P2P football blocked !?!?

**deanobeano** · #1 20-08-2008, 05:51 PM

i have watched football using sopcast for the last 2 years.
but now it seems to be blocked every time the football is on ..
it works fine up till kick off time, then like sun as soon as the Chelsea game started every channel is offline ????????
i have spoken to 2 of my mates same thing happens to them..

Anyone else have the same problem ???

**Sharky** · #2 20-08-2008, 05:56 PM

Hmmm. Sopcast went down for a while last week but I was watching the Chelsea match on it on Sunday. I have a UK IP like you. What's your ISP, out of interest?

**scudd** · #3 20-08-2008, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Sharky

Hmmm. Sopcast went down for a while last week but I was watching the Chelsea match on it on Sunday. I have a UK IP like you. What's your ISP, out of interest?

he's on telewest sharky

**Sharky** · #4 20-08-2008, 06:03 PM

So Virgin then. Same as me.

**deanobeano** · #5 20-08-2008, 06:12 PM

my mate reckons ISP are blocking or overloading certain P2P connections in certain ares, we live no further then 15 miles from London his ISP is pipex/homecall

**accieturk** · #6 20-08-2008, 10:32 PM

on virgin as well cant say ive noticed any problem the little ive been on recently

it may just have been a problem with sopcasts server i know its been playing up lately
another thought is given the internet signal still comes through the fibre cables same as tv pictures these can be affected during periods of heavy rainfall if like rest of the country you will have had your fair share of that lately
and finally remeber virgin/blueyonder are operating their (un)fair use policy that sees your bandwidth slashed for exceeding d/L U/l flimits during certain time periods a low D/L may cause disruption to a stream

**Begbie** · #7 21-08-2008, 12:15 PM

I had problems getting Sopcast channels to load on Saturday but it seemed like the Sopcast server was rammed. TvAnts went down completely for a while on Saturday but I got the last 70 minutes of the Spurs match on it. Wish I hadn't bothered.

Virgin have been 'leading' the way in the UK in trying to stop P2P and file-sharing.

**gingerninja2005** · #8 05-11-2008, 11:22 AM

I'm on virgin and it has been fine just have to try a few links sometimes.

**tjl** · #9 06-11-2008, 07:41 AM

I'm on virgin as well but just recently my firewall(Sygate)as been detecting some one scanning my compy,and users of this firewall are aware that you can backtrace the culprit and guess who they came up for an address...yes Virgin,I have never had this in all of 5 years with them but I will be changing my ISP when the contract expires early next year....

**Begbie** · #10 06-11-2008, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by tjl

I'm on virgin as well but just recently my firewall(Sygate)as been detecting some one scanning my compy,and users of this firewall are aware that you can backtrace the culprit and guess who they came up for an address...yes Virgin,I have never had this in all of 5 years with them but I will be changing my ISP when the contract expires early next year....

Get Tommo onto the case. He's a tenacious muvvafucker and won't let go until he's proven right.

My broadband contract is up for renewal. I'm with BT and they're the only ones, that I know of, that let you make payments over the post office counter as and when you want. I don't have a bank a/c but I'm trying to 'scare' BT into giving me something for nothing.

**deadlywill** · #11 06-11-2008, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Begbie

Get Tommo onto the case. He's a tenacious muvvafucker and won't let go until he's proven right.

My broadband contract is up for renewal. I'm with BT and they're the only ones, that I know of, that let you make payments over the post office counter as and when you want. I don't have a bank a/c but I'm trying to 'scare' BT into giving me something for nothing.

Dont have a bank account??? What possible problem could you have with banks???