ModelCitizen has pointed out that time-of-day may be significant. I know when testing for a BBC RealAudio bug I found that BBC servers used to drop data on R4 more frequency between 5.pm-7.30pm Mon-Thur, about 11.00-12.00 Sunday. This is an indication that certain parts of the network between BBC and my PC were getting congested.
The same sort of issue might be happening with Virgin - for example, at certain times of the day, some of their network may be getting congested and the backbone switches start dropping data packets and so are relying on BBC to resend the dropped data - this could cause a stream to stop. There are many other scenarios which are not "bandwidth shaping" but just traffic management. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
