This is so very frustrating... Been looking a the broadcast since 6am, and all the time it's very very slow and laggy.
It last 10 seconds before getting disconnected, it take 30 seconds to rebuffer, and it take 50 seconds to realize it got disconnect and have to reconnect, and it take 1 minute for the flying soccer ball to finally reach to the guy's hand when he tried to catch it...
Then the music slowly fade away as if it's some disco/techno mix, from really slow sound to sudden small gaps in between the noise, the the objects suddenly become a shade on the screen, or ghost shadows. As if that isn't enough, the images exploded into pieces, and get stuck on the screen. Only little noises from time to time. Some other time, I would reconnect, the stream will work for 5 seconds, and get stuck with a women's face in front of the camera. Seems like in the reference point in the web cast, time don't exist, or moving really really slowly, sometimes even backward.
This is really bad!!! I spend most of the morning joking with Joe Ross about the stream. It's driving Joe crazy and driving me insane!
They've got to give more bandwidth to this broadcast! Mean while, I really have the urge to yell to people: "LOG OFF!!!". (Flash back of DSL commericals came to my mind...) This traffic jam is probably due to 2000 FIRSTers trying to see the practice round...
If only I can get a clear view, then my software will record the streaming, and I will share the video file with people.
On the plus side, I checked out the yahoo! broadcast of NASA, and it looks really really smooth. Hopefully we can watch some good finals on that.