Cable Forum - View Single Post - Looks like they are packetshaping BBC iPlayer too.

Milambar · 09-11-2010, 02:04

First minute was great, coming in at the full speed, after which it ramped down to a really atrocious crawl, taking 6hrs to download the rest of the program.

Program was Spooks - Series 9 Episode 8.
Time of start of download: 2am.
Time of end of download: Just after 8am. (exaggeration, real finish time was 3:18am)
Protocol: Flash streaming (rtmp).

Average speed was 186.55kb/s

Web browsing unaffected @ 3am. Speedtest.net reports 19.9mb also at 3am. Only the RTMP stream was affected.

The same RTMP stream on a 3G dongle on my laptop, same program, same time, (as a comparison) took a mere 8 minutes, ruling out problems at the BBC end.

I really don't find the shaping of BBC iPlayer to be acceptable (not you guys problem though)

09-11-2010, 02:04	#1
Milambar Inactive Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 954	Looks like they are packetshaping BBC iPlayer too. First minute was great, coming in at the full speed, after which it ramped down to a really atrocious crawl, taking 6hrs to download the rest of the program. Program was Spooks - Series 9 Episode 8. Time of start of download: 2am. Time of end of download: Just after 8am. (exaggeration, real finish time was 3:18am) Protocol: Flash streaming (rtmp). Average speed was 186.55kb/s Web browsing unaffected @ 3am. Speedtest.net reports 19.9mb also at 3am. Only the RTMP stream was affected. The same RTMP stream on a 3G dongle on my laptop, same program, same time, (as a comparison) took a mere 8 minutes, ruling out problems at the BBC end. I really don't find the shaping of BBC iPlayer to be acceptable (not you guys problem though)