Has anyone experienced very slow streaming on UMD for the last 3 days or so from playing the trailers on the home page to downloading pictures on the messy forum threads? YouTube trailers are fine. It just seems to the trailers added by the op's. For the record I am using an iPad and all other websites are fine, just not UMD.
From my experience, video streaming on the UMD has always been pretty terrible to the point where I don't bother waiting the age before the video loads.
500Mbps internet here and it still take 2+ minutes to load a 20 second clip
MM will be able to confirm exact details but I'd expect that streaming bandwidth is very much prioritised to paid-for streaming subscriptions, with freebies and trailers taking whatever is left over, which during busy times won't be much.
Also bear in mind if in the UK, you're importing all the data over a trans-Atlantic link. Big multinationals like Disney+ and YouTube have content delivery networks that mean when you stream content, chances are it's coming from a datacentre less than 50 miles away over a very high capacity network.
But systems like that are expensive, fine when you're Disney with a million subscribers, less so for a small niche site like this one. So when you stream content from UMD, it's coming from a datacentre in Las Vegas, and via a lot more hops than content from a major streamer is.
DungeonMasterOne said: MM will be able to confirm exact details but I'd expect that streaming bandwidth is very much prioritised to paid-for streaming subscriptions, with freebies and trailers taking whatever is left over, which during busy times won't be much.
Also bear in mind if in the UK, you're importing all the data over a trans-Atlantic link. Big multinationals like Disney+ and YouTube have content delivery networks that mean when you stream content, chances are it's coming from a datacentre less than 50 miles away over a very high capacity network.
But systems like that are expensive, fine when you're Disney with a million subscribers, less so for a small niche site like this one. So when you stream content from UMD, it's coming from a datacentre in Las Vegas, and via a lot more hops than content from a major streamer is.
Yes, but 4 days ago playing one of your trailers, for example was instant. Now it is impossibly slow.
DungeonMasterOne said: So when you stream content from UMD, it's coming from a datacentre in Las Vegas, and via a lot more hops than content from a major streamer is.
Yes, but 4 days ago playing one of your trailers, for example was instant. Now it is impossibly slow.
That just means demand was low then, but is high now. It'll fluctuate, affected by both site demand here, and overall Internet traffic patterns.
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