It's not long ago that I was boosting DAZN's streaming service for the Club World Cup games, complimenting how fast, sharp, and trouble-free I'd been finding it.
Of course, all good things must come to an end. For the past week, their stream has been unusably crappy for the live games, and I've been having to make do with short highlight reels only. Bah!
There are three likely reasons for this: 1) DAZN's capacity is getting stretched by increasing demand, as the tournament starts to attract more attention and excitement; 2) DAZN is deliberately degrading its free streams to try to goad people into paying for a subscription; or 3) It's just that the Internet in general can sometimes be a bit useless in my country of residence - to which I have just returned after a long 'working holiday'.
I suspect it's a combination of all of these.
Then again, it might just be that the Internet service at the two guesthouses I've been staying in has been particularly poor... (Although I appear to be the only guest at the place I'm in at the moment. And I don't think the manager - heavy though his TikTok addiction is - can be maxing out the bandwidth on his own!) I must hope that things may improve again when I finally return to my own home this afternoon.
[Well, thank heavens, things are again tickety-boo in the old homestead. Turns out the small but very touristy town I was staying in a few days ago has a notoriously ropey Internet service.
However, DAZN have been getting a bit grumpy about people enjoying their 'free stuff' too much. The annoying pop-ups goading you to subscribe have become a bit more frequent - as has the exasperating tactic of hiding the free content in amongst a whole bunch of paid options that appear identical. Moreover, I found a couple of times when I was being lazy, getting up even after the start of the 'late' game, and long after the 'early' one should have finished, and launching both streams to try to make sure I didn't lose either of them,.... well, they really didn't like that at all. The niggardly bastards started interrupting my feed every couple of minutes - or, even worse, resetting it to the end, forcing me to have to try to scroll all the way back to he point where I'd left off - and occasionally putting up dire warning messages that if I was suffering a terrible streaming experience, it was probably my own fault.... for doing something verboten, like using a VPN, or trying to keep open an expired stream, or using too many streams at once.
Oh well: what do you want for nothing - rubber biscuit??]
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