Is anyone else's running slooowwwwlllyyy?

Clive roadcone at gmx.com
Mon Jul 11 13:25:47 EDT 2011


On 11/07/2011 11:36, ZULU wrote:
> I am also having huge problems with Virginmedia speeds!
>
> My d/l of The Horizon Guide-Moon was apparently compromised by it taking
> too long.
>
> Now, I want to re-download it, but I cannot find the *.swfinfo* file to
> dump.
> There is no such file on this computer!!
>
> Now what?
>
> Rog
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Reilly"
> <getiplayer at denali.org.uk>
> To: <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Is anyone else's running slooowwwwlllyyy?
>
>
>> On 09/07/2011 16:31, Kevin Reilly wrote:
>>
>>> For what it's worth I had this problem a couple of mornings back and
>>> switched from my 20Mb Virgin connection to an HSPA connection on a 3G
>>> MiFi
>>> and the speed went UP marginally. It'll be interesting to hear if anyone
>>> with an ISP other than Virgin is seeing these slowdowns. As far as I can
>>> cell so far it's been 100% Virgin customers.
>>
>> It's just taken nearly 40 minutes to download the HD (flashvhigh) version
>> of Top Gear. Not only was the maximum throughput 3.2Mbps on a 20Mbps
>> connection, the data was flowing in a very unusual pattern of peaks and
>> troughs, almost a sawtooth with regular spikes.
>>
>> http://www.denali.org.uk/virginmedia/graph.jpg
>>
>> Something screwy is definitely going on with Virgin's connection to the
>> back end servers for the iPlayer.
>>
>> --
>> Kev
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Rog,

I have Horizon Moon so fear not - if you can't get it, I can provide. I 
don't think it went out as HD, but I have a respectable vhigh copy. 
Email me if you want a copy:

roadcone
at
uk2
dot
net

Clive



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