exceeding bandwidth??

hi have a desktop 5150 and tried watchin a tv programe on it the over day and this message came up "' exceeding bandwidth " do i have too much stuff on my computer ? how do i get rid of some of it thanks caroline

jpl888

Could you be more specific?

We need to know what website you were trying to watch the program on and the whole error message to help.

hi thanks for the reply it was the bbc iplayer site and that was the message was bandwidth exceeded try downloading the programe

jpl888

I think I know what that is. It's basically telling you that the bandwidth requirements of the programme are too much for your connection/connection conditions.

You'll find that the programme pauses when this happens, until the downloading has caught up.

In other words it can't download the programme fast enough to stream it properly because of your connection (or I suppose the BBC iplayer website could be under a lot of load).

I used to get that message when using it on mobile broadband (you know the download can be crap).

thanks for the reply any way to get round it ? thanks

jpl888

Get a better internet connection

haha ok thanks

jpl888

I knew you'd like that one

JonathanAnon

Or watch it on off peak time.. If you are on broadband it is a shared connection, and if there is a lot of people on (i.e. like peak time during the evening) you may not have sufficient bandwidth to be able to to view your program. However, if you watch it later, say after 11 (when there are less people on the bband), you will probably have sufficient bandwidth to view the program properly..

After 1AM, everything I watch is usually perfect..

jpl888

Good advice. Or it could be the proxy you are using to view that can't send the data fast enough.

duckysauce

are you in ireland or the uk ?