Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

[Jim web]

Update on this as I did some checks today.

This morning I gipped a few R3/4/4x programs. The fetch rate varied over
the range from about x5 to x10 'real time replay'. Since I have a
connection that always tells me it is in the range from 14 to over 70 mbps
this seems a tad slow. As on an occasion last week.

I then tried watching some TV using FireFox and the standard Flash plugin.

I could watch SD OK (about 796 kpbs). But HD (2800 kpbs) just gave me lots
of the 'whirling arrow'. So I seem to have a > 14 mbps connection that
can't actually get 2.8 mbps without being paused about 90 percent of the
time.

This isn't really better than I used to get before I 'upgraded' to via
FTTC. Certainly much slower than a few weeks ago when I did earlier tests.

Can't tell at present, of course, if this is simply because I'm in a
distant country far, far away from the BBC boardroom and it all has to go
via a thin drinking straw at some point.

I'll do some more checks at some point later on.

Jim

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