Successful? Which ISP are you with?

[Istari]

On the surface this poll could be 'interesting' but on it's own it says nothing about whether one ISP is better than another. Quite aside from the different factors that also affect it (e.g. browser maybe?) without knowing how many people tried through each ISP then we have nothing to compare it to. e.g. if only 200 people got tickets with Plusnet, and 500 did through BT, then Plusnet would still be 'better' if only 250 people tried with Plusnet, and 2000 tried with BT.

[marcwilson87]

Virgin and I didn't even have a page open the whole time.

[leekstokie]

Got through with Sky Broadband

[jayney69]

Got through and I'm with PlusNet. Got 2 tickets, but that was about 6 minutes before they finally sold out. Had the payment page 3 times before that before crashing, Most of the time I just got a blank white screen.

[JamesU2002]

Just weird how my O2 3G was working but Plusnet Fibre didn't even load the holding page.

[drthingy]

didnt get thru on virgin. luckily alternative means were found!

[IbizaPrincess]

I got through on Sky broadband using wifi on my work laptop (as well as trying own mac laptop, kindle and phone), not sure if its relevant or it would affect it but my works server is in France?

Is it sad ive already updated my signature???

[smudger]

I'm on plusnet fibre and had tickets by 9.31.

Pure luck i think. Out of about 30 different people trying only I and one other got anywhere. Did seem like once you were in all of the browser windows connected and whist I had to hit back a few times at the end I didn't get completely thrown out at all.

Edited October 6, 2013 by smudger

[DTichborne]

Plus absolute numbers are irrelevant as more peple will be with Virgin/BT/Sky any way so you will get more successes through them

[eFestivals]

Just weird how my O2 3G was working but Plusnet Fibre didn't even load the holding page.

it's called "luck".

I suggest you get a dice and pick a number and roll it. Do it a thousand times or so.

Then you might understand how luck works.

[Jackmypie]

EE, didn't get in!

They worked fine for the resale in spring though.

[showmethestones]

Plusnet fibre, took a while but got there in the end, not sure why they would block any ISP

[eFestivals]

virgin 100mb line, I think having a fast connection helped

no it didn't.

Edited October 6, 2013 by eFestivals

[JamesU2002]

it's called "luck".

I suggest you get a dice and pick a number and roll it. Do it a thousand times or so.

Then you might understand how luck works.

Edited October 6, 2013 by JamesU2002

[eFestivals]

More to it than that I'm afraid. It does seems certain IP's were throttled.

yeah, cos sales channels always do things to stop themselves selling things.

Really, don't be so ridiculous.

Edited October 6, 2013 by eFestivals

[Buff124]

no, he still deserve to go to jail for his massive VAT fraud and him corrupting the legal process to keep him out of jail thru his family.

[JamesU2002]

yeah, cos sales channels always do things to stop themselves selling things.

Really, don't be so ridiculous.

[Craigston]

1,000,000 into 120,000 doesn't go

[Keithy]

it's called "luck".

I suggest you get a dice and pick a number and roll it. Do it a thousand times or so.

Then you might understand how luck works.

[JamesU2002]

OR, it could be the ISP's throttling the connection to Seetickets. Thinking it was a DNS attack, automatically detecting.

[JamesU2002]

It may indeed just be luck but at the same time it's interesting that my iPad, for instance, would not get to the holding page on BT Broadband. Flicked to 3G - holding page all the time. Flicked back to Broadband - nowt. Flipped back to 3G, holding page consistently.

I got the holding page far more regularly with 3G than my Broadband ISP. Even on the same laptop, I had one browser not connecting and one through every time. The difference? One browser was via TOR so the ISP was masked.

So yes it might be luck and just the volume of connections but I find it quite interesting.

[pedmills]

I love the idea of someone changing their ISP because they didn't get glastonbury tickets.

[eFestivals]

It may indeed just be luck but at the same time it's interesting that my iPad, for instance, would not get to the holding page on BT Broadband. Flicked to 3G - holding page all the time. Flicked back to Broadband - nowt. Flipped back to 3G, holding page consistently.

it's called LUCK!!!

I got the holding page far more regularly with 3G than my Broadband ISP. Even on the same laptop, I had one browser not connecting and one through every time. The difference? One browser was via TOR so the ISP was masked.

So yes it might be luck and just the volume of connections but I find it quite interesting.

It is luck and nothing else.

Once you have established a server session you're likely to have that session successfully refresh.

That's all there is to it.

[eFestivals]

More to it than that I'm afraid. It does seems certain IP's were throttled.

When one can constantly refresh on O2 3G and the page loads evertime vs a Plusnet fibre connection not loading the page once... More than luck involved.

No, just luck.

Once you get a server session established then that session is MUCH more likely to be re-served than 6you are to establish a new session with another browser or device.

Luck, and nothing else.

[Memory Man]

its probably more to do with the fact a higher proportion of efestivals users are virgin customers, this could be for loads of reasons. many students use virgin in the big uni towns for example