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Re: Anyone else having problems with Spotify streaming tonight?

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Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35720554)

I can only hope NuttehButteh doesn't allow the actions of a few to taint the whole site.

Of course not.

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Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 35720562)

excuse me a second :sick: Why is everyone defending his childish behaviour.

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Re: Anyone else having problems with Spotify streaming tonight?

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Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 35720542)

I think your question was just as reasonable as many of those posted here. I am suprised by the replies you received .. I can see why you see a clique playing out here. Some of the replies were poor and unwarranted.

Please don't let this put you off, if you need help with problems when using the VM service do post again. I am sure there are a lot of people that will try and help.

As for Spotify over VM, my son has Spotify Premium and he never has issues streaming live and downloading for offline use. This is on a variety of devices: Android, Mac's, PC's etc.

Thanks for the reply.

It does seem to have cleared up now. I don't use the stations connection for my Ipad so I use my home connection to sync Spotify. Sometimes It has problems doing that. I have checked with Spotify on their forums, they say there is no issue although a few people have posted. As I said before I have tested this on another provider's line so I know it's not the music service.

From doing a Google search I did see this has been a problem before - tech is not perfect it's built by people and we are far from that, occasional problems are therefore excused but I wanted to ask anyway

I know I only pay £39 a month, But I don't set the prices and people still expect everything to work regardless of price. It's more than my other line but 3x faster so that's the added bonus. And I truly believe cable is the future of all the speed upgrades we will see in our lifetimes.

The studio I work in has a massive internet connection, (10Gbps I think) which is has to as all the music distribution is digital and also because we run webstreams and a TV channel as well as all the station's computers etc. So I wish I could use it!

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Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35720566)

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:eeek: :Yes:

Re: Anyone else having problems with Spotify streaming tonight?

True fibre optic is the way to go for connection speeds. That is what your studio's connection will be. Horrendously expensive for us commoners ATM but the future is bright.

1Gb is currently possible over Openreach copper but not available, there would have to be a fibre node on every telephone pole, so again horrendously expensive ATM.

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However it's still worth mentioning that even the likes of Google have been known to transfer large amounts of data by literally mailing a bunch of hard drives.

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I checked with the studio manager it's a 10gbps line but it's gifted from 4 of the advertisers in return for always free stuff, a fair compromise

We can only wish for this - However I do think VM will always be on top. I know my FTTC line is also the same sort of setup, Exchange, cab, pole me? and VM is headend,street cab, me? In any case my FTTC is dependant on about 700M in line length. The VM cab ( currrently open with black thick cables visable but protected by a wall/bush) is at the bottom of my steps.

With respect to everyone please don't launch into a full on tech explanation, I don't understand it so please just a yes or a no and a dumbed down version :)

Anyhoo I have now posted on the virgin forums because I have it again today. :(

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Originally Posted by NuttehButteh (Post 35720664)

In terms of basic connections, you're not far off - both Virgin and BT use Fibre up to a node of some kind, then copper afterwards. In terms of FTTC versus older ADSL, the node part is just futher along the line. The reason Virgin has an advantage is that their copper is shielded (coaxial) versus a regular copper phone line that isn't - so the length alone can be much greater on Virgin's. As far as I understand, not all of Virgin's cabs are actually the fibre end node and in fact can be daisy-chained from other cabs using the same coaxial cable.

After that, though, the two setups are pretty different. BT's system still has to account for the analogue phone line (hence why you've got filters and stuff to keep the two signals separate) and the actual protocols at this level are extremely different as well.

Your 10Gig studio connection will almost certainly be fibre straight to the building.

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Hi again,

It is. It comes into a white junction box on the outside at the back. There is a bank of cisco kit running it all in the racks in the comms room.. I can't take pictures due to the company's DPA but it's impressive.

As for my VM connection yes I do like they way there is no other line needed.

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BT's FTTP currently has a top speed of 300/30 but is only available in limited areas.

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Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35720168)

See above. Not very nice, not helpful.

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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35720177)

The rule of thumb should be if you have no useful advice don't post.

See above. The OP waived his right to be treated in that manner when he made the completely pointless, ragey, off-topic and "non-useful advice" posts in ten other people's threads.

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Originally Posted by Stop It (Post 35720207)

I don't blame the OP for being frustrated given the responses here. If you cannot offer direct help, either try to offer indirect help using relevant resources or do not post at all. Your analogy is pointless and irrelevant and your attitude of trying to justify your behaviour instead of just apologising is rather grating.

While the OP may well be entitled to be frustrated or unhappy he does not have the right to fill the forum up with spam due to his frustration. I have never in my ten years on Cableforum seen someone else be quite as disruptive and childish because they didn't get the answer they wanted.

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Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 35720562)

excuse me a second :sick: Why is everyone defending his childish behaviour. If you think a forum is pants because don't reply to your post then you just leave and don't come back, you don't need to go making childish posts in all the other threads and trying to blame for it and saying I instigated the whole thing is pathetic.

I think because the mods deleted the OP's childish rants so quickly that the majority of people here did not see them, and are acting like it never happened, which is forgivable if they didn't in fact ever see it happening. You and I however, did both see the tripe he posted in other people's threads before it was deleted so we know what actually happened. Fortunately, Google Cache has some evidence of it still, while most of it was deleted too quickly to have been seen even by the almighty Google

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His

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Originally Posted by NuttehButteh (Post 35719716)

Gees, the support on this forum is immense,legendary,laughable etc.

Rock on!

Post is the one that got under my skin. I have generally found the people here to be knowlegable, helpful and friendly, even if they are occasionally, a little on the sarcastic side.

He determined that he wasn't going to get any help/support after just two posts, from people who obviously didn't use spotify. The OP should have waited a little longer to see if anyone who does use spotify would assist.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35720739)

You seem to have missed the bit where the OP has copied and pasted that same rubbish into a dozen other people's completely unrelated topics spamming the whole forum. You think spamming some rant about ass-kissing and rimjobs into ten different people's threads is at all nice or helpful?

You think someone who posts this: https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/08/15.png and this: https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/08/16.png into numerous other people's threads for no reason whatsoever deserves anything other than the reply I gave? **** off.

Those are just two examples of the dozen or so that that have since been deleted, either out of shame or by the moderators.

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See above. The OP waived his right to be treated in that manner when he made the completely pointless, ragey, off-topic and "non-useful advice" posts in ten other people's threads.

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While the OP may well be entitled to be frustrated or unhappy he does not have the right to fill the forum up with spam due to his frustration. I have never in my ten years on Cableforum seen someone else be quite as disruptive and childish because they didn't get the answer they wanted.

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I think because the mods deleted the OP's childish rants so quickly that the majority of people here did not see them, and are acting like it never happened, which is forgivable if they didn't in fact ever see it happening. You and I however, did both see the tripe he posted in other people's threads before it was deleted so we know what actually happened. Fortunately, Google Cache has some evidence of it still, while most of it was deleted too quickly to have been seen even by the almighty Google

Well there are 2 idiots in the club, you need to start getting some pens ordered soon :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by NuttehButteh (Post 35720802)

I was offended first, everyone has the right to reply.

So when all the other comments have been made let that be the end of it.

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Well there are 2 idiots in the club, you need to start getting some pens ordered soon :rolleyes:

Not sure you are helping yourself here ..

Everyone is entitled to get frustrated with the (lack of useful) replies to a post but you seem to have gone over the top in some of your posts.

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OK Everyone had better start concentrating on the topic and stop the flaming and baiting.Let's not have to get the frack hammer out..

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One further off topic post deleted after a warning posted to keep to topic.