The problem was definitely on Apple's end. Akamai will scale up or down with traffic load across their CDN. Other Apple events have streamed fine in the past.
Leave it to JavaScript to ruin the day. Kevin On 2014-09-10, at 10:58 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I just waited until later last night and played the archived version. Worked > perfectly fine. That said, the press was full of notes about the live stream > failures so it wasn't just a particular ISP or user. I poked at the page and > the video stream actually was served from a machine named > p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net which is a DNS alias to > a11.w16.akamai.net. So, in reality, Apple probably just had one or two origin > video servers feeding Akamai and all the users were hitting Akamai. Issues > probably lived somewhere in Akamai's network unless Apple somehow botched the > video feed on their origin servers. CultofMac claims it was a problem on > Apple's end where they had embedded a live blog on the video page making it > uncachable so the Akamai network couldn't do its thing. > > http://www.cultofmac.com/295132/apples-pitful-attempt-live-blogging-crashed-event-video-feed/ > > CB > > On 9/9/14, 9:38 PM, The Believer wrote: >> Too many people tried to connect world wide and thus created a huge >> bottleneck. >> >> From The Believer. . . >> . . . what if it were true? >> ancient.ali...@icloud.com >> >> On 9/9/2014 6:14 PM, David Tanner wrote: >>> I am guessing much of your problems were with your internet connection. I >>> had almost no problems and was streaming on my work network with a iPhone 5. >>> Perhaps your internet connection is more of a problem than the internet or >>> Apple??? >>> >>> s >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg >>> Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:36 PM >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: What a disappointment. >>> >>> Hi! >>> Have some coffee for instance. >>> /A >>> 9 sep 2014 kl. 19:33 skrev BobH. <long.c...@virgin.net>: >>> >>>> I soon gave it up too, moved stuff about instead. Found it didn't fit, >>>> so put it back and came on here instead. >>>> >>>> RobH, might go do something else yet. >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Anders Holmberg" <and...@pipkrokodil.se> >>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 6:15 PM >>>> Subject: What a disappointment. >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi! >>>> I am trying to watch the apple live stream. >>>> Can't hear a thing. >>>> Well sometimes i do but i guess the pressure is so high that the video >>>> is choppy on my ipad and mac. >>>> Frustration grows! >>>> /A as angry. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
