Comments on: I'm blocked!

By: Jason Cartwright

Jason Cartwright — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:00:56 +0000

The BBC network is ridiculously slow because we are pushing thousands of user’s requests through an ancient architecture that has been so overwhelmed as it make it completely unfit for purpose.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:59 +0000

I have on my desk a PC on the Siemens network and a PC on the BBC network. The Siemens one restricts access to anything considered frivolous and non-work related – so Facebook, flickr, MySpace, etc. (This site is considered OK, though.)
The BBC web access doesn’t block anything, and is far, far slower. Perhaps because everyone’s spending their time on the aforementioned frivolous sites?

By: Martin Belam

Martin Belam — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:11:55 +0000

You can look forward to finding out what state the BBC’s web access is in now it is entirely in the hands of Siemens. I got involved in a trial of the ad-blocking software. They say “Oh, it’ll save bandwidth and we won’t be exposed to potential malicious code and you are working so you don’t want to see any adverts anyway”. I say “So, I’m managing the user experience of a non-commercial web site and I don’t get to even see what commercial web sites are doing because you are blocking half the page for my own benefit. Way to go IT people”