On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 04:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven@cb3rob.net> wrote:
I've had a recent experience of this. Some IPv6 CPE I was testing had a fault where it dropped out and recovered every 2 minutes - a transient network fault. I was watching a youtube video over IPv6. Because of the amount of video buffering that took place, and because the same IPv6 prefixes were assigned to the connection once it recovered, the youtube video kept playing. That was a great end-user experience and it was somewhat addictive to watch the PPP light go off and come back on while the video kept playing faultlessly.
thats primarily due to "partial http downloads" aka http status 206 rather than 202 where you can just specify at which offset in the file you want the httpd to start reading the file to you, most flash movie players, however, don't support this. connection lost = movie has to be fully reloaded.
There's a whole lot of speculation and no evidence in that statement ... as it said, it was faultless, so I very strongly doubt there was any restarting the stream.