I'd be interested to know if others have recently been having similar
experiences as myself with the BBC aac iPlayer not working correctly.

Since 'Wimbledon' started I have found the following.

1) Before about 9am each day the iPlayer (both live and 'listen again')
works fine.

2) After about 9am each day the stream becomes subject to repeated delays.
The result being bursts of about 1 sec of music/sound with gaps of up to a
few seconds in between.

3) if I then try listening to a non-BBC net radio stream this plays fine.
For example various European and USA 256kbps and 192kbps streams play
with no problems.

So far as I can see (3) implies my connection and my ISP's machine are able
to provide the necessary data rates with no problem. But given that (2)
that somewhere in the BBC side of things the data is being held up during
the day by something that isn't happening earlier.

My assumption has been that so many people are going to work and using
their office computers to watch people in Wimbledon play with balls that
the BBC radio streams are being disrupted.

Have others had similar experiences recently? Or is my choice of ISP or the
fact that I live some way from London mean I and other 'provincials' are
being affected when softy southerners are not? :-)

If my diagnosis is correct I wonder if we will be able to listen to radio
via the iPlayer during the Olympics. If so, another reason for my wishing
it hadn't been 'won' sic by the UK. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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