2011 Tickets... all down to your ISP

[trickydickie]

Tried for ages via my talk-talk ex tiscali broadband.. nothing

Logged into my work via VPN to give that route a try. Bingo, straight in.

I'm in North Merseyside. My work connection pops me out onto the internet in the midlands or maybe London.

Anybody know where the seeticket servers are ?

Nobody I know that's on a residential connection in this neck of the woods got anywhere near seetickets.

So I ended up getting tickets for 8 others in 4 different transactions

[Pinhead]

Thats interesting as I'm in Southport, North Merseyside - again, nothing via ISP for hours. Then try phone 3G connection - straight in!

[Kill]

3g users obviously bypassed all the bottle necks on routers at various exchanges. Will get myself a 3g dongle for next time.

[DanDan]

Im on Talk Talk in Liverpool too!!

Couldnt get on the damned thing until about 12! Still didnt buy any tickets though,

my friend had to get them.

Quite strange though, ive never had any problems with gettin them any other year

[Mr McJohnson]

Yeah I know, I was the first person to put this theory forward.

[Manager100]

Tried for ages via my talk-talk ex tiscali broadband.. nothing

Logged into my work via VPN to give that route a try. Bingo, straight in.

I'm in North Merseyside. My work connection pops me out onto the internet in the midlands or maybe London.

Anybody know where the seeticket servers are ?

Nobody I know that's on a residential connection in this neck of the woods got anywhere near seetickets.

So I ended up getting tickets for 8 others in 4 different transactions

[Pinhead]

Has been fine last two years. This year - not even a glimpse of the holding page after 9am, the next page I got up hours later was Sold Out. Must have refreshed 3 browsers, 3 different types, close to 2000 times in all that time.

[bubbsio]

I live in Somerset, of about 30 people I know who were trying for tickets in the area only 4 got through, this didnt include me. Fortunately this served most of our needs as we all help each other out but I'm pretty sure there were no particular areas blocked. It was luck of the draw pure and simple.

[seantizz]

I got through with ex Tiscali Talk Talk set up at about midday...

[EasyUserName]

3g users obviously bypassed all the bottle necks on routers at various exchanges. Will get myself a 3g dongle for next time.

[Toilet Duck]

3g users obviously bypassed all the bottle necks on routers at various exchanges. Will get myself a 3g dongle for next time.

[Bobs]

I'm in Maghull on Virgin Optimum, and i got through at least 60 times, piece of cake!

[4AssedMonkey]

I'm in Sheffield, have a Mac (so Safari) and have a BT line with Sky Broadband. It was busy and got some timeouts but got in within about an hour of trying.

[LennonMcCartney]

I also live in Liverpool, I had 3 computers, 2 phones and I was ringing(Which I got through to,only for the to tell me they are not taking phone bookings) I never got a ticket, despite trying from 8am

[Bradders]

Me and my dad were trying on the same connection, different laptops. He got through several times and I never had a peep.

[GlastoEls]

I was running one desktop PC using Safari (wired) and my MacBook (Safari, wireless). Both to my Virgin broadband and both were running approx. 9.5 Mb/s on speedtest.net.

Getting through was easy on the PC - I had my tickets by 915 - but the MacBook wouldn't load Seetickets whatsoever.

Bizarre.

[airds]

Me and my dad were trying on the same connection, different laptops. He got through several times and I never had a peep.

[trickydickie]

All interesting stuff.

Does Safari use a proxy ? I doubt the browser makes any difference unless it uses a proxy

Anybody have any luck with skyfire or similar comming in with a non uk ip address. Howabout a non uk VPN ?

My friend on a 'Three' 3G dongle connection couldn't get anywhere. However lots of reports of others with 3G success.

Me and my dad were trying on the same connection, different laptops. He got through several times and I never had a peep.

[modey]

I'm on the isle of man, got through at about half nine through my isp, Iphone 4 wouldn't get through at all

oh and the wife was on her laptop and never got through

Edited October 3, 2010 by modey

[ajknight7498]

I had my iPhone 4 BT 3G tethered to my macbook and i got through.

[prestonmike]

i live in manchester and have sky broadband through a BT line, had my tickets by 9.15, my mate was sat next to me on the same network using the same browser, didnt get through until 11.25, another mate sat next door, again on sky, couldnt get through at all, its all down to luck, i couldnt load the seetickets.com/g2011 page but when copied the queue page it loaded ok, just took a few refreshes

[Bort]

Have a satellite internet provider in the US and made it past the queue ONCE after over 3 and a half hours. This was after someone else reserved my ticket for me, so I tried to pay it forward for someone, but then got kicked back into the queue, then it sold out.

[trickydickie]

its all down to luck, i couldnt load the seetickets.com/g2011 page but when copied the queue page it loaded ok, just took a few refreshes

[rwamnep]

I'm in uni in Southampton. Had 1 laptop 3 browsers open with about 7 tabs throughout, once one opened they all opened. Once I had bought mine I went through each booking for people at home in Cardiff. None of which could access the site at all let alone get in the queue. Ridiculous system

[emme]

From Ireland got 26 tickets last year and 16 this year with a small local ISP. I dont like saying it -beacuse i know how some people are feeling- but i got through about 30 times quite easily.

I think the seetickets servers are in manchester (tracert 83.100.146.197)

Seetickets.com responds to your ISP's gateway and not individual computers. If one gateway is sending 10,000 request to seetickets and another ISP's gateway is sending 100, you know which one will be more "lucky"!