General or Technical forums, I would have thought.

that "index" page does contain a video that won't play here.

The URL is the page in which the stream is embedded. I don't think the site is rubbish. Azteca is one of the biggest media companies in South and Central America.

In reply to a post by timfoster:

Ah me too now. I think it's because of the program being shown. Usually it's fine.

As of the timestamp of this post, it's streaming fine for me (South Oxfordshire, ISP is IDNet).

Peak speed of stream is about 230KBps, according to the iMac's activity monitor.

Maybe your ISP has poor routing to South America?

For info:

traceroute www.azteca.com
traceroute: Warning: www.azteca.com has multiple addresses; using 92.122.126.217
traceroute to a1479.g.akamai.net (92.122.126.217), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  www.asusnetwork.net (192.168.1.1)  0.543 ms  0.251 ms  0.197 ms
 2  telehouse-gw4-lo1.idnet.net (212.69.63.98)  19.348 ms  19.807 ms  19.468 ms
 3  telehouse-gw6-gi4-400.idnet.net (212.69.63.246)  19.430 ms  19.123 ms  19.247 ms
 4  telehouse-gw5-gi4-400.idnet.net (212.69.63.245)  19.269 ms  19.359 ms  19.278 ms
 5  gi4-42-75-idnet.bdr-rt3.thdo.ncuk.net (80.249.97.109)  20.015 ms  19.467 ms  20.230 ms
 6  * 195.66.236.168 (195.66.236.168)  26.773 ms  23.390 ms
 7  a92-122-126-217.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (92.122.126.217)  19.551 ms  20.033 ms  19.947 ms

Also working fine here, PlusNet 20:59

Have you tried streaming from any other site? That might determine whether the problem was with your connection or just the one site.

Streams at 1800kbps (225KBps) here on Plusnet.

Not a live feed though.

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Not a live feed though.

So it isn't... didn't notice that

Shouldn't matter though? Either the link is fast enough or it isn't...

Shouldn't matter though? Either the link is fast enough or it isn't...

Live streaming tends to have modest buffer, if it's saved content the download can whizz ahead of where you're at and get over any blips without affecting playback.