are we down?

[mickey1973]

are we down?

[mickey1973]

since almost all people on this forum say that iptv goes down almost everyday in the evenings,

does this mean that all ppv events will be down too? since iptv seems to always go down in the evening...

any of you peeps have been able to view ppv events (ufc, boxing, wrestling, etc...) without any glitches?

thank you
Mickey

[dara]

Generally, PPVs are pretty solid. PPVs have lots of sources, and the servers usually have more than one channel, even extra channels to show PPVs. On the other hand, regular TV may not have as many sources per channel, and the servers themselves get slammed with requests for the same stream. It isn't a problem isolated to the supported servers, you see that with smaller competitors as well. Adding to this are users of services like NetFlix or Hulu, so intermediate servers just passing packets are getting slammed.

Last night was not good on any service I used, but it cleared up in the late evening. But getting back to your question, mickey, PPVs are often more reliable than a stream, say from Fox News, or ESPN, or any other very popular channel.

[mickey1973]

Generally, PPVs are pretty solid. PPVs have lots of sources, and the servers usually have more than one channel, even extra channels to show PPVs. On the other hand, regular TV may not have as many sources per channel, and the servers themselves get slammed with requests for the same stream. It isn't a problem isolated to the supported servers, you see that with smaller competitors as well. Adding to this are users of services like NetFlix or Hulu, so intermediate servers just passing packets are getting slammed.

Last night was not good on any service I used, but it cleared up in the late evening. But getting back to your question, mickey, PPVs are often more reliable than a stream, say from Fox News, or ESPN, or any other very popular channel.

Thank You dara