bbc or me at fault?

in an attempt to avoid the wedding I tried:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra/programmes/genres/c...
and get Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error.

Chromium, IE8, IE9 and firefox all have problems with lots of links suggesting the BBC are using an incompatible means of compression.

I get similar with FireFox on Linux. The Epiphany browser works OK though.

Try http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra/

Virtually all links off that page fail for me.

My thought was someone came up with a quick wheeze for saving bandwidth for the wedding and used your browser to check his coding.

I have installed Epiphany and it doesn't error but doesn't finish displaying the page.

i guess i'll have to wait until after the wedding.

Parts of BBC Online is down

11.30am � BBC Statement: "We are experiencing some technical issues with BBC Online due to the sheer weight of traffic which may cause the site to be slower than normal in some cases."

11.13am � We are experiencing some technical issues with BBC online. We're investigating and will update when we have more information.

Content Encoding Error with FF and Vista. Beeb news site taking an age to load.

Same here with Opera plus Sky bb LLU. Most if not all BBC websites are hardly loading at all. Or if they do they take an age.

If you wanna check the live wedding footage out like i did and find you cant get to it via Iplayer. Youtube have a live stream of it and there servers are handling it abit better.

http://www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel?feature=yoodle

Blackmesa8

I resorted to the telly after 11am.

I was able to watch it via the BBC web site with no problem.

All back to normal (as of later yesterday afternoon).
It's highly probably the issue was just overloaded servers due to people watching the royal wedding online.

In reply to a post by Banger:

I resorted to the telly after 11am.

Why not use the telly as first resort?

In reply to a post by gomezz:

In reply to a post by Banger:

I resorted to the telly after 11am.

Why not use the telly as first resort?

Maybe they find the picture too big to take in the whole scene easily without turning their head from side to side?

Re the beeb site itself, half the sections on the Home Page disappeared, from both my setup and the bottom of the page from which one can add sections. Identical effect on my other machine which unusually has been on for a few days, with a different setup, so that ruled out a problem this end.

Fine again now, as others have said. iPlayer snippets were working at 5pm'ish.

I wonder if it was that poster causing the problem, and when they went to the telly instead the website recovered .

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by gomezz:

In reply to a post by Banger:

I resorted to the telly after 11am.

Why not use the telly as first resort?

Maybe they find the picture too big to take in the whole scene easily without turning their head from side to side?

Re the beeb site itself, half the sections on the Home Page disappeared, from both my setup and the bottom of the page from which one can add sections. Identical effect on my other machine which unusually has been on for a few days, with a different setup, so that ruled out a problem this end.

Fine again now, as others have said. iPlayer snippets were working at 5pm'ish.

I wonder if it was that poster causing the problem, and when they went to the telly instead the website recovered .

Not me guv.

Anyway, the rear view of Pippa is enough to want anyone freeze-frame!