Comments on: Online Olympic Coverage - More and More turn to the BBC iPlayer

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:14:31 +0000

James Reynolds. Get yourself a lowered contention connection, don't share yours with the standard 1:50 houses, get 1:10, there is a much more consistent high level of service

By: James Reynolds

James Reynolds — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:58:00 +0000

Thank Christ for that, the games are coming to an end! We can finally have some network bandwidth back!

BBC I Player! grrr!

People should get a TV! and allow the Internet to be used for what it was designed for!

My 6.5Mbs link has been down to about 2 recently!

By: iPlayer Goes for Higher Bitrates, Olympic Gold and Home Theaters? « NewTeeVee

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:57:17 +0000

[...] seen, but it’s clear that demand for the iPlayer is continuing to grow strong. UK ISP Plusnet saw its iPlayer traffic numbers double during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and triple during select [...]

By: Dave Tomlinson

Dave Tomlinson — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:56:04 +0000

Hi Paul,

Our signature picks up embedded streaming content on the BBC site as iPlayer traffic, simple reason is that the BBC use the same technology for both the main iPlayer streaming application and the embedded content so it just picks them both up the same.

By: Plusnet in the news, 22nd August | Community Site News

Plusnet in the news, 22nd August | Community Site News — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:45:20 +0000

[...] Olympic fever Plusnet’s Dave Tomlinson blogged about the huge demand for Olympic coverage online. This is a hot subject and it was covered by lots [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:57:19 +0000

Interesting post. Does your definition of iPlayer traffic also include embedded streaming content from within a page on the BBC site? I would say that most people I've seen watching the Olympics have not being using the dedicated iPlayer, but have been watching the embedded content from the new improved streaming on the Beeb's main sites.

By: Samknows Broadband - » BBC iPlayer changes set to increase the pressure on ISPs

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:23:13 +0000

[...] have reported a doubling of iPlayer traffic over their network, this appears largely due to people watching the Olympics at work. With iPlayer [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:49:32 +0000

Following on from Be3G's post - people could also be using it more because of the interface improvements made by BBC. I use the streaming service exclusively and some of the new features they've added ('recently watched' and the radio streaming within the player) make it more useful than before.

By: Be3G

Be3G — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:24:26 +0000

The funny thing is, I've been using the iPlayer a lot more during the past couple of weeks than before, but not to watch the Olympics - I've just generally found there're a couple more things on TV these days that I want to keep tabs on.