Re: Slow speed
Unfortunately the problem certainly doesn't lie with my ISP. I say unfortunately, because it's relatively easy to change ISP. But my quoted speeds are 100Mbps/40Mbps, and on some sites I get my 10Mbps per second. With get_iplayer I have in the past seen speeds up to perhaps 8 Mb/s, but nowadays it's far lower. Right now I'm getting 1.1 Mb/s, and am poised to cancel the download as soon as I get an "Unexpected size" error. Which has just occurred, not 2 minutes after I wrote the previous sentence. Regards, Paul Thornett On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 00:14, Paul Thornett wrote: > > It seems to me that downloads have become very slow, often not > completing. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? > > Regards, > > Paul Thornett ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Slow speed
On 19/02/2020 11:21 am, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > RS wrote: >> Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to >> your ISP, or find a better ISP. > I'd have thought it's the CDN choice that's being made rather than ISP. > For example, having the line ‘exclude-supplier bidi’ in my > ~/.get_iplayer/options fixed a problem for me a few months back. > The OP needs to investigate what CDN/supplier is being used when he's > having problems. Ditto here. I used to have fairly frequent problems with the "Unexpected size for file segment" error, and downloads eventually failing, but since I added 'exclude-supplier bidi' to my options file, I have not had those errors, and the downloads are noticeably faster. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Slow speed
Hi, RS wrote: > Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to > your ISP, or find a better ISP. I'd have thought it's the CDN choice that's being made rather than ISP. For example, having the line ‘exclude-supplier bidi’ in my ~/.get_iplayer/options fixed a problem for me a few months back. The OP needs to investigate what CDN/supplier is being used when he's having problems. -- Cheers, Ralph. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Slow speed
On 18/02/2020 05:52, Paul Thornett wrote: And the way I have got to 87.6% is by stopping the transfer every 10% and doing a robocopy to a separate folder. Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to your ISP, or find a better ISP. Is there anywhere near you with a decent 4G signal? Unlimited 4G is becoming viable. In my experience the best error recovery is with HVF modes, so choose HVF rather than DVF. If you are having problems, avoid 50fps modes, so choose hvfxsd rather than hvfsd. I am finding Limelight is now the fastest and most reliable CDN. In my case I usually get Limelight for TV programmes with a suffix 2, but you need to check. In summary, try --tvmode=hvfxsd2 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
