On 13/07/2011 21:08, Christopher Woods (CustomMade) wrote:
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From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org
[mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Clive
Sent: 13 July 2011 20:29
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Is anyone else's running slooowwwwlllyyy?
It seems to have settled down to totally unusable. Either the
connection establishes very slowly and invariably times out
or it establishes very quickly and at random points in the
download either re-starts itself with the error messages:
What the rest of us need to see is some comparative analysis of transfers
done over your connection direct, and some downloads done through a
(reliable, fast) proxy server using a VPN or SSH tunnel. If someone geeky
fancies doing some testing but is short of a good bandwidthed UK server to
route through for testing, I can give them a lend of my machine in
Maidstone. (contact me off-list if you want to organise.)
The speed test / results should then help narrow down the root cause -
whether it's poor routing, congestion in your area, obvious traffic shaping
or whether it's being done by the Beeb based on the behaviour of get_iplayer
itself. (or perhaps all four...?)
To confirm, everyone suffering is on Virgin Media cable?
I can't help with that. But to provide a little bit more information -
which does not lead anywhere - is that I just tried Falco using the PVR
interface and it came down like a train. I immediately tried one episode
of Vanity Fair and it failed and failed with the same set of error
messages displayed on the PVR web page interface.
Does the use of a proxy avoid the problems if they are VM network issues
or traffic management? After all, the traffic still uses VM for the
first/last let of the journey.
Clive
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