Broadband speed for iPlayer

[Lu]

I'm giving up with a dongle because it's useless...

Have checked BT for broadband speed in my area and it's estimated at 3Mb - which doesn't sound a lot. Does anyone know if that's enough to watch iPlayer? No sign of the BT Infinity that they're pushing so heavily on TV in my area.

[El Pibe]

It's fine for non HD content.

[maxxi]

My payg 3G dongle works at less than 3MBps and is fine for non-HD stuff on iPlayer.

[Undisputedtruth]

Consistency of speed is more important than maximum speed. My connection is 22MBs and I was having issues with dropped connections and stuttering content on Iplayer. Thankfully my connection is rock solid. Last night I fell asleep just after watching football and Iplayer was still streaming when I woke up this morning.

So I'd carry out the following:

1) scan your machine for any spywares and virus

2) clear your browser cache

2) check if there are any technical matters with your connection

4) update flash (despite having a rock solid connection, last week my iplayer kept crashing and a latest update resolved my problem)

[Bic Basher]

I rarely use my 3 dongle for iPlayer, but I watched a 20 min programme on there this morning and it worked fine with no buffering.

[Undisputedtruth]

I used to wonder if my 22 MBs was fast enough for iplayer each time when the content stuttered. Quite easy to blame the connection for iplayer problems.