Cannot Retrieve Data Problem

[DasAbhirup]

I have been using Sopcast for quite a few years and had not faced any problem till a few days back. Whenever I play any channel, my sopcast says 'cannot retrieve data' and believe me, I have tried playing lots of channels. Also, my internet connect is pretty good.. so there should not be a problem with that. Does anybody have a fix for this?

Help would be very much appreciated.

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

Try this by Big Mac and post your results - http://forum.wiziwig.eu/threads/4580...63#post1468463

[DasAbhirup]

I tried what you said. It says 'Trace Complete' although 29 of the 30 hops said 'Request Timed Out'. Below is the result that I got :

1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

Well that show your not even getting off the starting blocks.

Who is your service provider...?

[DasAbhirup]

I am using a connection provided by the university where I live...
Should I contact the technical staff here then?

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

I am using a connection provided by the university where I live...
Should I contact the technical staff here then?

You can try but it looks like they have blocked all P2P traffic can you still use torrents...?

[DasAbhirup]

Yes.. I checked that.. Torrents are working fine...

[Big Mac]

It depends how they are blocking it (URL or IP or Packet Header Record or Port Blocking), but I have been able to get some viewers round this sort of problem by then installing HotspotShield and running that when they want to watch P2P streams

Should be worth a go

[DasAbhirup]

Thanks .. I tried using Hotspot Shield.. But it really messed up my speed and anyway, it was still not working..
Do you have any alternate solution to my problem?