For those who got tickets....did you refresh or not?

[LintonG]

Interested to see if those who got tickets did so without refreshing their browser?

I tried to resist, but ended up bashing F5...... still didn't get any tickets.

[Padgey]

Left my phone to run it's course and it got in.

[a6l6e6x]

I refreshed (a lot)

[kalifire]

I found it extremely difficult not to refresh at every opportunity I got, even though I knew I'd probably be above 60 refreshes a minute.

[Lucy92]

I refreshed and got it 

[Sack truck]

My mate peppered the f5 and got his. Despite me saying no more than 60 in a minute. He was way more and it was fine ?

[Sack truck]

Not that I’m recommending that. I made sure I stayed under and had no luck 

[BlackZeppelin]

Refreshed probably 15/min

[northernringo]

If anyone who was successful doesn't want to miss out on Sunday's excitement then feel free to try for my group  

Send me a PM if you fancy trying out for us, thanks!

[danbailey80]

Do a poll

[Lakey91]

I had a few devices on the go. The first 2 that got to the holding page I had 1 on auto refresh and the other refreshing manually every second. Never got through on those.

The device that got through didn't even make it to the screen with the Wednesday and Thursday pink buttons at first. It just had a timeout error, so I gave up on that one and focussed on the other 2.

After 10 mins or so I hit F5 on the timed out one and it went straight to pink buttons - selected wednesday and I had the transaction complete within less than a minute.

So in my case, I think less refreshing was better. But who knows!

Edited October 3, 2019 by Lakey91

[Lakey91]

Just now, Lakey91 said:

 

OOPS

Edited October 3, 2019 by Lakey91

[mazola]

f5 every couple of seconds on a single chrome page, ad block turned off. got through after about 10 minutes

[dmedxb]

I did - spammed the absolute crap out of F5. 

[Slugworth]

Did anyone get tickets and then got back in for more?

[prestonmike]

3 minutes ago, mazola said:

f5 every couple of seconds on a single chrome page, ad block turned off. got through after about 10 minutes

does turning ad block off make any difference?  wouldn't have thought it would, might try switching it off on Sunday just in case it helps

[Crazyfool01]

slow and steady sorted it for me 

[faymondo]

Slow and steady refreshing.

Got in on iMac and all done by 5 mins !!

Went to the in-laws where i have never had a sniff since trying in 2011.

They have just changed from Sky to BT.

Its pure pot luck !!

[mazola]

8 minutes ago, prestonmike said:

does turning ad block off make any difference?  wouldn't have thought it would, might try switching it off on Sunday just in case it helps

No idea, just something I thought of about 5 minutes before it went live.

[TheGoodWillOut]

So was everyone refreshing the 20 second holding page? I got through to the pink page where you could select either Wednesday or Thursday, clicked those and back to the 20 second holding page 

[Calvin Klein]

I refreshed safari and chrome in the same laptop. Got in 10 minutes in

[midlifecrisis]

I had 2 chrome tabs open. One auto refreshing and 2nd F5ing - slow and stead. Both got through at the same time.

Yes was refreshing the white 20 sec holding page.

[MEGABOWL]

I did. Not too much though as was split between 4 devices

[bombfrog]

I think we need to be more specific about this.

When you hit f5 (in chrome) you get the loading spinner on the tab. If the spinner disappears immediately the you've with got the page or you know it's safe to refresh.

This never happened to me though. I have 200mbit Virgin broadband but each tab was taking about a minute to timeout. On the few occasions I got  holding page it was after 30 seconds of trying to connect. So, if I'd have refreshed after a couple of seconds it would never have worked at all.

So, to refresh immediately or wait? Open multiple tabs and give each one chance to timeout before refreshing? You'd need nearly 60 tabs to get anywhere near the throttle limit.

Anybody have any clue?

[parsonjack]

2 minutes ago, bombfrog said:

I think we need to be more specific about this.

When you hit f5 (in chrome) you get the loading spinner on the tab. If the spinner disappears immediately the you've with got the page or you know it's safe to refresh.

This never happened to me though. I have 200mbit Virgin broadband but each tab was taking about a minute to timeout. On the few occasions I got  holding page it was after 30 seconds of trying to connect. So, if I'd have refreshed after a couple of seconds it would never have worked at all.

So, to refresh immediately or wait? Open multiple tabs and give each one chance to timeout before refreshing? You'd need nearly 60 tabs to get anywhere near the throttle limit.

Anybody have any clue?

If your browser, or tab, becomes unresponsive it's better to close and reopen it to get a new cookie which will hopefully point you to a more responsive server than to continue waiting for a response that may never come.  How long to wait?  Who knows....but I'd say you're reducing your chances if you wait more than 30 seconds or so.  You could have had 30 more hits on another server in that time.