Speed

[crapfrenchcars]

Been along to the festival 5 times before, and failed this year. I think of the bookings, they were from 4 different houses, in different parts of the country. I've never got through straight away or even within an hour, friends never seem to either. Do some of you always get through really quickly, and if so is that just luck? Or do you have tips or how to do so?

[Yesiamaduck]

You can improve your chances by increasing the number of server requests per minute, but the actual internet speed it's self is quite a small factor considering it's

(a) only loading a webpage

( you only need an accepted request from the server so if you get a response from the server, you get one, even if it takes a few seconds longer to fully render the page.

Latency applies a bigger factor than speed but even then it's so incredibly tiny that it's not even worth factoring in.

Basically the more requests you make to successfully 'handshake' with a server the more likely one of your requests will hit the server at a time when it's ready to accept new connections.

I just had IE open with facebook, e-festivals & drownedinsound at Glastonbury related pages to help pass the time and Chrome with as many tabs open as I can see on on row and the moment a circle stopped spinning I'd hit that tab and push f5 meaning I was making around 40 requests per minute, after an hour or so of trying I must've made around 3,000 requests at various stages of the process with at least 100 of these at the card payment page. It's still based on luck but statistically I had a greater chance of succeeding then someone who was refreshing 3 or 4 times a minute.

Edited October 13, 2013 by Yesiamaduck

[salvador wali]

You can improve your chances by increasing the number of server requests per minute, but the actual internet speed it's self is quite a small factor considering it's

(a) only loading a webpage

( you only need an accepted request from the server so if you get a response from the server, you get one, even if it takes a few seconds longer to fully render the page.

Latency applies a bigger factor than speed but even then it's so incredibly tiny that it's not even worth factoring in.

Basically the more requests you make to successfully 'handshake' with a server the more likely one of your requests will hit the server at a time when it's ready to accept new connections.

I just had IE open with facebook, e-festivals & drownedinsound at Glastonbury related pages to help pass the time and Chrome with as many tabs open as I can see on on row and the moment a circle stopped spinning I'd hit that tab and push f5 meaning I was making around 40 requests per minute, after an hour or so of trying I must've made around 3,000 requests at various stages of the process with at least 100 of these at the card payment page. It's still based on luck but statistically I had a greater chance of succeeding then someone who was refreshing 3 or 4 times a minute.

[Yesiamaduck]

So did you get a ticket?

[eoinca]

Prefer E's myself.

[swede]

Dirty, nasty drug, just sayin.