Just wondering whether iPlayer Desktop and iPlayer streams are fed from same back end systems? I download several GB a night, much of it from BBC, to view when awake (not always in the day!) and I know your post was timed after 2300 and before 0000 (one of the times when the scheduler facility in iPlayer Desktop allows off-peak downloading to be enabled) but it's just a thought...

yep they play fine.It is a pretty hi spec dell precision laptop

It is definitely buffering. As I said if I watch stuff late at night then it is rare if ever I get the issue.

I thought that there was some additional traffic management but I didn't think Streaming was so heavily managed.

You'll need to wireshark it and check it's being put in to the correct queue.

See http://community.plus.net/library/faults/using-wires...

Hi ismoore999,

We are not seeing an increase in such reports. You indicated it started a couple of months ago, can you be a little more specific on roughly then this started?

Can you confirm if you are connecting wirelessly or wired?

If wirelessly, have you tried wired?
As you are using a Dell, I would recommend force disconnecting from wireless as you do this test.

Do you have a ticket number from reporting this or a username I can look at, to see if we can locate anything obvious.