Is anyone else's running slooowwwwlllyyy?

[Robin Guest]

On 13 July 2011 21:15, Clive <roadcone at gmx.com> wrote:
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> On 13/07/2011 21:08, Christopher Woods (CustomMade) wrote:
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 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:
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>> 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?
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> I can't help with that. But to provide a little bit more information - which does not lead anywhere - is that I just tried Falco using the PVR interface and it came down like a train. I immediately tried one episode of Vanity Fair and it failed and failed with the same set of error messages displayed on the PVR web page interface.
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> Does the use of a proxy avoid the problems if they are VM network issues or traffic management? After all, the traffic still uses VM for the first/last let of the journey.
>
> Clive

FWIW I'm on Virgin cable 50 meg, and not seeing any throttling at all.

Just tried Afternoon Play: Torchwood pt 1 and speed peaked at
44119.270 kB / 2700.02 sec (99.9%) (it basically finished while the
speed was still climbing).

Tried Horizon - Moon and speed peaked at 345861.904 kB / 3541.12 sec
(99.9%) (was still climbing when it finished too).

So it's not Virgin cable per-se, or perhaps they're only throttling
the cheaper subscriptions?

Am happy to provide some more stats/tests, if you can tell me what to look at.

Cheers, Robs