Ifollow irony

To be fair, once the game started, it worked faultlessly. Although I did turn down the quality. I don't ever have a problem with anything else. I work from home and my connection never drops out.

 

I've got a ridiculously speedy Virgin Media connection, and ifollow still goes down once or twice a game.

I used to think that it wasn't that bad, but then I realised that at £10 a pop that's the best part of forty quid a month over the season. It's considerably more expensive than Sky Sports (for far fewer games), and absolutely laughable in comparison.

I suppose the club do say that they get some money (or most of it?), but then I wonder what ifollow's angle is. Do they get a flat fee? I've got no idea whether I'm paying the club for 'virtual entry' (which is fine) or ifollow for having bagged the rights (which is not).

 

I have exactly the same iFollow experience. Today I managed to watch rugby through an Amazon stream great quality throughout and no buffering.

Ifollow ends up running about five minutes behind for each half because of the buffering and the picture quality is at best indifferent.

I’ve got fibre running at around 65mb/s and expecting Styles to score any minute!

 

Getting a goal alert on my phone from BBC sport and only then realising that ifollow wanted me to press a button to get the stream back up to 'Live' was a personal highlight this season.

 

I turn off the phone so it doesn’t spoil the game with goal updates.

 

The worst is getting a goal update or an half time update from ifollow itself via a notification long before ifollow on the same app actually shows it

 

Where can I get one? And is there a Keith Hill one in the range?

 

I just delete the BBC Sport app once the cricket season is over. But it's wild that you can pay a tenner for a 90 minute experience and it's still not the best option for keeping up to date.

 

Does anyone with the relevant tech knowledge have an idea as to what the iFollow problems could be caused by? It beats me.

When it goes down it often affects plenty of people at the exact same time (e.g. plenty missed that QPR own goal) but seemingly not everyone. So it cannot be going down entirely. Would there be various servers that people connect to at random and certain servers go down, so affecting whoever was unlucky enough to be on that one?

It affects various people at random when others have a perfectly fine stream, indicating it is at the user's end but we all have decent connections and don't get interruptions on other streaming services. Despite being down here in 'straya I cannot remember the last time YouTube or Netflix buffered.

I've found that the browser itself affects whether I can get a stream with Firefox much more likely to work over Edge (despite usually being the other way around with these things due to the script and ad blocking style add-ons I have on Firefox).

Or is it a global conspiracy with ISPs trying to stop us watching the Reds?

 

You need to wear out a Lee Johnson one wlong before you can get a Keith Hill

 

The BBC is one of the worst for getting updates on football games, notoriously more than 2-3 minutes behind reality, sometimes more. Even the "Soccer Saturday" vidiprinter is way behind, that's why I stopped watching ages ago (when we play away of course)