It seems that all the websites are up and running but much of the content still is not. I've been trying to listen to a few things with the on demand radio page and a lot of stuff is not available. I wonder if they will tell us what caused the outage?
And people seriously want broadcasting to go from the terrestrial (free-view) to internet only ? The internet should never be looked upon as a replacement for over the air broadcasts, because it isn't reliable enough, plus the likes of the over paid BBC don't keep their licence fee payers informed/updated and take an age to fix anything
And people seriously want broadcasting to go from the terrestrial (free-view) to internet only ? The internet should never be looked upon as a replacement for over the air broadcasts, because it isn't reliable enough, plus the likes of the over paid BBC don't keep their licence fee payers informed/updated and take an age to fix anything
Post 14 before the anti licence brigade wade into a BBC thread. Tut tut guys, must try harder.
And people seriously want broadcasting to go from the terrestrial (free-view) to internet only ? The internet should never be looked upon as a replacement for over the air broadcasts, because it isn't reliable enough, plus the likes of the over paid BBC don't keep their licence fee payers informed/updated and take an age to fix anything
There's a world of difference between maintaining mission critical stuff like linear broadcast TV, and iPlayer, which (I'd speculate) is far lower down on the list as far as the BBC's priorities and budgets are concerned. If DVB-T/S/DAB/FM crapped out then it'd be serious business (as FM spectacularly did a few years ago, because the BBC's sub-sub-sub-sub-sub contractor had a "diverse routed network" where two supposedly diverse bits passed through the same building, whose air-con failed and so did the equipment housed within). To my knowledge this hasn't really happened apart from the FM failure. Sounds like the BBC and its contractors know what they're doing, eh?
If we ever got to the point where most TV watching occured over the internet, you can bet that a lot more money would be poured into it, and therefore there'd be a lot more redundancy. Losing iPlayer for a few hours isn't critical stuff.
Out of interest do you have any experience in maintaining large broadcast and IP networks and the services that run over them? Because I'd bet that the people who are trying to fix the problem are more qualified than you are to work out if it's taking too long.
It came back on for about 10 minutes in the last 15 minutes but seems to have gone back down again!
I think the BBC have a number of issues in their technical sections, the news station seems to get a fair bit of technical trouble too though it hasn't been as bad in the last few months.
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Obviously a serious technical glitch.
Que the BBC bashing....
Anything can have a glitch, but maybe the Beeb should have a service status page or something to actually acknowledge the problem.
http://downdetector.co.uk/problems/iplayer
But it may just be one if the CDNs loosing peering.
Richard Cooper did last time it all failed .. Two years ago with Traffic manager failures !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/bbcinternet/2012/07/website_outage_june_11_2012.html
Please try again later."
Down again!
Post 14 before the anti licence brigade wade into a BBC thread. Tut tut guys, must try harder.
There's a world of difference between maintaining mission critical stuff like linear broadcast TV, and iPlayer, which (I'd speculate) is far lower down on the list as far as the BBC's priorities and budgets are concerned. If DVB-T/S/DAB/FM crapped out then it'd be serious business (as FM spectacularly did a few years ago, because the BBC's sub-sub-sub-sub-sub contractor had a "diverse routed network" where two supposedly diverse bits passed through the same building, whose air-con failed and so did the equipment housed within). To my knowledge this hasn't really happened apart from the FM failure. Sounds like the BBC and its contractors know what they're doing, eh?
If we ever got to the point where most TV watching occured over the internet, you can bet that a lot more money would be poured into it, and therefore there'd be a lot more redundancy. Losing iPlayer for a few hours isn't critical stuff.
Out of interest do you have any experience in maintaining large broadcast and IP networks and the services that run over them? Because I'd bet that the people who are trying to fix the problem are more qualified than you are to work out if it's taking too long.
Reason number 9871818 to get rid of the license fee. Don't want response from fanyboys/employees so don't bother.
There isn't one this week, so maybe deadline will extend
If you don't want a response to your postings then perhaps a forum isn't the place for you.:D
It's working for me by the way. Hurrah to the licence fee,
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, I'm just interested to see if you actually have 9871817 other reasons!
I think the BBC have a number of issues in their technical sections, the news station seems to get a fair bit of technical trouble too though it hasn't been as bad in the last few months.
BBC brief statement up earlier about the website and iPlayer problems
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28388585
They also had problems at BBC Cumbria this morning
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/bbc-radio-cumbria-disrupted-by-faulty-fire-alarm-1.1149483
All seems to be working fine.
So it'll work for some people, then possibly stop working, start again...and so on.