I watched the debate on my laptop fed off my home wireless network on cable modem. I noticed no problems...

Wow, Wilson, you're the first. Alex tried on four different computers in two or three different places. Others have complained as well. You got lucky, congrats.

The longest mine worked was 20 minutes at one stretch. I saw all of Obama and made it to Edwards' first question, but didn't get the answer. It was in and out from there on.

Will this forum be available as a DVD from Amazon.com for a mere $24.95? Maybe it will be re-played on cable as a pay-per-view product? Will it be available for us to download from iTunes for $11.95?

(If we are in the middle of a Hoosier cornfield on dial-up, can the download be completed before the new President is sworn in in January 2009?)

Screw "technology" --- with all those capitalist geniuses involved in all the big Fortune 500 communications companies, there's got to be some way that MTV/Logo/Viacom/CBS can take their cheapskate decision not to buy adequate bandwidth and turn it into an incoming revenue stream for them ... obviously, there is plenty of bandwidth available when it comes to money flying out of LGBT pockets and into the bank accounts of the fat cats.

I think I'm with you on this one, Allen. Who needs technology when you have sex?

My line was great...but I have a very high speed connection. :) Not one bit of problem with the feed.

I watched at home for an hour with no problems except for occasuinal "buffering" breaks.

(Very few and never a disconnect).

The went into local community center where a few people were watching on a couple of PCs without problems - except for thos occasional "buffering" breaks

I was really annoyed by how difficult it was to locate the link to watch in the first place though

Jerame, thanks for this post! You've shed light on a whole new aspect of the story -- I love the "gay geeks" angle (where identity and technology collide ... )

Well, buffering breaks are better than what I experienced last evening, but seriously, buffering breaks are really inexcusable too. How is it "live" if by the end of the forum, you're 10 minutes behind (or more) because of those buffering breaks?

No, for an event this big from companies as large as this, nothing but a smooth, error-free connection is acceptable. Of course, the stream being Windows media doesn't help much either. There are much more efficient streaming protocols out there.

I'm glad to find that there were many who were able to view it uninterrupted. I think it's amazing how different the experiences were. I have a great cable modem connection and rarely have the kind of streaming problems I had last night.

OMG Trying to watch it last night was horrible. The video kept stopping and starting and restarting and skipping. Ugh. I was so mad at the computer by the end of it, it was hard to remember who'd actually done well. We really missed a lot of Hillary's answers and I had to watch it back later today.

I was lucky enough to be at Uncle E's in Bloomington where they showed it live.. to a nice sized crowd of total political geeks. Of course, HRC has had a presence down there all summer working on ENDA and the Matthew Shepard acts.

If I'd been at home, I'd have had no access to this historic event. So in that I echo, Jerame's protests. Why couldn't MSNBC cover this, esp for the millions of gays BETWEEN the coasts?

It would have been great to see VIACOM-owned MTV (one of the more gay-friendly networks) simulcast the event, so more of the country could have watched on TV, rather than online. We're lucky to have LOGO on Comcast here in Washington, but if I had to sit through a laptop broadcast, I think my head would have hurt even more than it already did watching on television!