AppleTV "Ready To Play in 47 minutes"
Well the figure varies between that and over one hour.
Once upon a time, HD movies would play instantly and the whole movie would have been downloaded in about 30 minutes.
(It now says 1 hour 24 mins)
So who is to blame?
Apple or BT?
Has BT taken on too many new Inifinty customers for their infratructure to handle? Problems with equipment and engineers who dont know what they are doing?
It is now 1 hour 19 minutes
The film is only 1:37:45 long
The AppleTV is linked to the HH5 using the apple provided ethernet cable.
Should I just give up?
John46, just to confirm you have AppleTV and it streams okay?
My link just glitched yet again
19:22:40, 25 Dec.
(29798.710000) WAN operating mode is VDSL
19:22:40, 25 Dec.
(29798.710000) Last WAN operating mode was VDSL
19:22:39, 25 Dec.
(29797.240000) PPP IPCP Receive Configuration ACK
19:22:38, 25 Dec.
(29797.230000) PPP IPCP Send Configuration Request
19:22:38, 25 Dec.
(29797.230000) PPP IPCP Receive Configuration NAK
19:22:38, 25 Dec.
(29797.220000) PPP IPCP Send Configuration ACK
19:22:38, 25 Dec.
(29797.220000) PPP IPCP Receive Configuration Request
19:22:38, 25 Dec.
(29797.220000) PPP IPCP Send Configuration Request
19:22:37, 25 Dec.
(29795.780000) CWMP: session closed due to error: No response
19:22:37, 25 Dec.
(29795.950000) PPPoE is up - Down Rate=32112000Kbps, Up Rate=6777000Kbps; SNR Margin Down=6.0dB, Up=-64.1dB
19:21:52, 25 Dec.
(29750.520000) PTM over DSL is down after 34 minutes uptime
19:21:52, 25 Dec.
(29750.510000) PPPoE is down after 34 minutes uptime [Waiting for Underlying Connection (WAN Ethernet 2 - Down)]
19:21:47, 25 Dec.
(29745.240000) PPP LCP Send Termination Request [User request]
Worked for 34 minutes - cool
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