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Blinkbox OK very early, but (buffering) unus (buffering) able it 9am onwards


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Old 19-08-2012, 09:26
alcockell
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Hi folks,

Has anyone else seen this recently? I bought series 2 of GOT from Blinkbox at the beginning of the week - but this week, I;'ve found Blinkbox unusable except before 9am, and between 4-6.... but forget weekends... early and nothing else.

On Eclipse - and can't use my TV client most of the time as it's buffering like crazy...

I'm on Eclipse Internet - 9Mbps to my ISP.. and Iplayer behaves happily at HD speeds - due to KCOM having BBC edge servers in their network...

I also experienced problems a while back when listening to Premier Radio - both Blinkbox and Premier use Limelight - whose CDN terminates at LINX, not on the local ISP network unlike Google, Amazon and the Beeb...

Anyone else been noticing this? Where Tesco's service is effectively unwatchable on LG streaming clients aboard their TVs?

Then again - 2Mbps for an SD stream? Rather inefficient when the Beeb handle SD at 800Kbps and 1.5Mbps for HD...

What have others found?
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