On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 04:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Sven Olaf Kamphuis <s...@cb3rob.net> wrote:
> > I've had a recent experience of this. Some IPv6 CPE I was > > testing had a fault where it dropped out and recovered every 2 minutes > > - a transient network fault. I was watching a youtube video over IPv6. > > Because of the amount of video buffering that took place, and because > > the same IPv6 prefixes were assigned to the connection once it > > recovered, the youtube video kept playing. That was a great end-user > > experience and it was somewhat addictive to watch the PPP light > > go off and come back on while the video kept playing faultlessly. > > thats primarily due to "partial http downloads" aka http status 206 rather > than 202 where you can just specify at which offset in the file you want > the httpd to start reading the file to you, most flash movie players, > however, don't support this. connection lost = movie has to be fully > reloaded. There's a whole lot of speculation and no evidence in that statement ... as it said, it was faultless, so I very strongly doubt there was any restarting the stream.
