Greetings all! I have just been trying to "Listen Again" to File on Four (BBC Radio 4, 8pm Tuesday 2 March):
I got the message "Insufficient bandwidth to play this programme, click here to find out more"
So I did that, and the Beeb put me through a series of speed tests, with results:
1. Your connection 3028 kbps Your available bandwidth is 3028kbps. 2. TV - HD 3500 Uses 115% of your available bandwidth.kbps [with "Red Cross"] 3. TV 1500 kbps Uses 49% of your available bandwidth. [with "Green Tick"] 4. TV 800 kbps Uses 26% of your available bandwidth. [with "Green Tick"] 5. Radio 128 kbps Uses 4% of your available bandwidth. [with "Green Tick"]
And this was on "Low Bandwidth version", tried after "Normal Bandwidth" had hung.
So, on the face of it, it looks as though the Beeb are saying I can't listen to a Radio programme (for which I have 25 times the required bandwidth) because I don't have enough bandwidth for HD TV!!!
Any comments? (And, by the way, were shall we be after the Beeb have halved their website?)
Ted.
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Judging by the messageboard this problem seems to affect those listening abroad so I'd report it. Sadly (why do they do this??) if you need to follow up your q
On 4 March 2010 11:41, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
Greetings all! I have just been trying to "Listen Again" to File on Four (BBC Radio 4, 8pm Tuesday 2 March):
I got the message "Insufficient bandwidth to play this programme, click here to find out more"
So I did that, and the Beeb put me through a series of speed tests, with results:
- Your connection 3028 kbps
Your available bandwidth is 3028kbps. 2. TV - HD 3500 Uses 115% of your available bandwidth.kbps [with "Red Cross"] 3. TV 1500 kbps Uses 49% of your available bandwidth. [with "Green Tick"] 4. TV 800 kbps Uses 26% of your available bandwidth. [with "Green Tick"] 5. Radio 128 kbps Uses 4% of your available bandwidth. [with "Green Tick"]
And this was on "Low Bandwidth version", tried after "Normal Bandwidth" had hung.
So, on the face of it, it looks as though the Beeb are saying I can't listen to a Radio programme (for which I have 25 times the required bandwidth) because I don't have enough bandwidth for HD TV!!!
Any comments? (And, by the way, were shall we be after the Beeb have halved their website?)
Ted.
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Sorry about that. I cut myself off before I finished and posted it before I knew I had. @'.'@ If that reply is any use, hoorah. They don't have a direct email address is the gist of that last sentence.
Bev.
On 4 March 2010 17:26, Bev Nicolson lumos60@googlemail.com wrote:
Judging by the messageboard this problem seems to affect those listening abroad so I'd report it. Sadly (why do they do this??) if you need to follow up your q
Thanks, Bev! As it happens, it worked this evening when I got back home. I restarted the browser, went back to the web-page, and it ran (on the "Normal bandwith" version, too!).
Maybe there was congestion when I tried it this morning.
It's quite an interesting programme, too, for us folks ("NHS IT deal 'stitch up' claims"). If you haven't already heard it, the programme's web page is at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r0vxg
and the iPlayer link is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00r0vxg
Ted.
On 04-Mar-10 17:30:32, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Sorry about that. I cut myself off before I finished and posted it before I knew I had. @'.'@ If that reply is any use, hoorah. They don't have a direct email address is the gist of that last sentence.
Bev.
On 4 March 2010 17:26, Bev Nicolson lumos60@googlemail.com wrote:
Judging by the messageboard this problem seems to affect those listening abroad so I'd report it. Sadly (why do they do this??) if you need to follow up your q
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