Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
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Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
21-01-2011 9:10 PM
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Its doing it now with d/l speeeds of nearly 6k
PT
Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
21-01-2011 11:23 PM
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Also there is a know bug with flash player 10.1 and higher with some laptops, which means you have to use an older version. I have to use 10.0.45.2 to have less issues.
Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
22-01-2011 7:54 AM
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I have seen iPlayer running on other computers and you seem to need something over around 1.5 Mbps download speed to avoid buffering pauses.
Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
22-01-2011 9:17 AM
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IPlayer HD content is more troubled with the problem but I might expect that.
Youtube, esp HD, to the main PC suffers as well at times but I put that down to youtube itself but maybe I have the problem.
I use a TG585V7
PT
Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
22-01-2011 10:00 AM
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At any given moment in the universe many things happen. Coincidence is a matter of how close these events are in space, time and relationship.
Opinions expressed in forum posts are those of the poster, others may have different views.
Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
22-01-2011 10:07 AM
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dick:quote
Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
22-01-2011 2:04 PM
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might be ok on a relatively quiet forum such as this but on busy ones there is a danger of another post appearing in the time it takes you to compose you own post and it subsequently not being clear who the response is directed at.
PT
Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
22-01-2011 2:16 PM
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Doing a full quote of the previous post isn't necessary and most people find it's not a problem.
What generally happens if a post intervenes they will add @walker23 (for example) at the beginning of their post.
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Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
23-01-2011 11:03 AM
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Incidentally, this forum is one of the easiest to use, clearest and best moderated of all that I have ever used.
@ Phyllis, since the iplayer diagnostics are supposed to diagnose suitability of a connection for actually using the iplayer I can only guess that you are suffering from intermittent slow-down - perhaps a few heavy users sharing the uplink from your exchange (probably not the correct technical term) but I suspect there's a 'bottleneck' somewhere upstream.
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Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
23-01-2011 11:20 AM
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All the problems went away when I got a new PC!
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Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
23-01-2011 12:31 PM
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I too think there must be some intermittent problem that stalls the stream for a while but its knowing how to find where it is. I suspect its unlikely to be the beeb and improbable that its some kind of intermittent exchange loading. I think it has to be something to do with PN, my router or the wireless/homeplug feed to the clients.
Cheers PT
Re: Why is Iplayer junk when my speed/ping tests are good?
23-01-2011 12:52 PM
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hello dear phyllis.
a great many d/l sites have their own d/l speeds and restrictions.
you could have a 500mb bb but it wont make any diff to the site.
As far as im aware iplayer resticts d/l speeds at certain times of the day and todate i have been unable to persuade the bbc to tell me what these restricted times are. They simply quote supply and demand. hope this helps
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23-01-2011 1:01 PM
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