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BBC iPlayer straining the Internet The success of the BBC's iPlayer is putting the internet under severe strain and threatening to bring the network to a halt, internet service providers claimed yesterday. They want the corporation to share the cost of upgrading the network - estimated at £831 million - to cope with the increased workload. Viewers are now watching more than one million BBC programmes online each week. The BBC said yesterday that its iPlayer service, an archive of programmes shown over the previous seven days, was accounting for between 3 and 5 per cent of all internet traffic in Britain, with the first episode of The Apprentice watched more than 100,000 times via a computer. At the same time, the corporation is trying to increase the scope of the service. It is making its iPlayer service available via the Nintendo Wii, allowing owners who are unable to stop playing in time for their favourite programmes to catch up with them later. Source: The Times, Thursday 10th April 2008
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