> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clive > Sent: 13 July 2011 20:29 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is anyone else's running slooowwwwlllyyy? > > It seems to have settled down to totally unusable. Either the > connection establishes very slowly and invariably times out > or it establishes very quickly and at random points in the > download either re-starts itself with the error messages:
What the rest of us need to see is some comparative analysis of transfers done over your connection direct, and some downloads done through a (reliable, fast) proxy server using a VPN or SSH tunnel. If someone geeky fancies doing some testing but is short of a good bandwidthed UK server to route through for testing, I can give them a lend of my machine in Maidstone. (contact me off-list if you want to organise.) The speed test / results should then help narrow down the root cause - whether it's poor routing, congestion in your area, obvious traffic shaping or whether it's being done by the Beeb based on the behaviour of get_iplayer itself. (or perhaps all four...?) To confirm, everyone suffering is on Virgin Media cable? _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
