Spark Sport
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@mariner4life Just pointing out why they are a long way from ever becoming a thing.
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@Chris-B said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@mariner4life Just pointing out why they are a long way from ever becoming a thing.
maybe not as far as you think, at least in some inner-city restricted areas.
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@mariner4life Probably not - but, I don't think I'll be investing in them.
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@Chris-B said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@mariner4life Just pointing out why they are a long way from ever becoming a thing.
Surely it's much cheaper to get a drone and put your bomb on that than buy an expensive self driving car.
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@Chris-B said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@mariner4life Probably not - but, I don't think I'll be investing in them.
of course not, you don't even have internet. One step at a time aye?
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@Nepia said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@Chris-B said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@mariner4life Just pointing out why they are a long way from ever becoming a thing.
Surely it's much cheaper to get a drone and put your bomb on that than buy an expensive self driving car.
cheaper? Ask the US military...
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@Nepia said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@Chris-B said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@mariner4life Just pointing out why they are a long way from ever becoming a thing.
Surely it's much cheaper to get a drone and put your bomb on that than buy an expensive self driving car.
Buy?
Aren't you from Hastings?
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@mariner4life said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@Nepia said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@Chris-B said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@mariner4life Just pointing out why they are a long way from ever becoming a thing.
Surely it's much cheaper to get a drone and put your bomb on that than buy an expensive self driving car.
cheaper? Ask the US military...
I was keeping with the suicide bomber theme so was thinking of those ones you buy in camera shops more so than the tricked out US ones.
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.@Chris-B said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@Nepia said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@Chris-B said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@mariner4life Just pointing out why they are a long way from ever becoming a thing.
Surely it's much cheaper to get a drone and put your bomb on that than buy an expensive self driving car.
Buy?
Aren't you from Hastings?
Flaxmere man, I think people from Hastings "city" still buy stuff?
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It's starting to look like Spark have their streaming services working fine at a technical level having ironed out some of the kinks but the problems now lie (as predicted by many) with infrastructure and ISPs.
For starters anyone not on Fibre is going to cop some issues stemming from heavy demand. This could be at the home itself (other family members trying to watch something else while the rugby is on) and/or at the cabinet (or even ISP). We all remember those days where everything slowed down as neighbourhood kids arrived home from school and watched HD clips on YouTube. Well Sunday afternoon, parents want some peace and quiet at the end of the weekend and the kids dive on their tablets. Also anyone on WiFi and using their 2.4 band to cast to the TV are likely to get interference and buffering as someone starts using the microwave or using their cordless landline. All things that you often wouldn't notice except when intensely watching live sport (which you may be used to seeing in full HD)
To an extent this is also going to happen with some ISPs on Fibre as well as their switching equipment at the exchange gets heavily loaded. I bet that if you did a speedtest while the rugby is on you won't be getting the same speeds as normal.
What this comes back to is whether such a high demand event should have been the one to try and create a new way (for most people) with. -
@Crucial said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
It's starting to look like Spark have their streaming services working fine at a technical level having ironed out some of the kinks but the problems now lie (as predicted by many) with infrastructure and ISPs.
For starters anyone not on Fibre is going to cop some issues stemming from heavy demand. This could be at the home itself (other family members trying to watch something else while the rugby is on) and/or at the cabinet (or even ISP). We all remember those days where everything slowed down as neighbourhood kids arrived home from school and watched HD clips on YouTube. Well Sunday afternoon, parents want some peace and quiet at the end of the weekend and the kids dive on their tablets. Also anyone on WiFi and using their 2.4 band to cast to the TV are likely to get interference and buffering as someone starts using the microwave or using their cordless landline. All things that you often wouldn't notice except when intensely watching live sport (which you may be used to seeing in full HD)
To an extent this is also going to happen with some ISPs on Fibre as well as their switching equipment at the exchange gets heavily loaded. I bet that if you did a speedtest while the rugby is on you won't be getting the same speeds as normal.
What this comes back to is whether such a high demand event should have been the one to try and create a new way (for most people) with.Agree but who’s not on fibre now? Just rural?
I was down at the bach in the weekend and they are even putting fibre in down there in a coastal area
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@JK said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@Crucial said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
It's starting to look like Spark have their streaming services working fine at a technical level having ironed out some of the kinks but the problems now lie (as predicted by many) with infrastructure and ISPs.
For starters anyone not on Fibre is going to cop some issues stemming from heavy demand. This could be at the home itself (other family members trying to watch something else while the rugby is on) and/or at the cabinet (or even ISP). We all remember those days where everything slowed down as neighbourhood kids arrived home from school and watched HD clips on YouTube. Well Sunday afternoon, parents want some peace and quiet at the end of the weekend and the kids dive on their tablets. Also anyone on WiFi and using their 2.4 band to cast to the TV are likely to get interference and buffering as someone starts using the microwave or using their cordless landline. All things that you often wouldn't notice except when intensely watching live sport (which you may be used to seeing in full HD)
To an extent this is also going to happen with some ISPs on Fibre as well as their switching equipment at the exchange gets heavily loaded. I bet that if you did a speedtest while the rugby is on you won't be getting the same speeds as normal.
What this comes back to is whether such a high demand event should have been the one to try and create a new way (for most people) with.Agree but who’s not on fibre now? Just rural?
I was down at the bach in the weekend and they are even putting fibre in down there in a coastal area
Availability doesn't equal connections by any stretch hence the advertising to get people to upgrade. Those on VDSL plans at say 30/10 see little need in normal day to day use to change but may feel some effects during a broadcast like this.
I probably didn't explain clearly in my waffling but my point was that fibre alone doesn't always solve the experience either.- there will still be bottlenecks somewhere during a high demand live event with some ISPs (they have to put their own switching equipment at exchanges and you get what they pay for.
- someone with a corded connection from router to TV will be better off than someone casting on a home wifi network, especially if they don't understand the likely speed differences between 2.4/5 and the potential for interference on 2.4. (eg dad has a TV set up in another room for the rugby using wifi and due to the distance/location of that room uses the 2.4 network and gets degraded signal and interference as, say, the microwave switches on).
- a live stream is a different beast to a streamed movie where a buffer can be built up ahead of your watching and you don't notice glitching. A live event is on constant feed and a glitch means you have to catch up on yourself.
Having a live streaming sports product is fine and the way of the future. Using a very high demand event to bring viewers on board and iron out the kinks (at both ends) was/is a very risky approach.
I have been watching on ITV via firestick which is wifi connected and even through a VPN it has been fine. However there has been the odd moment where quality hasn't been as great as a satellite broadcast. Just lots off opportunity for glitches basically.
EDIT: As an example of load, yesterday (7 Oct), a day with no NZ game on had peak traffic on the Chorus network alone equivalent to 400,000 HD videos. That shows how good the capacity in NZ is but also shows the potential for a small % to affect a reasonable number.
