Ah, that explains why my GETV stats are blown out of the water. I get about 1000 MS BITS requests for every site. Also, browser type 'WXHttp' reports a high number as well, something like 200 for every site.
Seems like this would be an easy fix on the blip.tv backend to account for these patterns, but I often don't know what I'm talking about. -eddie On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:12:30PM -0500, Andr? Sala wrote: > Andr? here, from TVTonic, the video aggregator featured in Windows > Media Center's Online Spotlight. I have contacted many of you about > having listed your feeds in our directory. The TVTonic client uses > Microsoft BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) to download > video content. Videobloggers seeing traces of BITS in their stats > could possibly be seeing TVTonic users pulling their videos, however > they could also be coming from other RSS clients, such as the RSS > reader built in to IE7 which uses BITS. > > See http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2006/02/02/522642.aspx > > BITS is the technology that Microsoft uses to deliver Windows > Automatic Updates. As Markus said, it is a component designed to > control and throttle background downloads as not to make any large > resource hit on a user's computer. > > But the problem, it seems, with BITS is that it makes a substantial > number of webserver requests. If you look at your server log you > might think that BITS is hammering your bandwidth because of the high > number of requests. This is because it is making requests to the > server for small chunks of a file rather than one request for the > whole file itself. Once it has collected all of the bits of a file, > it marks it as being finished and makes the file available to the > user. > > We have actually started to see several servers block requests from > the BITS useragent. Revision3's servers (Diggnation & Systm), as well > as Channel Frederator, to name a few. Recently we've started to see > some strange messages get returned from libsyn. FYI ? we are > contacting the blip developers to see if there is a way we can work > together to ensure their users are receiving less confusing stats. > I'll keep everyone posted. > > I hope that clarifies this BITS issue for many of you. Please feel > free to contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have more questions. > > Sincerely, > > Andr? Sala > TVTonic Team > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
