daisymoll

i keep getting a general error each time I try to use Radio player and its getting really annoying as it cuts out after about three minutes. Trying to listen to Steve Wright. Has anyone had this sort of problem before?

Ta

Sonia

Gail

Hi, I am also currently listening to Steve Wright !!! I listen via the Radio 2 website - how do you listen via Radio Player? It can also be annoying via the website as there can be long pauses - not sure if that is because I am on dial-up and not on broadband.

George-Ang

Do you use the real player that is designed for this ? it can be downloaded from Radio 2 site, or radio 1 as well, i listen to both when on the road.
And the answer to your question Gail is yes, dial up effects the quality, because what happens is it downloads in parts and does what is called buffering, if your dialup it cannot keep up with the speed at which the Radio is broadcasting, have you tried the listen again feature, this might be better, though i doubt it
www.bbc.co.uk./radio2

iaink

Yep, thats dial up.

Someone on one of the other forums mentioned they were having probs after some BBC upgrade last week. Was working fine for me at the weekend using the built in beeb website player though.

George-Ang

This link is for those who like the UK sporting side of things, live footy commentary, 6 nations, ect.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/

iaink

Unfortunately a lot of the sporting content is not available outside the UK due to licensing issues, so no premiership commentary, although the friendly yesterday was available.

George-Ang

Make you wonder why it is called the WWW "World wide Web" when issues like this are in place, pathetic if you ask me.

iaink

It really is pointless, as I suspect the more technically adept can easily make their IP address look like you are in the UK anyway.

But I'm not that technically adept, or at least no one has told me how to do that anyway.

George-Ang

Could one not use an IP Spoofer , surely this will help ????? come on you techies, i know a bit about PC's ive got city and guilds in PC maintenance and repair, but this one needs answering...and i cant, .....can the bbc broadcasts be bypast to allow transmisions to Canada using an IP spoofer ?