ISP Connect Trial - 21CN trial

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Quote from: itsme

Have you upgraded to iPlayer Desktop? There have been a lot of posting on the iPlayer forums that the downloading is a lot slower with the Desktop version.

I'm on iPlayer Desktop and it's not its fault - I've switched back to RIN and the two programs I'm downloading are coming down so fast that it's making these forums stutter like crazy.
I'm also getting nearly as fast on the normal Plusnet connection.
There's definitely something wrong with either 21CN or THN-AG2
Don't forget I'm on PAYG (equivalent of PRO) so all traffic should be gold or better.

[#2]

Quote from: ASBO

http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,76296.0.html been like it for 3 days now jelv.

I was reading that thread when you posted - I'm sure it's the same problem.
I'm not a Wireshark addict so I haven't checked what the traffic is classed at, but unless someone has totally screwed up the configuration it shouldn't make any difference - I'm on PAYG so all my traffic should be gold or better.

Quote from: ASBO

how come you can change back to the centrals on connect

There's no exchange wiring change for IPStream Connect - it's all down to routing controlled by the radius servers. All I do is change the login.
username@plusdsl.net - normal centrals
username@plusdsl2.net - RIN
username@plus11.net - IPStream Connect

[#3]

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Don't forget I'm on PAYG (equivalent of PRO) so all traffic should be gold or better.

does that mean gold plated 0x60 and gold 0x80.
or is PAYG just 0x80

[#4]

adsl2+ uses the standard @plusdsl.net login
i wish i could switch back an forth

[#5]

I'm downloading  currenly with iPlayer at 2.5mbps with a 3mbps profile, ADSL2+ is not lighting speeds for me. So not sure that it's a 21CN problem. Did you read http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbiplayer/F8035762?thread=6505792

[#6]

If when I switch to the RIN connection I'm getting a 1hour program (653MB) downloaded in around 15 minutes it's got to be something wrong with the Plusnet side!

[#7]

glad the connect guys are on board now.
i can get to sleep now safe in knowledge that you guys are finding and pointing problems out too
night jelv, fancy lending me one of your 2 gd connections

[#8]

A file that size with my connection speed I'm looking at 35 minutes so perhaps that the reason that I don't see the problem.

[#9]

BBC Speedtest results I've just obtained.
Wish I'd done this before midnight when the speed was really slow non-existent.
Not sure about the RIN result as I sync at 8192!

[#10]

For reference here is a BBC iPlayer speedtest on IPStream Connect run a few minutes ago.
Speeds may be slightly down as I have VPN connected and a RDP session open.

[#11]

mine on adsl2+ 21cn just now.
streaming 1 is classed as 0x60 gold plated using an ip of 88.221.26.173
i did about 6 tests and 2 of them where all 0x80's . so the same ip is not used every time. but it was only streaming 1 that was classed as 0x60 every time.
Any way dave's updated my ticket on this

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I'm currently looking into this and see whether we can fish out the remaining iPlayer traffic from the Akamai and Limelight network ranges, we may have another sig we can test soon so hopefully this will detect the rest.

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So they will put in place a new signature that will make sure that all iPlayer streaming is 0x80.
Err... Exactly how will that help when the speed of my 0x80 (PAYG Gold) traffic was dire last night?
I think it's a far more fundamental problem than whether it is Gold or Gold Plated.

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theres most likely somthing bigger going on with the connect product because my overall thoughput speed on my now 3000kbps profile is allways maxed even when iplayer is playing up.
all i know is wbc and seems connect as well now are not happy bunnys at all between midnight-1am
i will jump out of this thread now and leave it to you connect guys as there's maybe somthing diffrent going on with connect product
gd luck with it jelv and least you have 2 other connections to fall back on

[#14]

Quote from: ASBO

gd luck with it jelv and least you have 2 other connections to fall back on

Not quite as simple as that.
I know the normal Plusnet connection does not perform as well as RIN. However see http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,75842.0.html
I was hoping that IPStream Connect would step in to the void left by RIN's ending.

[#15]

Jelv,
We've had some problems recently where we've seeing packet loss on THN-AG2 before we even hit capacity, which Dave has been investigating with BT.