Service difficulty

Firstly, i have been very impressed by the quality of teaching at SA, so it is disappointing too say, i am experiencing a very poor level of service. br
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Video streaming on this DSL via YouTube- is a glitch free experience. However- trying too view the Tutorials here at SA- has been unsuccessful. br
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Video’s will continuously run- and freeze at certain points throughout. No amount of waiting or refreshing - appears to make any difference. br
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Update- I am now receiving service stoppage at 3 sec intervals- and it is begin to send me up the wall to be quite honest.br
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It is incredibly frustrating- and if things do not pick up- i am left with little choice other then to cancel this membership- which is something i really do not want to have to do.br
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I am on a new Macbook Retina- appox 3 months old- latest version of Chrome + Safari. br
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Clearly, this is a bandwidth issue- concerning speed of SA’s servers. Perhaps it is related to “FLOW player” which is in my experience an appalling application. I have experience same service difficulties with “FLOW PLAYER” on other pay service sites. br
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Why is SA- not renting Google to host the files via YOUTUBE- which is what the demonstration videos lead me to believe- would be the service provider.br
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Any assistance would be great appreciated. br
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Thankyou. br
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EDIT- I cannot use this service- at this point in time it is completely dysfunctional br
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Guess thats tonights time, which set aside- gone to waste then ! br
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We use Amazon S3 for delivery of Videos.br
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we have had some issues from Australia before. Amazon have recently set up a Aussy edge server which should have speed things up. br
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I have passed your info on to our tech guys who will look in to it and see if we can fix your issues.

[quote]BlueOnyx (17/08/2013)[hr]Firstly, i have been very impressed by the quality of teaching at SA, so it is disappointing too say, i am experiencing a very poor level of service. br
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Video streaming on this DSL via YouTube- is a glitch free experience. However- trying too view the Tutorials here at SA- has been unsuccessful. br
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Video’s will continuously run- and freeze at certain points throughout. No amount of waiting or refreshing - appears to make any difference. br
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Update- I am now receiving service stoppage at 3 sec intervals- and it is begin to send me up the wall to be quite honest.br
br
It is incredibly frustrating- and if things do not pick up- i am left with little choice other then to cancel this membership- which is something i really do not want to have to do.br
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I am on a new Macbook Retina- appox 3 months old- latest version of Chrome + Safari. br
br
Clearly, this is a bandwidth issue- concerning speed of SA’s servers. Perhaps it is related to “FLOW player” which is in my experience an appalling application. I have experience same service difficulties with “FLOW PLAYER” on other pay service sites. br
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Why is SA- not renting Google to host the files via YOUTUBE- which is what the demonstration videos lead me to believe- would be the service provider.br
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Any assistance would be great appreciated. br
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Thankyou. br
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EDIT- I cannot use this service- at this point in time it is completely dysfunctional br
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Guess thats tonights time, which set aside- gone to waste then ! br
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Hi there,br
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could you possibly post up the results of a speed test at www.speedtest.netbr
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We do have servers located in Australia so you should be getting a good speed in theory.br
Have you tried selecting the lower quality from the bottom right of the videos to see if you still get the problem?

I cannot stream starting today for some reason. br
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I have been a member (username: space_monkey) for 3 weeks now and suddenly today I can no longer stream any videos. I have tried restarting, clearing cash, loging in and out and still it gets stuck on the loading screen when I try to load your tutorials. I have tried IE9, Chrome, and Firefox. Please help!!br

[quote]space_monkey (28/08/2013)[hr]I cannot stream starting today for some reason. br
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I have been a member (username: space_monkey) for 3 weeks now and suddenly today I can no longer stream any videos. I have tried restarting, clearing cash, loging in and out and still it gets stuck on the loading screen when I try to load your tutorials. I have tried IE9, Chrome, and Firefox. Please help!!br
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Hi Therebr
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Our service is unchanged today, but from your description it could be your local edge server that may have been acting up . Are you being given an error message? and are you still experiencing the issue?br
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if so can you please let me know your location?