Here's my email from dataflix after last night:
I'm trying to keep my sense of humor here, otherwise, I'm going to go nuts. These away games are going to kill me. As you know there are two parties involved. Us here at DataFlix and the folks at UND who are on site doing the encoding, setting up audio etc. Complicating the matter is that we are doing two simultaneous webcasts right now....women's basketball and men's hockey.
I do have good news though. We are confident we've been able to eliminate the buffering issues, so let me know how it goes tonight if you are still watching.
I know this has been really frustrating for you as it has been for us. We do live stuff all the time, but we usually do it ourselves. When we get others involved who are not as familiar, we can have problems.
I do appreciate your patience and I know it's running thin. Games at the Ralph should be pretty wired in since we done so many at this point. But the away games are still a bit tricky especially if they haven't done a webcast from there yet.
As I promised in the past, we'll refund your money even at the end of the season if you want.
Don't know whose end is responsible for making the webcast bright and "colored", I assumed, after St. Cloud, it was a camera/equipment/arena lighting issue, but after last night, when the webcast magically found the right settings to show a bright picture with colors immediately after the game ended, who knows who was responsible for the dark grayscale images and echoing first period audio. The positive, it streamed well last night; don't know if that was because so many gave up or bandwidth really is no longer an issue.