Uni server

[NickSimmonds]

Hi all,

I'm desperate to get a ticket in the resale! I've been led to believe that you've more chance of getting through to the payment on seetickets if you're using a "big" server (I'm not very IT literate). So, on the day of the resale, I'm thinking of heading in to my uni's library and hooking my laptop via Ethernet cable to the internet, with the belief that some how this might give me a better shot?

Any thoughts on this? apologies if this has been covered

Nick 

Edited April 2, 2016 by NickSimmonds

[incident]

Whether it helps you or hurts you or makes no difference whatsoever is going to be down to too many variables to tell ahead of time, but in the specific case of a University network I'd definitely lean against it.

I work at a large University. For the sale in October, I used my PC at home, and was also connected to my University Office PC via Remote Desktop. I think its reasonable to assume that a small number of staff were doing similar, and that a very large number of students were also trying to use the University network - especially those who live in halls.

My home PC consistently got the server busy message for the first 10 minutes, and then got through about 10 minutes into the sale.
My University PC never got close - most of the time, I didn't even get as far as the "server busy" message, just stopped on an empty white screen.

My assumption is that this happened because all Internet traffic from the University network goes through a Gateway, basically meaning it goes though a single point, to connect to the outside world (that's massively simplified but broadly accurate). There's at least a couple of ways this could be problematic, not sure which applied in this case or if it was something else entirely, but basically - the seetickets servers could be seeing hundreds or even thousands of connections a second all from the same address and treating it as something they need to protect themself from. Or it might not even get that far - the Gateway/Firewall/Proxy on the University network could blocking the connections before they even leave the institution for similar reasons - a site going from almost no traffic to getting constantly hammered by hundreds/thousands of PCs, phones, etc in the space of a few minutes has to be considered suspicious.

[Girlwiththemostcake]

I got my resale tickets on a train using the East Coast wifi two years ago. Straight through. Couldn't believe it. This year I got my tickets on my phone using 3G. I'd stay home if I were you.

[Migraine]

I spun up four virtual machines on Microsoft Azure and none of them got through. The connection makes little difference it's just down the luck of draw of requesting a page when the server is ready to deliver one.

[ghostdancer1]

no, if you have any sort of bog-standard internet at home, it will probably be exactly the same.last year i actually got through on 3g using my phone, my relatively good home internet didn't get a sniff.

the speed of your connection makes almost no difference generally.

it's basically complete pot luck.

[stuwilky]

I used to believe this was the case, having succesfully got tickets using the super JANet network for a number of years.

Ive not got a sniff the last couple of times and have had my ticket secured through a combination of 3G/4G and a friend in the hills of Shropshire! 

More coming to it being luck!