Re: Speed of bbc.co.uk? (was RE: [backstage] Future of BBC's iPlayer in doubt - Sunday Herald - Kangaroo ...)

2007-12-07 Thread Sean Dillon
Brendan Quinn wrote: That's interesting, does anyone else find bbc.co.uk to be any slower than other sites? I can't imagine why anyone in Durham (where this commenter said they lived) would have a particularly bad experience with bbc.co.uk, even JANET users should have fairly good bandwidth lin

Re: Speed of bbc.co.uk? (was RE: [backstage] Future of BBC's iPlayer in doubt - Sunday Herald - Kangaroo ...)

2007-12-04 Thread Brian Butterworth
Brendan, Perhaps it's the RSS feeds for the podcasts? They are the only bit of bbc.co.uk that are slow in my experience. On 03/12/2007, Brendan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's interesting, does anyone else find bbc.co.uk to be any slower than > other sites? I can't imagine why anyon

Re: Speed of bbc.co.uk? (was RE: [backstage] Future of BBC's iPlayer in doubt - Sunday Herald - Kangaroo ...)

2007-12-03 Thread Sean DALY
My impression is that this is a comment from a nontechnical user. She says "system" and talks about download, was she referring to the iPlayer client? If she is using a Mac, that would explain why it doesn't work. Maybe she is using Windows and has spyware slowdown syndrome. Maybe she can't get Rea

Speed of bbc.co.uk? (was RE: [backstage] Future of BBC's iPlayer in doubt - Sunday Herald - Kangaroo ...)

2007-12-03 Thread Brendan Quinn
That's interesting, does anyone else find bbc.co.uk to be any slower than other sites? I can't imagine why anyone in Durham (where this commenter said they lived) would have a particularly bad experience with bbc.co.uk, even JANET users should have fairly good bandwidth links and our servers certai