Business Users like the Golf - The Open streaming on the BBC
The Open began yesterday and we noticed a big increase in traffic coming from iPlayer in the morning and afternoon. The BBC website is streaming live coverage of The Open (using the same technology as...
View ArticleBreaking News - Olympics Streaming via iPlayer
We've just noticed a big spike in iPlayer traffic. I think it's fairly easy to conclude that the traffic is people watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. We are currently seeing around...
View ArticleBolt's 200m Record an iPlayer Hit
Congratulations to Jamaica's Usain Bolt who has just added the 200m Olympic gold to his collection with a new world record time of 19.3s. Plusnet customers "tuned in" via the BBC's iPlayer to see the...
View ArticleOlympic Review - The Economic Effects
The Olympics are over for another four years and the Great Britain has returned with the best haul of medals in a century. The feel good factor that generates cannot easily calculated. What we can...
View ArticlePresidential Inauguration Coverage - Another Online Hit
Barack Obama was today inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. Coverage of the ceremony was shown live on several channels in the UK including the BBC. During the 2 hour...
View ArticleIt's snowing, time to work from home
It's the first major snow of the year and a lot of people have decided to stay home and work remotely rather than venture in to the office. And who can blame them to be honest? The information age and...
View ArticleF1 and The Apprentice on iPlayer
Been a while since I posted one of these blogs, so looking at the graphs for the past two weeks I thought I'd post a couple of observations of the traffic we've been seeing. Below is the graph of...
View ArticleMurray Mania Marches On!
Do we have a new tennis hero? I think we have a new British hero! Andy Murray today beat Juan Carlos Ferrero in straight sets to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals. And in what is now becoming the norm...
View ArticlePlusnet Speed Distribution - July 2009
Last year we published the distribution of our customers speeds in order to compare what our customers were starting to see on our 21CN network against what they previously had and also to see what...
View ArticleMore bandwidth for the masses!
It's that time again folks! This morning we activated another 155Mbps segment of central capacity. All of the data you send and receive from your broadband connection travels across these segments of...
View ArticleWhat? More bandwidth!?
You're probably getting used to these announcements by now but we're pleased to announce that this morning we lit yet *another* 155Mbps segment of central capacity. That's hot on the heels of the one...
View ArticleIndecision 2012 - The US Presidential Election Result
Yesterday America spoke and re-elected President Barack Obama. In an election that few would dare to predict the outcome, interest was high here in Blighty just as it was over the Pond. This can be...
View ArticleIt's Unlimited! Why is it still traffic managed?
Traffic management has been given a bad reputation because it is wrongly believed that its sole purpose is to slow down users or certain types of traffic. While historically, this may have been true of...
View ArticleWhy traffic management matters
Increasingly, people and technology writers seem to view any type of traffic management as an infringement on their online freedoms, a sort of arbitrary punishment dealt out from on high by the ISPs....
View ArticleBroadband data limits: what do you get for a gigabyte, and how much do you need?
We’re delighted to bring you a guest post this week from none other than Matt Powell, Editor at BroadbandGenie.co.uk – the UK’s leading independent broadband, mobile broadband and smartphone comparison...
View ArticleMicrosoft Xbox One Launch
Yesterday Microsoft announced the launch of the new Xbox, the Xbox One. There was certainly a lot of interest, while we can only make an educated guess as to what people were watching, based on the...
View ArticleGoogle is dead... The Internet is Closed
And relax, it's back... but for about 5 minutes on Friday night Google was down worldwide for every single online Google service from search to YouTube to Google Docs. Read on to find out what impact...
View ArticleUnprecedented demand for iOS7
Last night around 6pm Apple released iOS7, the latest operating system for iPhones and iPads to the world. Alongside the update came a new version of iTunes and lots of app updates to take advantage of...
View ArticleInternet usage around big events
Have you ever wondered how many other people are on the Internet doing the same thing as you? How many people are on the same page you are such as reading the same news article, or watching the same...
View ArticleBandwidth and the Rise of Online Gaming
After a hard day’s work you get home, put your feet up and switch on your computer to check your emails, stream some music and just chill out. But as you load up that first website, much to your...
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