It is NOT down to internet speed

[eFestivals]

3 devices running side by side, 1 on Google chrome with 6 tabs open but none connecting to holding page.

2 iPads on same wifi with 6 tabs open on each all on holding page.

Coincidence?

Of course there's luck but it is not the only factor imo

and yet you only have a guess for your opinion, whilst nothing of that opinion is backed up by any technical facts.

I've yet to see over many years any claim of "doing this is better" where luck could not be the reason why it was better.

If it wasn't merely luck then there would be a technical reason for why a particular set-up was better - and yet there are no technical reasons.

But people will continue to believe getting lucky is them being special, because that gives them a warm fuzzy glow inside.

(... probably just before they then go on to slagging off welfare claimants as scroungers, apart from anyone they know personally who claims welfare who they know aren't scroungers ).

Edited October 6, 2014 by eFestivals

[eFestivals]

A faster internet connection means you can refresh more often so surely that makes a difference?

yep, that does make a difference - but any difference is very small, ultimately. Even on an old dial-up connection the page would load very fast, because there's nothing big about the page to download, and most of the time is spent waiting for the request to send and come back, and not for the download on the last little bit of the connection.

[ghandi]

it just pure luck. I have in the past gone to work and used 7 different PC in out computer bank and only got on the details page once and then been kicked off ( last year) and this year I decided to stay at home on my one ( slower) PC, still no luck, BUT my friend has got though two out of the last three years on his home PC and another friend on the other year, again at home on his home PC, we must just be lucky I guess that over the last 6 years we've got through, the more the merrier makes it easier is our mantra, I don't go for all the techno babble.

[FuzzyDunlop]

I've got BT infinity @ 75mbps but got nothing on my PC not even a holding page. We also had 2 iPads going and had as many holding pages as we wanted off the same wifi

It's all about your browser imo

Safari > Chrome

Well my mate on a macbook using safari on a 70mb connection got nowhere.

I got through using Chrome with Sky Broadband 18mb.

I'd say its just luck. For every story of

"Virgin broadband failed"

"Safari was better"

"3g was better"

"Only people in the South could buy"

There is someone who gets through with the opposite experience

Edited October 6, 2014 by FuzzyDunlop

[Blue Jay]

Even though speed doesn't help, presumably having a low ping could be helpful?

[eFestivals]

Even though speed doesn't help, presumably having a low ping could be helpful?

not really.

Virgin Media lines are dreadful for ping speeds compared to other options, but there doesn't seem to be VM users complaining they did worse for tickets than other people.

The milli-seconds difference that a slow ping speed would make would be too minimal for anyone to notice an effect from, much in the same way that a slow connection isn't noticibly different to the user than a faster one.

[Sawdusty surfer]

(... probably just before they then go on to slagging off welfare claimants as scroungers, apart from anyone they know personally who claims welfare who they know aren't scroungers ).

Nicely put

[jeffie]

(... probably just before they then go on to slagging off welfare claimants as scroungers, apart from anyone they know personally who claims welfare who they know aren't scroungers ).

Respect for this too

[Funkyfairy!]

Pure luck, nothing more , nothing less.... And I for one still cannot believe my luck

I may never win raffles, or anything on a scatch card, and that's ok because this year I cashed in all my luck in one go getting tickets

Yep I'm happy with that :-)

[frostypaw]

I think it's only further proven to be luck in that we have fibre optic fanciness and out of the 10 previous times i've been who's got in 9 times - this time however no luck, mine were got by a mate who lives in london and has never seen the booking page before

Thank god he still bothered trying tbh saved the day

[sheffieldlady]

Brought a house since the last Glastonbury ticket sale. Gone from super quick fibre optic to crappy internet. It's just luck

It doesn't matter if you're using the 3G/4G on your phone, hooked up to a fancy server, wifi etc. Nor does it matter what browser you use, it really is just luck. I think we all like to believe what we do has a way of getting us tickets - sadly, it doesn't!

[sheffieldlady]

Saying that, I did where the same lounge trousers for both the coach sale and main ticket sale... maybe it was those that aided my luck.

[Sawdusty surfer]

Saying that, I did where the same lounge trousers for both the coach sale and main ticket sale... maybe it was those that aided my luck.

I think you may have cracked it.

I suggest that anyone that got through last Sunday places the 'Lucky Pants' that they were wearing at the time in a sacred box and leaves them in there, unwashed, until next ticket day.Guaranteed tickets for evermore

[mrfunk]

Plus using more than one pc ;-)

[eFestivals]

Plus using more than one pc ;-)

that only makes a difference if you're wearing special pants.

[miniand]

A faster internet connection means you can refresh more often so surely that makes a difference?

It is surely more to do with refreshing at the right time... If a spot on the system is due to open in say, 50 milliseconds and your super fast broadband connects you in 25 milliseconds you are not going to connect. A slower connection might be just right in that situation...

[flyingdog]

Complete pot luck.

