Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread artisticforge .
hello perhaps, Menwith Hill did not find your traffic interesting enough. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: On 18/11/2014 06:18, TQ wrote: On 18 November 2014 at 00:05 Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: Is anyone else experiencing

Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:27:36 +, Alan Milewczyk wrote: No problems here at 06h15 - seems pretty much what I'm used to at this time of the morning. iPlayer is one of the few sites that can fully saturate our meagre 5 Mbps ADSL connection anytime of day or night. No evening slow downs

Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: iPlayer is one of the few sites that can fully saturate our meagre 5 Mbps ADSL connection anytime of day or night. No evening slow downs here... OTOH, I've hardly ever seen radio or TV data arrive at more than about 11 Mbps, despite having a connection

Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread CJB
The only slowness I have found is at the very start - when connections are being established. Indeed it has taken more than 5 minutes to start the PVM List running. However when it finally makes its connections then radio downloads as fast as ever. And now that I've switched off the option to

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Simon Morgan
-Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer Sent: 18 November 2014 13:47 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Slow radio downloads Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote:

OT Slow radio downloads was Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread artisticforge .
hello to get 60Mbps you have either fibre or coax. not going to get 60mbps over plain old copper twisted pair. I have a microwave link and I am happy with the 6Mbps . I do not stream video. no nexflix. no youtube. ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: OT Slow radio downloads was Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:47:26 -0600, artisticforge . wrote: to get 60Mbps you have either fibre or coax. not going to get 60mbps over plain old copper twisted pair. er VDSL is delivered over an ordinary copper pair, it's only Fibre to the cabinet. VDSL2 up to 76 Mbps ought to deliver 60 Mbps

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 18/11/2014 15:29, Simon Morgan wrote: -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer Sent: 18 November 2014 13:47 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Slow radio downloads Dave Liquorice

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread George Eycott
5 Mbps, 11 Mbps, 60 Mbps - these are numbers I just don't recognise -:( Here in rural Pembrokeshire, West Wales, I consider myself lucky if I get the nominal 2Mbps that BT rate the line (upload about 250Kbps!!). Fortunately Get_iPlayer trundles along quite happily and next morning I usually

Caches wont refresh ...

2014-11-18 Thread CJB
All in triplicate!!! The t.v. indexes are listed as == snip == INFO: Getting tv Index Feeds (this may take a few minutes) WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - a-z WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - a-z WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:46:48 -, George Eycott wrote: 5 Mbps, 11 Mbps, 60 Mbps - these are numbers I just don't recognise -:( Here in rural Pembrokeshire, West Wales, I consider myself lucky if I get the nominal 2Mbps that BT rate the line Luxury. I'm lucky, get a reliable sync speed

Re: OT Slow radio downloads was Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 18 Nov 2014 at 17:12, Dave Liquorice Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: Don't fall BT's marketing of fibre optic broadband it's not. If it was they'd be offering 100 Mbps symmetrical as a basic service with options up to 1 Gbps or higher. To defend BT/Sky/TalkTalk etc, it is the

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 18 Nov 2014 at 18:46, George Eycott George Eycott geo...@eycott.co.uk wrote: 2Mb/s download, yep we get that OK until the schoolbus pulls up in the village in the afternoon then 10 minutes later everything slows to a crawl. We are lucky to get 100Kb/s upload speed at any time, often it

Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 18 Nov 2014 at 15:29, CJB CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com wrote: However I have noticed that t.v. is painfully slow - I guess due to the huge files for the default of HD. I always forget to ask for the non-HD files. Change the recording mode in the Web PVR interface to default, click apply then

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:20:31 -, Peter S Kirk wrote: Do you have a strong signal from any of the mobile networks? Plenty of 3G/4G unlimited packages available, ... Is that using an english definition of the word unlimited or a marketing speak definition? That is unlimited within the

Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread CJB
Thank you for that tip. I thought 'best' was the default!!! However I have checked my settings and I am on 'default' aka standard. A typical 30 minute programme takes about 15 mins to download!! Sort of one hash per minute or less. Chris B. On 18/11/2014, Peter S Kirk peter.k...@isauk.biz wrote:

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Marshall Cleave
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:20:31 -, Peter S Kirk wrote: Do you have a strong signal from any of the mobile networks? Plenty of 3G/4G unlimited packages available, ... Is that using an english definition of the word unlimited or a marketing speak definition? That is unlimited within the limits

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread George Eycott
Who is your ISP? BT :-) They have admitted the exchange is in congestion. And the good news is that a new housing estate is being built in the village so that is going to help Not. ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Nick
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:36:39 + Marshall Cleave marsh...@brooklandsand.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:20:31 -, Peter S Kirk wrote: Do you have a strong signal from any of the mobile networks? Plenty of 3G/4G unlimited packages available, ... Is that using an english

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread SquarePenguin
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:36:39 + Marshall Cleave marsh...@brooklandsand.co.uk wrote: Three do the all-in-one 15 tariff on pay as you go. £15 gets unlimited internet for 30 days, I've tried to hit a cap but haven't found one yet :) A note on that, this is an Add-On (just in case you go

Re: Caches wont refresh ...

2014-11-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com wrote: All in triplicate!!! The t.v. indexes are listed as == snip == INFO: Getting tv Index Feeds (this may take a few minutes) WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - a-z ... Both tv and radio caches are fine here (around 11pm on the 18th).

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: In that case, I'd better not mention the 156Mbps downloads and 11.6Mbps uploads I get from Virgin here in Greater Manchester. My 60 Mbps connection is also a Virgin one; what actual download speeds of BBC radio tv programmes using get_iplayer do you

Re: Caches wont refresh ...

2014-11-18 Thread CJB
Thanks for the response. Huh - it was due to an intermittent wifi connection - it kept disconnecting and reconnecting. Even a reset of the server didn't work. Seems that the server might have been getting hacked. Chris B. On 18/11/2014, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Budgie
On 18/11/14 21:36, George Eycott wrote: Who is your ISP? BT :-) They have admitted the exchange is in congestion. And the good news is that a new housing estate is being built in the village so that is going to help Not You may be too pessimistic. If I were in your situation I would