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"Ukraine v England - can the internet take it!?!"

Some people are saying there will be problems when the footie starts this afternoon! www.ukrainevengland.com only available via the internet...

Not enough capacity to go round...

B* have even produced a guide:
Here's a snippet, I haven't linked to it in case someone should go on to sign up with *T
;¬)

Here's a short guide to enjoying the Ukraine v England game if you're planning to watch it online this Saturday. The technical requirements have been set by Perform Media Services Ltd, the company showing the game.

This is the first time that such an event, with a potentially huge audience, has been on the internet. There will be pressure on the entire broadband network during the match, and slow speeds could affect everybody using the internet, not just BT customers.

Probably be a bit like the Millennium bug and no one will notice...
Yet another football thread from [s]Hmmm...[/s]

Well it looks like it was pretty much ok. Who could have known eh?

ANd you kinda prompted me Hmmm... we are generally aware of things like this, but it was me in on Saturday and no one had actually put it up.

OK this end too Hmmm :-)

I'm getting a better service, my full IP Profile(!) even with this 'football match' on than I get during the week...

Hopefully the powers that be will get on top of things soon.
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Great match!
Things seem to be holding up fine :¬)

I would have thought some of the important Wimbledon matches (which were both free and not visitor capped) caused more problems/usage.


My Freeola node - Faraday, City of London has only just touched 90% - BETTER THAN MOST OF THE WEEKDAYS recently :¬P

Anti Loss Tool (ALT) is currently off but I can see the 'backhaul' is causing some loss of speed but not a problem at the moment.


EDIT: Forgot to mention that I see Freeola also updated their 'Status Page' - I'm sure it wasn't me that prompted that...


On to other news...
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

I just can't be bothered with England. To be honest, i diverted from football for abit, i'm behind the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL aswell. Might watch their match tonight :D

A liverpool fan not being fond of England? 0_o
Think of it this way Chris. All the England team have is their history.

And it's stupid. Better than not watching it at all, but only marginally. If it does go badly, then it will be terrible. And it sets a precedence for doing the same in the future.

Bring all England matches back to ITV i say. It's the only decent thing they ever did.

How can it be silly? Is it a better idea that nobody has access to it?

Don't really care about England vs Ukraine xD Seriously, like i am not behind our international squad at all, i couldn't care less if we lose or win, the England squad are terrible.

*EDIT* Oh yeh, Ukraine are going to win ;P Voronin's going to score 5 ROFL.

Don't really care about the ISP aspect of it :) (I do obviously)

That opinion was from a football fan. It's just a silly idea.

Warhunt wrote:
> Such a stupid idea.

An ISP would say that. :p