> > I rang Plusnet and they said I should use something called WireShark > (available from their web site) to capture packet information and then > open and issue and send them the logs. > Wireshark or Ethereal capture all network traffic. I think it will show that TCP stream is intact. You need to analyse the RealAudio traffic within the TCP stream - I think standard WireShark does not have tools for this - perhaps PlusNet has something but they could be stalling.
> > The BBC wma streams seem much better but I do get the occasional "lost > connection" where I just have to restart the stream to get any joy. > WMA reaction to congestion is different to RealAudio and so it will "sound" different. > > We have Nildram ADSL at work and I listened to radio 4 for two hours > yesterday, and no stutters at all. > I believe BBC organise their RealServer server banks by regions and behaviour can vary from region to region - perhaps the Nildram ADSL is in a different region. Are you listening with AlienBBC or RealPlayer ? There may be an mplayer issue as IIRC RealPlayer deals with the dropped packets slightly differently than mplayer. If you are using RealPlayer - are you using RTSP (port 554) or HTTP (port 80) as the transport protocol ? > > If you like conspiracy theories, PlusNet were the first ISP to report > that the BBC iPlayer had increased their bandwidth usage a lot (but on > the other hand we pay for bandwidth why should this matter to them?). > Perhaps they feel you do not pay enough. PlusnNet built a network to last x years coping with growth and so prices were set accordingly. Unexpected (i.e.unplanned) higher traffic means more investment is needed to meet service agreements - who'll pay for the new equipment. > > Newnet (who I used to be with, say they do no shaping/throttling at > all). > A few years ago, in the US a number of telco related ISPs said they did not do shaping/throttling of VOIP traffic - they were later proven to be doing so. What happens in Network Engineering may not always reach Marketing's ears. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52022 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
