gm wrote:Should have watched it on NBC stream. Perfect all day
What sort of set up you got? I have 12mbit per second internet and it consistently tests out at 11.5mb when I do a speed test and I have it hooked up directly (no wireless). I was reasonably happy the first three days, but today I was yelling at the screen when it decided to buffer during the 400 meter final. My laptop is brand new and should have adequate video processing. And honestly when it starts to bog down there are times when even lowering the resolution to 240 does no good.
gm wrote:Should have watched it on NBC stream. Perfect all day
What sort of set up you got? I have 12mbit per second internet and it consistently tests out at 11.5mb when I do a speed test and I have it hooked up directly (no wireless). I was reasonably happy the first three days, but today I was yelling at the screen when it decided to buffer during the 400 meter final. My laptop is brand new and should have adequate video processing. And honestly when it starts to bog down there are times when even lowering the resolution to 240 does no good.
I was lucky... laptop on school ethernet which is not the speediest in the world.
gm wrote:Should have watched it on NBC stream. Perfect all day
What sort of set up you got? I have 12mbit per second internet and it consistently tests out at 11.5mb when I do a speed test and I have it hooked up directly (no wireless). I was reasonably happy the first three days, but today I was yelling at the screen when it decided to buffer during the 400 meter final. My laptop is brand new and should have adequate video processing. And honestly when it starts to bog down there are times when even lowering the resolution to 240 does no good.
My connection was perfect all day as well. Installed Adblock and thus, did not have any commercials.
Maybe the problem is with your ISP. I have a fast fiber optic connection 25 megabit dowload speed.
I watched links from sportlemon.tv and firstrowsports.eu yesterday and today and only had the links drop out maybe 3 or 4 times-annoying yes but if you have multiple windows up you are ready to watch one when the other goes.
donley2 wrote: What sort of set up you got? I have 12mbit per second internet and it consistently tests out at 11.5mb when I do a speed test
If you have the option, ask your server to increase your speed. You can drop it back after the Olympics and it'll probably only cost you a few bucks. I have four feeds running on four computers and rarely have buffering with 25mbps. When using one, I can get 1080p, 720 during busy times (like Sunday). When using all 4, I'm happy with the 360-480 I get with rare buffering.
Using Firefox with AdBlock, it seems I can watch any sport I wanna see without commercials or any significant buffering, with ONE exception. TRACK and FIELD!!! The main Olympic sport I'm interested in seeing! lol
It sucks! But at least I have BBC. Although I give up something in terms of video quality (By the time they ran the 1500 meter final, I was really getting such poor video quality on BBC, that I couldn't tell which American had medaled and which one hadn't, until they put up the results on the screen.), at least I still get to see things live.
sprintzfan wrote: It sucks! But at least I have BBC. Although I give up something in terms of video quality (By the time they ran the 1500 meter final, I was really getting such poor video quality on BBC, that I couldn't tell which American had medaled and which one hadn't, until they put up the results on the screen.), at least I still get to see things live.
I agree with using AdBlock. Oddly it works on three of my computers, but one of my two Vistas still shows commercials while an XP and W7 computer are commercial free. How come you're not watching the NBC feeds, Sprintzfan? The evening sessions have great commentary and are 1000x better video-wise than the BBC. For the AM session, when NBC had no commentary, I went over to the Beeb, but about midway through they switched to BBC-3 and neither of the two sites I"m using carried channel 3. Damn, that men's 1500 was thrilling.
The repetitious commercials are annoying. I understand that is what makes the free feed possible and am willing to tolerate them but why can't they have them between events instead of at crucial moments or even wiping out entire events?
bruce3404 wrote: ...How come you're not watching the NBC feeds, Sprintzfan? The evening sessions have great commentary and are 1000x better video-wise than the BBC...
I tried to today. For the reason you say, the video being better quality. But it buffered and froze on me some. So I went with BBC.
Every other sport I watch on NBC Live Extra is fine. No buffering problem. But Track buffers on me.
Been watching the sport lemon link from the first page of this thread. I get the BBC coverage from that. But this morning is weird. They're showing the Womens HJ.....with no commentary. And no 4X400 R!!! Are they running the heats?? I see all the jumpers walking on the track...and no runners going by!! Have they delayed the heats??? Also, why no commentary?? When I began watching, with the Dec 110H, they DID have commentary!!!
uakari wrote:f****k, nbc stream kept freezing for the 2nd semi of the w800... only caught the end...
You're wrong blaming NBC; it worked great for me and, I"m sure, others today. What sort of download speed do you have? Did you check it when it started buffering? Did your ISP have problems today? Was someone else in your house eating up a lot of bandwidth? There are many reasons that aren't controllable by NBC.
It seems to me that NBC streaming page is way too busy, and at times something or some combination of things overwhelms my processor. Then the stream goes into a holding pattern, which is typically fixed by just reloading the page. The first couple of times it happened, I kept hoping it would come back and it didn't. Then I just hit reload, and things got better.
The reason that I say this is that I often have two tabs open, one with the main feed and the other with a field event. The main event will hang up, but the field event will still be going fine. I reload the main event, and things work out. There have been a couple of times where I just closed the second stream because I thought that my internet was overloaded.
uakari wrote:f****k, nbc stream kept freezing for the 2nd semi of the w800... only caught the end...
You're wrong blaming NBC; it worked great for me and, I"m sure, others today. What sort of download speed do you have? Did you check it when it started buffering? Did your ISP have problems today? Was someone else in your house eating up a lot of bandwidth? There are many reasons that aren't controllable by NBC.
I agree with that. I have had hardly any problems at all, all week. And nothing at a crucial moment. On a 27 inch monitor it has been a great week.
mcgato wrote: The reason that I say this is that I often have two tabs open, one with the main feed and the other with a field event. The main event will hang up, but the field event will still be going fine. I reload the main event, and things work out. There have been a couple of times where I just closed the second stream because I thought that my internet was overloaded.
I think you may have solved the problem. Maybe your video card can't handle two tabs running two feeds all the time? I've not tried it that way, but rather set up four separate computers to run the four streams usually available. If you have an extra computer lying around, maybe that would work better for you.
No, it's not a video card problem, since I'm viewing on my computer. Any choking is due to either internet service provider getting overloaded or crappy coding on the NBC streaming page. Usually the latter.
Part of the future that worries me about this streaming trend is I don't think it will EVER be as reliable as a decent pay tv service. The internet and all the ISP's simply do not achieve that level of service and I honestly don't think they ever will. Not to mention the infinite combination of software that can be running on any given individuals computer and all the potential hardware/software issues that might occur. For those who cheer for all streaming all the time, all I can is while I have loved using the streams there is a lot of room for bad things to happen.
FYI, there is a way to download NBC's livestreams (all feeds) to your computer in whatever resolution you want, including 1080p. However, it's not an undertaking for the computer iliterate. Obviously, NBC has an nterest in ake this sort of thing can't be done easily.
i must have a bad connection, the nbc streaming works well for maybe 75% of the time, but often freezes, skips and the quality deteriorates. frustrating to watch today... after hours seems to work best (i'm doing this at work).
uakari wrote:it's the bbc folks, matthews and someone else.
i must have a bad connection, the nbc streaming works well for maybe 75% of the time, but often freezes, skips and the quality deteriorates. frustrating to watch today... after hours seems to work best (i'm doing this at work).
sorry, it's not the BBC, since i just tried the BBC feed (thanks, sprintfanz) and tehy have different folks. but they are brits as well.
funny thing, once i had 2 feeds open, the nbc streaming got better!
