iPlayer on JANET
May0
In my recent post about BBC iPlayer and the fact that PAVCON was abysmally bad at streaming I promised to do a comparison of the network where I currently reside against the behemoth that is JANET. For those who don’t know JANET is the network behind most academia in the UK, and is blazingly fast.
Well, I finally remembered to do this test whilst I was in the labs today, so here are the results.
iPlayer on JANET
I think that should suffice for watching TV. A curious fact though is that the PCs provided by the university are woefully underpowered for actually watching HD TV, lacking sufficient clout to actually decrypt and render the stream at any more than a couple of frames a second.
So, it looks like the way forwards is still beefy broadband and my laptop. bring on the new house in July.
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