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[modey]

Is this worse than any year so far?

[ark]

It does rather depend on which ISP and where you live as well.

From my house, via virgin media, cant get past the "request in a q page" With hubbys work connection, even though it gets to his work via virgin media 2 lots of tickets bought!!!

[ghbradshaw]

Has anyone tried through a proxy server or vpn?

[Bonedaddy]

Is this worse than any year so far?

[newguy(paranoid)]

Oh good so there's a chance that loads of people never had a chance in the first place then??

[MoonBuggy]

Phew, that was close! The Glasto twitter feed thinks they'll be out by about 1pm. Just got mine a second ago!

[Px.]

Have lost all my queing screens after hours. Is it over - until April?

[eFestivals]

After no joy for hours via Virgin Media, I read this thread, tried via my work VPN and got through in about 5 mins. Something odd going on with connection priorities it seems...

nah, I think it's just random. You got thru cos you were gonna get thru at that precise moment.

[Bonedaddy]

no, the year they went on sale at 9pm on the sunday and we were up all night, eventually got them at 8am and had to go striaght to work, 2004 i think it was

[modey]

nothing to do with isp,location etc, it's just pot luck really

[captain futility]

sorry. didn't work.

Edited October 3, 2010 by synkafncrew

[Liam_G]

Its weird because on ticketmaster you get put in a queue and it gives you a time of how long you will be in it, you cant even get in the queue on seetickets

[Shane88]

cant wait till its sold out. then i might actually give up on getting the tickets.... lol jeezz

[libertine187]

ticketmaster doesnt offer the tickets!!!

[MoonBuggy]

And yes, it definitely looks like there were some VERY dodgy connection priorities - I'm going to be in touch with See tomorrow to make some attempt at getting to the bottom of it. I spent a good three hours getting the occasional glimpse of the queue screen (maybe saw it four times total, followed by more timeouts after one or two refreshes). After switching to the VPN I was in instantly, no sign of a timeout anywhere, and had a ticket within 20 minutes. I fully believe that I never had a chance on my original connection, and it was only people mentioning that they were having more luck on Opera Turbo (which uses a transparent proxy) or iPhone's 3G connections that happened to help me jump in at the last minute. A very, very unfair system - probably not intentional, but hard to forgive nonetheless.

[lharris92]

ticketmaster doesnt offer the tickets!!!

[eFestivals]

nothing to do with isp,location etc, it's just pot luck really

Yep.

I reckon that as so many on here are reporting difficulties - more so than in recent years - it gets to show that the demand for tickets is far greater this year.

It's quite possibly the case that hundreds of thousands of people are going to miss out this year. And of course those that get tickets are happy, and those that miss out blame the system somehow - but some people have to miss out if there's too many people wanting to go.

[Liam_G]

i was just comparing ticketmaster in general for concert tickets

[dwukky]

Well this has been a weird day

on my direct internet connection (Virgin Media) no joy at all, it was as if it was all servers down. Asked next door if I could use theirs (BT) - got to the queue page, but never no further. Went back home, still no luck. Used my uni vpn and bang - straight thru

Only big problem is one out of the 6 registrations wouldn't work for love or money - so i have banked 5 tickets and will have to figure out the last one at some point in the future.

[Guitargeek4]

Whats VPN? How do i do it? Getting desperate.

[al_coholic]

id rather they did to seetickets, much better service

[Alexi]

Tried on the net for 4 hours and finally got them using my old nokia internet phone - went straight through. If anyone still has them it takes time but works!

Good luck

[Liam_G]

I officially give up!

[newguy(paranoid)]

just tried my crappy 3g phone on the offchance and got straight into a queue, this is definitely unfair!

[lharris92]

Yep.

I reckon that as so many on here are reporting difficulties - more so than in recent years - it gets to show that the demand for tickets is far greater this year.

It's quite possibly the case that hundreds of thousands of people are going to miss out this year. And of course those that get tickets are happy, and those that miss out blame the system somehow - but some people have to miss out if there's too many people wanting to go.