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  • Legs Akimbo
    Grand Poobah
    • Apr 2005
    • 2809
    #1

    BigPond Video is a joke

    ...so I sat down tonight to watch the game on the AFL.com website. Duly logged in and went to the BigPond video site.

    Proceeded to watch 11 seconds of the match before enduring about 45 seconds of buffering. Endured this for about 4 cycles before it came to a screaming halt altogether.

    I have a broadband connection, admitedly only 512kbps, but surely sufficient for the job? Why is it that I can watch youtube content quite happily without this level of buffering?

    I can only think it is a ploy by BigPond to get people to upgrade their connection speed (too bad if you live in a country area where there is no ADSL 2 +). But then again, maybe I am giving them too much credit for craftiness. Maybe they are just clumsy incompetent fools who have no clue how to build a website and distribute video content.

    Anyway, does anyone know how to get it to work?
    He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.
    Tags: bigpond, joke, Swans, sydney, video
    • Zlatorog
      Senior Player
      • Jan 2006
      • 1748
      #2
      First, make sure that you don't share your connection with anybody else.
      Second, go far the lower quality video that would chew let's say 128 kbps bandwidth instead of going for better that uses 360+ since you have only 512 kbps bandwidth.

      If you're using WMP, change the speed in Options, where you can specify your Internet speed. That might help.

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        • Legs Akimbo
          Grand Poobah
          • Apr 2005
          • 2809
          #3
          Thanks...made it to 4:37s before it crashed this time (appreciate the effort though).

          I blame demetriou for being knob.
          He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

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            • satchmopugdog
              Bandicoots ears
              • Apr 2004
              • 3691
              #4
              I just tried to watch the best marks of the NAB cup and it buffered every 3 seconds. I've never had that happen like that before. Tres Annoying.
              "The Dog days are over, The Dog days are gone" Florence and the Machine

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                • dread and might
                  Back, strapped and intact
                  • Apr 2004
                  • 949
                  #5
                  Had a similar issue with it on super dooper telstra broadband whilst living in melbourne.

                  I had already resigned myself to the fact of having to watch it at my brother's house as Telstra websites do not run propely on enlightened machines.
                  When his super PC (also with super telstra broadband) exhibited the behaviour described we then went to the extreme of going to an internet cafe in town in the dead of night having studiously avoided the result. This cafe was a korean run gaming freak type of a den (suffice to say they would have had some serious CPU and server power.)

                  No luck.

                  My subsequent email which involved threatening to cancel my account if there was no decent response, was met with the predictable blah blah, we have been unable to replicate your problem using your login details etc....

                  I had already complained of their non mac compatibility on several occasions only to be told "we believe that providing content which is viewable by the MAJORITY of internet users adequately covers blah blah."

                  Unbelievable.




                  I cancelled my account about a week later.
                  I wish my weed was EMO so it would cut itself

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                    • Nico
                      Veterans List
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 11385
                      #6
                      You can watch Sky Racing with about a 10 second delay in full gallop without a hitch.

                      Suspect the latter comment regarding competency is close to the mark. No wonder their share price rarely has got to $5. Probably the most hyped share on the market and correspondingly poor performing company. The mums and dads of Oz got gipped by little Johnny on that one.
                      http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                        • bedford
                          forward coach
                          • Nov 2007
                          • 362
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Nico
                          You can watch Sky Racing with about a 10 second delay in full gallop without a hitch.

                          Suspect the latter comment regarding competency is close to the mark. No wonder their share price rarely has got to $5. Probably the most hyped share on the market and correspondingly poor performing company. The mums and dads of Oz got gipped by little Johnny on that one.
                          don't mention little johnny on here or somebody will get upset

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                            • Cher
                              Born into the team
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 1474
                              #8
                              I watch live video streaming often from Sprintcarworld, on my 4 yr old MAC with no buffering ever. I have 512 now but used to do it with 256.
                              Some of the speedways have a rather amateur set up and the picture might not be clear but it comes through with no problems.
                              I'm with Westnet!

                              So the answer is Big Pond is @@@@!!!! and The AFL website is @@@@!!!
                              But we all know that, don't we??
                              CHER - Who has two types of blood cells "RED ones and WHITE ones"

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                                • Cheer Squad mbr
                                  In The Apple Isle
                                  • Nov 2007
                                  • 347
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Legs Akimbo
                                  I have a broadband connection, admitedly only 512kbps, but surely sufficient for the job? Why is it that I can watch youtube content quite happily without this level of buffering?

                                  I can only think it is a ploy by BigPond to get people to upgrade their connection speed.
                                  It was certainly a good ploy used to make people get rid of the dial-up internet by making it even slower. Now it seems cable itself is starting to slow down as well. Coincidence?
                                  Time for the conspiracy theorists to respond.
                                  "Two cities, One team, Together, Living the Dream."

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                                    • Swans500
                                      Registered User
                                      • Jul 2007
                                      • 808
                                      #10
                                      BigPond video.

                                      I live in the USA and have about 1500 kb DSL and all last year all I got was buffering from AFL.com. Same for others I know here who are on FIOS....5 MEGAbyte speeds and they have the same problem. It is a disgrace.

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                                        • Zlatorog
                                          Senior Player
                                          • Jan 2006
                                          • 1748
                                          #11
                                          Yes, I tend to agree. Telstra media servers are disgrace. I don't understand why AFL is tolerating it. Maybe, we should complain AFL about it.

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