With increasing regularity, when I attempt to listen to BBC Radio 4 FM,
via my own server, either via iPlayer or the 'BBC' app in MyApps, it
doesn't connect.  If I select Radio 4 LW instead, it's fine.

I'm not sure that it's to do with the time of day (i.e.
demand-related); although it is usually early morning when I try to
listen, I've also had this problem later in the morning, and in the
evening.

I'm not sure whether it's also a problem via squeezenetwork, because,
when I just selected R4 FM via that instead, it connected, and when I
then tried again via my server and iPlayer, it connected (as if the
problem via my server had 'cleared' in the interim).  I haven't tried
this enough times to draw a conclusion.

So, I wonder:

1. Is anyone else having a similar experience?
2. Is it a bandwidth vs. demand problem at the BBC R4 FM end?
3. Can squeezenetwork be expected to have more reliable connection / 
bandwidth?

This is happening so often that it's undermining, for me, the validity
of the internet radio route; I'm considering going back to good old
analogue - my old analogue alarm-clock radio can reliably wake me up in
the morning with R4 FM; the squeezebox method (SBR) can neither wake me
up with radio reliably, nor (lately) even play R4 FM when I then
manually select it.

TIA,
Dave.


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