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hermes3: I'm a spark customer. We recently changed from ADSL to Fibre using the Huawei HG630b.
Changeover was not quite a week ago. Within the last few days pretty much all of the common video streaming sites are no longer streaming (eg videoweed, moveshare.et, nowvideo.sx, novamovie.com etc).
Sites are accessible, links work etc, but video itself is blocked - continuous loading sitting at 0%.
If you search around you can find more obscure sites that do work. This blocking across all devices and has only occurred since Fibre install.
Using a VPN, the same links work, videos stream. Results form http://www.lagado.com/tools/cache-test suggest there is a 'stealthed transparent proxy cache' involved.
It would seem to me, based on all this, the most logical conclusion is that Spark has applied a new blocking policy to the Fibre service. If so, I'm a little surprised that this policy hasn't been made public (that I know of) and that the 3 Spark employees in this thread don't appear to have any knowledge of a new policy.
One can understand the possible reasoning behind such a move given the pending introduction of services like netflix, but the lack of openness wouldn't inspire confidence and that kind of approach generally backfires when things like this become more widely publicised.
I'd be happy to find there is another explanation for this and look forward to updates on this thread, until then I think the simplest explanation is probably the correct one.
"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Occasionally it bursts into life, but mostly runs at just a few bytes/sec. This did not used to happen when on ADSL - only since upgrading. It does not appear to affect YouTube or other high bandwidth sites - Skyping with video for example is actually very good.
I am using an iPad to download, but problem affects my wife's iPad too. We are using the BBC iPlayer application.
Any ideas gratefully received.
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freitasm: A month on... How are you folks doing? Is this solved yet?
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