive and daunting traffic-negotiating engagement, right at the comfort of my own home, even my room, scratch that, even while enjoying the sunset on the beach, which is literally doable where I come, Calbayog City, Samar.

It's easy to see from the get-go what advantages this format offers compared to the traditional brick-and-mortar review, though, admittedly live face-to-face review could sometimes be fun as lecturers can play up with their audience to hold their attention.In that sense, it is more effective at wielding focus, in contrast to online's nagging distractions of fb, and other tempting else to-do right at a strike of a key. The latter demands discipline, the mere mention of which gets you hives, if you're anything like me. Overall, the trade-off is fair,  and I insist that the latter suits me fine.

However, I have always had this problem of video buffering, such that by the time I get to the end of an hour or so video clip, I have a hard tie recalling what the early parts were about. I tried to get all the help. Just recently I needed to hire a programmer to look at my PC systems vis-a-vis its compliance with the requirement and they're all fine (dual core processor an a gigabit of RAM). I had the system purged of any unnecessary programs that could be compromising its performance.  I checked my wimax connectivity and it's almost seamless it seemed at the time the tech guy was running his diagnostics (but my, globe has not always been like this either and I am praying this holds). All suggests I should be breezing through, except that I am not.

In fact, I tried youtube stuffs just to test its streaming speed quality and it's been the fastest I have seen since this wimax was installed. But chanroblesbar videos refused to share the sprint game, and continue to drag their feet.Sans all these glitches, I have no doubt the course is up to scale considering the roster of reviewers. The more that it excites me and the downtime frustrates me. But I am testing it now in light of some four hours of tweaking with the systems done by the tech guy, which I did not understand completely, but obliged to give my aha nods anyway. I want to put it more like I didn't want to steal his tech trade secrets, though he was kind enough to volunteer some do-it-yourself stuff.

The BIG problem is, we're fast careening to that DAY. I'm not getting cold feet, but this genuinely concerns me, so for you guys out there who may had had this kind of troubles, please shoot me some suggestions.

Good luck and God bless!