Hello.
I appear to be having some difficulty with the streaming speed within my Bootcamp partition, which is Windows XP SP3.
Say for instance I'm using BBC iPlayer through OS X. I can play all of the content available, including all radio, lower quality video, higher quality video, and the HD stuff. I ran the BBC iPlayer diagnostics test and my connection is rated at ~4880 Kbps, with a streaming speed very similar to my download speed. Running the YouTube test video also displays a streaming speed very similar to my download speed.
Now into Windows through Bootcamp. The maximum streaming speed I can get through iPlayer and YouTube is now ~2500 Kbps; my download speed is untouched, but my streaming speed has almost halved! This means I now can't watch the HD content on iPlayer or YouTube without terrible buffering pauses.
Can anyone think why this may be the case? I'm confused as to why my streaming speed has become crippled under Bootcamp but not OS X, on the same computer.
I tried testing it on my ancient laptop (which is a PC), and I get the same streaming speed result, but I can't rely on this since that could be because the computer is really old and possibly too slow).
If anyone's interested in testing this out for themselves (maybe I'm not the only one suffering from this), then the diagnostics page is http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics
Many thanks!
EDIT: Fixed this issue. Something was messing around with the bandwidth allocation between my router and Windows OS.
I appear to be having some difficulty with the streaming speed within my Bootcamp partition, which is Windows XP SP3.
Say for instance I'm using BBC iPlayer through OS X. I can play all of the content available, including all radio, lower quality video, higher quality video, and the HD stuff. I ran the BBC iPlayer diagnostics test and my connection is rated at ~4880 Kbps, with a streaming speed very similar to my download speed. Running the YouTube test video also displays a streaming speed very similar to my download speed.
Now into Windows through Bootcamp. The maximum streaming speed I can get through iPlayer and YouTube is now ~2500 Kbps; my download speed is untouched, but my streaming speed has almost halved! This means I now can't watch the HD content on iPlayer or YouTube without terrible buffering pauses.
Can anyone think why this may be the case? I'm confused as to why my streaming speed has become crippled under Bootcamp but not OS X, on the same computer.
I tried testing it on my ancient laptop (which is a PC), and I get the same streaming speed result, but I can't rely on this since that could be because the computer is really old and possibly too slow). If anyone's interested in testing this out for themselves (maybe I'm not the only one suffering from this), then the diagnostics page is http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics
Many thanks!
EDIT: Fixed this issue. Something was messing around with the bandwidth allocation between my router and Windows OS.
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