Brendan, Perhaps it's the RSS feeds for the podcasts? They are the only bit of bbc.co.uk that are slow in my experience.
On 03/12/2007, Brendan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's interesting, does anyone else find bbc.co.uk to be any slower than > other sites? I can't imagine why anyone in Durham (where this commenter said > they lived) would have a particularly bad experience with bbc.co.uk, even > JANET users should have fairly good bandwidth links and our servers > certainly aren't running at capacity on a normal day... > > While I know there's a lot we could do to speed up the experience of > bbc.co.uk users, we certainly don't think we're slower than the average > site. > > What does everyone else think? > > Brendan. > PS I'm not going to comment on the Glasgow Herald article! > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Brian Butterworth > *Sent:* 02 December 2007 13:34 > *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > *Subject:* [backstage] Future of BBC's iPlayer in doubt - Sunday Herald - > Kangaroo venture with ITV and C4 places question mark over standalone > service > > [A] truly odd comment... > > "hi > this seems like a great initative! Online and flexible is the way forward. > However I hope that BBC does NOT give up on fixing the bugs in its system. > It is the SLOWEST website i have ever used. plus the downlaod doesnt work > for me and there doesnt seem any way of getting support from the bbc to fix > this. I really hope they read this!" > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
