supersonic feet

In my early-morning check of the football sites to see who Newcastle’s been linked to buying today, I came across an interesting error on Sky Sports’ site: they’d seemingly run out of either bandwidth or processing power and the server was busy.

Aside from the surprise at a site as big as Sky Sports getting too busy on a Monday morning and being unable to serve content, I found it most funny that they then try to sell you their TV/broadband package - the inference presumably being that with Sky Broadband the site would have loaded fine for you.

As I’m sitting in the office on a fat connection, it’s not a problem of speed on this end. That means they’re either giving preference to their own broadband users (fair enough, I suppose, but a bit of a hassle) or it wouldn’t actually make any difference. Either way, trying to sell me their broadband (which you have to buy their TV package to get) while their website is effectively broken doesn’t seem to me the best testimony of their quality Internet service.

Ho hum.

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