Hey Frank,Mike here from blip. Our network connections all look good... One catch is that we do "fair queue" people so that everyone gets a fair share of our bandwidth -- so if you're downloading a bunch of feeds at the same time you may find that each individual one runs a bit slower than if
yes, I've felt the same way over the weekend
but it appears to have been due to firefox/mac (for me)
I'm not sure why, but i think it might have been related to a short
network outage that left firefox/mac in a slightly confused state. i'm
guessing here, but when this happened, i had been
We've heard about a Firefox cache issue with blip before, and did everything we could to diagnose it, and the furthest we've come is that other browsers always work fine, and that restarting Firefox always fixes it.As far as Frank's problem, I think it's unrelated... It could be a result of many
Monday, November 14, 2005, 9:41:59 PM, Markus Sandy wrote:
yes, I've felt the same way over the weekend
but it appears to have been due to firefox/mac (for me)
...
don't know if that applies for you Frank, aren't you on windows?
I am, and to complicate the issue, I'm mainly seeing the
Frank,Did you get my e-mail off-list? Let's see if we can't run a couple tests to see whether there's a routing problem between you and blip.On Nov 14, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Frank Carver wrote:Monday, November 14, 2005, 9:41:59 PM, Markus Sandy wrote: yes, I've felt the same way over the weekendbut
Monday, November 14, 2005, 10:11:03 PM, Mike Hudack wrote:
Did you get my e-mail off-list? Let's see if we can't run a couple
tests to see whether there's a routing problem between you and blip.
I did. I even replied to it. I guess you didn't get the reply (or is
it hiding in your junk
I've noticed widely varying rates for downloading
various files from Blip TV. I actually thought it might be the fault of
the producers of the videos. However, I did have trouble uploading one
evening between eleven and midnight but everything went swiftly when I tried
again at 2:30 A.M
Hey Randy,The answer, as always, is "it depends."Generally speaking, the number of people downloading a specific video that's hosted on blip (or other big hosting services) shouldn't affect each individual's download speed. So the speed for one person should be the same whether one or twenty
Thanks, Mike. I really don't think anyone
providing "free services" should feel that they should apologize if some minor
problem develops.
I've always gotten fairly rapid replies and help to
any problems I had with Blip.
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
Videographer, Writer, ActivistAdvisor: The
