Gamepass and Ntl

Lands Leaving

Just bought a gamepass today and I'm pretty unimpressed so far, it stops to buffer every few seconds.

I'm on ntl, have all the recommended system stuff etc. and 6mb connection speed on speedtest.com or whatever it is, so I've no idea why it's so crap. I mean I'm just watching total access, so during a game i bet its way worse.

Anyone else use it on ntl or have this problem?

tallaghtoutlaws

Lands Leaving wrote: »

Just bought a gamepass today and I'm pretty unimpressed so far, it stops to buffer every few seconds.

I'm on ntl, have all the recommended system stuff etc. and 6mb connection speed on speedtest.com or whatever it is, so I've no idea why it's so crap. I mean I'm just watching total access, so during a game i bet its way worse.

Anyone else use it on ntl or have this problem?

I went from eircom and now upc and both work fine. Arent NTL upc now?

Lands Leaving

Yeah they are. I'm pretty sure the gamepass itself is the problem, the connection speed is more than enough and everything else works fine, downloads, video sites etc.

tallaghtoutlaws

Lands Leaving wrote: »

Yeah they are. I'm pretty sure the gamepass itself is the problem, the connection speed is more than enough and everything else works fine, downloads, video sites etc.

Gamepass is working perfect for my house. Maybe run it at a lower resolution to see if it makes it any better

Leslie91

I have only 3Mb from UPC and Gamepass works great. I use the second highest kbps, 1800 I think it is. Roll on sunday night.

Must be an issue with Gamepass for you. Contact them they are helpful.

Lands Leaving

Yeah, they were pretty helpful, but could do nothing. Everything worked perfectly on my end after they got me to do speed tests and a trace, whatever that is! So they said that sometimes there are isolated incidents where it doesn't work.

Great.

Got a refund anyway, but I was looking forward to watching games

I wonder if its my computer, it has vista, which has been a pain since I got it.

Leslie91

Lands Leaving wrote: »

Yeah, they were pretty helpful, but could do nothing. Everything worked perfectly on my end after they got me to do speed tests and a trace, whatever that is! So they said that sometimes there are isolated incidents where it doesn't work.

Great.

Got a refund anyway, but I was looking forward to watching games

I wonder if its my computer, it has vista, which has been a pain since I got it.

I doubt Vista is the problem, getting the OS right for a provider is fundamental. Having said that I run XP. Putting off getting a new machine cos of Vista. Sorry to hear u cannot get it.

Utopia Parkway

I'm considering getting Gamepass (even though I think this is what NFL wants me to do after Sky losing a big chunk of coverage). Just wondering is your account limited to one computer or can you access it on different computers?

LuckyLloyd

Lands Leaving wrote: »

Yeah, they were pretty helpful, but could do nothing. Everything worked perfectly on my end after they got me to do speed tests and a trace, whatever that is! So they said that sometimes there are isolated incidents where it doesn't work.

Great.

Got a refund anyway, but I was looking forward to watching games

I wonder if its my computer, it has vista, which has been a pain since I got it.

That's a pity. Kudos to their support for admitting a fault on their end and providing you with a refund all the same.

Leslie91

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

I'm considering getting Gamepass (even though I think this is what NFL wants me to do after Sky losing a big chunk of coverage). Just wondering is your account limited to one computer or can you access it on different computers?

Multiple computers........

Lands Leaving

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

That's a pity. Kudos to their support for admitting a fault on their end and providing you with a refund all the same.

Yeah I was really impressed with their customer support. They emailed back in about 10 minutes despite the live support being really busy. Considering sky and the like leave you on the phone for hours it was fantastic! I've contacted them to ask if I can have a go with another computer (with xp) just in case, hopefully they won't mind me giving it a shot.

To anyone considering getting it, I would actually still recommend it, it looked great as far as all you can watch goes. Just a pity I'm an 'isolated case'!!

Oh and its multiple computers, but only one at a time.

Lands Leaving

Woo! Got it working. It was my bloomin computer! VISTA AAARRHHH!!

Anyways roll on colts - titans tonight.

kenmcguire

Did you go the whole hog for the season pass or are you taking things in chunks (month / week). Is there any footage available to watch via Game Pass on non-game days?

dougal

kenmcguire wrote: »

Did you go the whole hog for the season pass or are you taking things in chunks (month / week). Is there any footage available to watch via Game Pass on non-game days?

Yes - NFL Network is available live when there is no game on.
Also all games are available to view in the archive - last season is currently available.
Shows like Total Access are also available on demand in the archive.

DonkeyPokerTour

With Reduced Coverage from Sky can you now watch all games live or are the sky ones still blanked out?

Regards
Ian

kenmcguire

dougal wrote: »

Yes - NFL Network is available live when there is no game on.
Also all games are available to view in the archive - last season is currently available.

Sounds more of an interesting proposition. Have been watching NFL Network via Justin.tv during the week, quality reasonable but if there's archive footage in there as well I'm sold.

Really liking the look of RedZone TV as well.

Leslie91

DonkeyPokerTour wrote: »

With Reduced Coverage from Sky can you now watch all games live or are the sky ones still blanked out?

Regards
Ian

The games shown live on Sky are blacked out live on Gamepass. Pretty much as soon as they are finished you can watch them archived with no adverts too.