We did not get tickets in main sale last year but luckily did in resale on my work laptop on wifi using Chrome

This year

I had IE on my network computer - nothing

Chrome on my work laptop on wifi - nothing

Very old IE on work laptop - got a page and tickets

Friends who got lots of tickets last year didn't get anything although we got their tickets for them

Other friends did not get a sniff but their mom on holiday in Spain got them for them.

[tweed1981]

If it wasn't luck anybody who wasn't on a super fast connection wouldn't stand a chance and we know that isn't how it goes down.

My own personal theory is you have to be lucky twice, I think some attempts are initially blocked/redirected etc and stand no chance of getting through.

Others get through to the correct holding page and then its a case of refreshing until hopefully you get through to book.

[amfy]

A faster internet connection means you can refresh more often so surely that makes a difference?

I have said this before but it made perfect sense to me when another poster put it this way......

Its like trying to find a parking space by driving round and round the block. Whether you are in a souped up formula one racing car, or crawling round in a clapped out Robin Reliant, you will get a space if you are passing when one becomes free. The faster car can speed up its chance of missing a space, as much as it speeds up its chances of finding one.

what has increased my chances? In 2005 I missed out. In 2007 I was lucky, in 2008 I started helping other random people, from here, from work, anyone who said to me 'So how do you get Glastonbury tickets?', anyone who wailed on here or fb that 'they weren't getting a sniff of a booking page' - I helped if I could. - & I carried on being lucky, until this year when my luck ran out.

...

.but that was when it all came back & no less than 3 of the people I'd got a booking page for in the past, got one for me.

yes networks do improve your chances. I am not incredibly popular. I do not have a 'Glastonbury crowd' - but over time, I have increased my chances of luck.

I honestly think that's he only thing that you can do - work on increasing your network. Nothing to do with computers.

[storm]

Well my mate on a macbook using safari on a 70mb connection got nowhere.

I got through using Chrome with Sky Broadband 18mb.

I'd say its just luck. For every story of

"Virgin broadband failed"

"Safari was better"

"3g was better"

"Only people in the South could buy"

There is someone who gets through with the opposite experience

This^^

coach sale I got through on chrome using manual refresh (one window, no other browsers trying)

Main sale I got through on IE using auto refresh (the chrome manual refresh didn't connect once that time)

Just luck nothing else

Edited October 7, 2014 by storm

[frostypaw]

If it wasn't luck anybody who wasn't on a super fast connection wouldn't stand a chance and we know that isn't how it goes down.

My own personal theory is you have to be lucky twice, I think some attempts are initially blocked/redirected etc and stand no chance of getting through.

Others get through to the correct holding page and then its a case of refreshing until hopefully you get through to book.

total nonsense sorry. that's just conspiracy inspired bollocks, there's just one holding page and the connection speed makes sod all difference

there is literally zero evidence to back up what you're claiming

[natdan73]

I personally think its a combination of a number of different things:

Not using Internet Explorer

Very fast internet

Being connected via Ethernet

Having a clean installation on your PC(s)

Being well prepared - all data to be input into a document ready to copy and paste

Having lots of friends trying at the same time

Having as many windows open as you can manage

F5, F5, F5 (although it doesnt appear to work with Google Chrome running in Windows 8.1)

IPad as a backup

I have managed to get tickets for 10 years now

Only once have I needed to revert to the re-sale

[eFestivals]

you missed "wearing special pants" from your list.

[tweed1981]

I tried for the coach on Wednesday just to see how it went, I tried on my MacBook via my home broadband. I got instantly through the holding page, whenever I hit f5 I got an instant refresh on that page until after about 3 minutes I got through to the booking page, put just my reg in and got through the payment but left it there as it was simply to get a feel for Sunday.

Come Sunday I had the exact same set up with the MacBook as well as a desktop tethered to my mobile via 3G.

The MacBook spent most of the time with a blank screen and whenever I hit f5 it took ages to reload, the desktop refreshed instantly on the holding page and I eventually got through to the booking page and got tickets.

Why would the MacBook via the same connection behave so differently to how it did on Wednesday?

***edit, this is in response to the post a few up

Edited October 8, 2014 by tweed1981

[billum]

I personally think its a combination of a number of different things:

Not using Internet Explorer

Very fast internet

Being connected via Ethernet

Having a clean installation on your PC(s)

Being well prepared - all data to be input into a document ready to copy and paste

Having lots of friends trying at the same time

Having as many windows open as you can manage

F5, F5, F5 (although it doesnt appear to work with Google Chrome running in Windows 8.1)

IPad as a backup

I have managed to get tickets for 10 years now

Only once have I needed to revert to the re-sale

The only things that are true here are:

Being well prepared - all data to be input into a document ready to copy and paste - coz you can get a timeout if you're not fast enough (we did)

Having lots of friends trying at the same time - because 6 / 1,000,000 is better chances than 1 / 1,000,000

F5, F5, F5 (although it doesnt appear to work with Google Chrome running in Windows 8.1) - even this is debateable, but probably helps beyond the 20 second auto-refresh

Rest is bollards I'm afraid and you'll find tales in this very thread to disprove them

As long as you're trying to connect to the right place then it's the LUCK OF THE DRAW - amazing how reluctant people are to believe it's just chance