On 13 July 2011 21:15, Clive <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 13/07/2011 21:08, Christopher Woods (CustomMade) wrote: >> >> >>> >>> -----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? >> > I can't help with that. But to provide a little bit more information - which > does not lead anywhere - is that I just tried Falco using the PVR interface > and it came down like a train. I immediately tried one episode of Vanity Fair > and it failed and failed with the same set of error messages displayed on the > PVR web page interface. > > Does the use of a proxy avoid the problems if they are VM network issues or > traffic management? After all, the traffic still uses VM for the first/last > let of the journey. > > Clive
FWIW I'm on Virgin cable 50 meg, and not seeing any throttling at all. Just tried Afternoon Play: Torchwood pt 1 and speed peaked at 44119.270 kB / 2700.02 sec (99.9%) (it basically finished while the speed was still climbing). Tried Horizon - Moon and speed peaked at 345861.904 kB / 3541.12 sec (99.9%) (was still climbing when it finished too). So it's not Virgin cable per-se, or perhaps they're only throttling the cheaper subscriptions? Am happy to provide some more stats/tests, if you can tell me what to look at. Cheers, Robs _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
