Is anyone else's running slooowwwwlllyyy?

[Christopher Woods (CustomMade)]

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> From: get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org 
> [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Clive
> Sent: 13 July 2011 20:29
> To: get_iplayer at 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?