Room to sway Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Nope. Sorry! Would be advantageous if you were playing games though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricci's Special Kebabs Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Shame, still a bit of advantage though as having my local laptops I can run 3 separate remote desktop on separate networks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majormajormajor Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Just checked one of my works remote desktop connections to the web, it's lightening quick.... It pings at 1ms compared to my home of around 30-60, will that provide any advantages? What are you pinging? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilson123 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Just checked one of my works remote desktop connections to the web, it's lightening quick.... It pings at 1ms compared to my home of around 30-60, will that provide any advantages? Nope. Sorry! Would be advantageous if you were playing games though! The good old days of 1998 and playing counter strike with a ping of 300. No wonder half the rooms hated me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbearne Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 I got through on the standard URL - I don't think the different addresses make a difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweed1981 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 The following is definitely geeky, but not techie. I was wondering what the odds/possibility of getting a ticket on Sunday really are. There is an article knocking about from 2013 I think, where see tickets discussed the 2014 sale and how the problems they encountered were because a million people were trying to access the site at once. Obviously that could have gone up since then but I'm assuming if they say a million people tried to book tickets that's actually a million attempts so if the average person has, say, 3 devices that's only 333k people? Not a million people also trying on 2/3/4 different devices? If it's a million individual people then you've got a 1 in 7.5 chance of getting one, but then because you can buy 6 tickets, if everybody buys 6 tickets that's only 22500 chances to get through so that's a 1 in 44 chance. Somebody please correct me as I hope those really aren't the odds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFestivals Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 The following is definitely geeky, but not techie. I was wondering what the odds/possibility of getting a ticket on Sunday really are. There is an article knocking about from 2013 I think, where see tickets discussed the 2014 sale and how the problems they encountered were because a million people were trying to access the site at once. Obviously that could have gone up since then but I'm assuming if they say a million people tried to book tickets that's actually a million attempts so if the average person has, say, 3 devices that's only 333k people? Not a million people also trying on 2/3/4 different devices? If it's a million individual people then you've got a 1 in 7.5 chance of getting one, but then because you can buy 6 tickets, if everybody buys 6 tickets that's only 22500 chances to get through so that's a 1 in 44 chance. Somebody please correct me as I hope those really aren't the odds. I don't for a moment believe the "a million people want tickets" thing. It's a nice line to spin people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweed1981 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Maybe a million hits, but that of course would be nowhere near a million actual people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFestivals Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Maybe a million hits, but that of course would be nowhere near a million actual people? Hits, pages, sessions (number of different browsers being used by all buyers, basically), and unique IP addresses are the normal things that are counted by web stat software. The hits and pages are likely to be well over a million. I'd be surprised if there's a million sessions onto See, which means that there defo wouldn't be a million unique IPs. I don't think the 'million' is related to anything that actually happens, it just sounds good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael eavis' beard Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 I don't think the 'million' is related to anything that actually happens, it just sounds good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanoL Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 If it's a million individual people then you've got a 1 in 7.5 chance of getting one, but then because you can buy 6 tickets, if everybody buys 6 tickets that's only 22500 chances to get through so that's a 1 in 44 chance. Somebody please correct me as I hope those really aren't the odds. You could be right on the first bit (but as Neil said, I don't buy the "million people" thing anyway. But definitely not 1 in 44 as: 1) not everyone is buying six tickets and; 2) in most groups a few people are trying, and when one person gets tickets, the others can stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonTom Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 What are you pinging? The computer next to him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morph100 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 The only advantage is more numbers trying on your behalf, unless we get a secret back door or DNS cheat :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musky Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Just checked one of my works remote desktop connections to the web, it's lightening quick.... It pings at 1ms compared to my home of around 30-60, will that provide any advantages? It might be if it were a straight race to the finish, but it isn't. It's a race where you have to arrive at a certain time and you don't know what that time is. If your request were to arrive within 1ms and a slot opened 30ms later you might wish you'd used the slower connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pbird81 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Has anyone used the check 4 change extension on firefox for this? Does it make sense or are there reasons that it would be a very bad idea? My plan is to hammer F5 on a tab I can see, and let that hammer away on another tab (I'm guessing it should stop if it actually gets in?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfunk Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 what happens if you hammer F%, and the order form appears, you don't notice it.... will you then just keep refreshing the order form? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubbz Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Has anyone used the check 4 change extension on firefox for this? Does it make sense or are there reasons that it would be a very bad idea? My plan is to hammer F5 on a tab I can see, and let that hammer away on another tab (I'm guessing it should stop if it actually gets in?) I use it for all ticket buying I do, its failed me only once and that was this sale last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlastoEls Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Has anyone used the check 4 change extension on firefox for this? Does it make sense or are there reasons that it would be a very bad idea? My plan is to hammer F5 on a tab I can see, and let that hammer away on another tab (I'm guessing it should stop if it actually gets in?) I used that in the coach sale and it kept going off with changes, but during the holding page - perhaps there was an ad or perhaps the auto refresh counter. I gave up on it, refreshed manually, and got through to the booking forms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billum Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 what happens if you hammer F%, and the order form appears, you don't notice it.... will you then just keep refreshing the order form? You definitely don't want this to happen - by all accounts you go back into the queue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilson123 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 You definitely don't want this to happen - by all accounts you go back into the queue Happened to me in 2013 a few times. I got onto ticket registration page but I was hitting F5 so much/ so quickly that I'd hit refresh before I'd realised. You just rejoin the masses in the queuing stage. Very maddening when you realise what you've just done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panasonic2011 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Ive got check4change and I did get on booking page on Thursday. If you highlight certain words or text on the holding page that realistaclly wont be on the booking page then it should not refresh anymore (shouldnt it???) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlastoEls Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Ive got check4change and I did get on booking page on Thursday. If you highlight certain words or text on the holding page that realistaclly wont be on the booking page then it should not refresh anymore (shouldnt it???) Good point - I highlighted the whole page so no wonder it kept going off. Just highlight a sentence or two of the holding page and get it going every second.. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panasonic2011 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Yes thats what I did. I think the Reg page appeared about 7.10 but not sure if this was check4change worked OR they had already sold out. Does anybody know exactly when they sold out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudger Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Good point - I highlighted the whole page so no wonder it kept going off. Just highlight a sentence or two of the holding page and get it going every second.. ? I had a number of pages refreshing every second on check4change, on a second pc, so I could concentrate on my main one.Highlighted the text up to the count down number (page will refresh in 9, 8, 7 etc.). However when it was all over the pages found the sold out page and didn't alert me, so won't be using it again. not sure why it didn't work, but it didn't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majormajormajor Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 that was brutal. didn't get past the holding page, and even then was on the holding page for about 10% of the time the tickets were on sale. the rest were timeouts. this is on various public IPs, 2 VPNs out of country, 2 mobiles, automatic page refreshes. even if you do everything possible to intelligently maximise your chances, you still may not get a a sniff. at the end of the day, it's luck! i hope everyone was successful! very happy i got a coach ticket on thursday, just depressed for my friends who missed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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