I've realised that it's stranger than I'd thought. I'd been thinking that their message meant 'broadband connection' but actually the BBC message says "Sorry, programmes can only be accessed over a wifi connection." Given that I'm accessing it from an iPod which doesn't have an Ethernet connector and, to my scanty knowledge, can't access the Internet via the dock connector, how on earth do the BBC think that I'm using my iPod to access their site in the first place??!!
Stephen On 9 Nov 2008, at 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Curioser and curioser. > > I don't understand how it can be the provider - surely the BBC iPlayer > HTML (or whatever) script must be looking for something on my iPod > that it can't find - like the Wifi status. Given that the iPlayer only > works with three mobiles and 2 of those are the iPhone and iPod both > of which use Wifi and the chances of them having a Wifi connection to > a router which is connected via dialup seems bizarre in the extreme so > it's a very odd test on their behalf. As I can only access the site > via an Internet connection, I wonder what on earth the BBC are > actually testing!? > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > On 8 Nov 2008, at 13:00, Paul Owen wrote: > >> >> If just tried the BBC iPlayer on my wife's 1G iPod Touch with OS2.1 >> and it >> works as mentioned below. >> >> The only possible difference would appear to be ISP we are using >> (I'm with >> Nildram). >> >> Paul Owen >> >> <snip> "Every time I hear someone - especially if they are in government - say that big business will be the principal agent of change in moving us into a sustainable world, I know this is just bullshit" - Jonathon Porrit writing in Resurgence magazine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
