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| Author: | JJW009 [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | iPlayer |
I think my ISP is throttling streaming video to 0bps, but I thought I'd ask here. Anyone else having trouble with iPlayer? Here's my result from the BBC diagnostic page:  I'm with F2S, part of Pipex, part of Tiscali, now Car Phone Warehouse. I have their top unlimited package. |
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| Author: | Nick [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer |
Everything has been working fine here, and I'm with plus.net |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:00 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer | |||||||||
Thanks for the reply. I think plus.net are BT, so I'm really wishing I hadn't changed over. When my old ISP vanished on me, Tiscali fed me a load of lies and succeeded in conning me into jumping ship 
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer |
I'm with BT and iPlayer and YouTube are all but unusable between 5pm and midnight, and most of the day on Saturday & Sunday. |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:11 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer | |||||||||
LOL, maybe I wouldn't have been any better staying with Mailbox (we don't know what we're doing) Networks / 186K (we didn't pay Tiscali and got cut off) broadband when they went over to BT then  Nick - are you LLU? I think that makes a massive difference. |
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| Author: | Nick [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer |
plus.net are part of BT, but we really don't suffer with any slow downs from 5-12. Then again, I'm on a different exchange so there are too many variables. I wouldn't have the foggiest idea about whether we're LLU or not JJ, but I suspect not - it's a pretty small exchange. Is there any way I can find out? |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer |
I'm at the end of the tether with the shoddy service. I wrote a letter to BT asking them if they seriously expect me to pay for such a (lack of) service. I have yet to get my reply. |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:54 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer | |||||||||
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/search.php |
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| Author: | Nick [ Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer |
I'm not an LLU customer, according to that website only Orange have their kit in my local exchange. |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:03 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer | |||||||||
Plusnet is actually owned by BT (according to wiki), but the fact your exchange is LLU means that everyone else is on a different back-bone so the contention is massively reduced. It's now 1am, and my Internets are fast! I just torrented 350MB in 2 minutes while watching a streaming preview. If I could just find a job that meant I was at work from 5pm - 1am then it would be fine 
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| Author: | Nick [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer |
I've got one! Actually that's a lie, but I did have one. Was working in a bar so I would get home anywhere between 1-4am depending on day of the week and my shift. 
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:36 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer | |||||||||
 , watch out folks, there's a licensed victualler about!
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer |
As a point of interest are you guys, (who are having problems) watching streamed video via iPlayer or downloading and watching the locally saved version? |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:15 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer | ||||||||||||||||||
Streaming, as per my OP:
I'll try the download thing when there's a Linux version. |
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| Author: | veato [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: iPlayer |
I just tried the test. I'm on BT. Download Speed 6858 Streaming Speed (1) 5152 Streaming Speed (2) 5386 Streaming Speed (3) 4946 02/07/2009 21:20 |
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