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TV on demand buffering
renluop:
I hope you will forgive me, should this be in the wrong board.
My FTTC connection is not the greatest, synching at ~2.4Mb/s, so even at peak traffic throughput I'd think adequate for IPlayer.
Last evening we were watching Bodyguard, but it was spoilt by the frequency of buffering. The connection from router to STB is wireless, and direct path, through walls, upper stramit board, lower block, is ~6 metres..
Is it usual over such a distance for enough speed to be lost, that buffering results?
chenks:
2.5Mbps ? are you sure about that?
or do you mean 2.5MB/s ? (note the b or B - quite important!)
2.5Mbps would be struggling to do any on demand without buffering occuring
parkdale:
H Renloup, My wireless system has also suffered for random buffering, but it is mainly due to network congestion, and or connected equipment.
My wireless system receiver is a TP link 4 port router, that feeds 1 television, 2 Panasonic recorder, 3 Oppo UDP 203, 4 Humax freesat recorder.
The Panasonic DVBT recorder can be really annoying at times, due to buffering. Yet the TV watching the same IPlayer progamme is not affected.
This is going thru 2 brick walls (1950's Bungalow) also 6m from transmitter (Fritzbox).
I have used this program in the past to map out best spots in the house (Free Trial).
https://www.tamos.com/products/wifi-site-survey/wireless.php?r1=google&r2=awd_tg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwuns3aLH3QIVgrHtCh327gDBEAAYASAAEgIX_fD_BwE
Other things to note are other neigbours wireless channel numbers, mobile phone apps come in handy for this, keep your numbers well away from theirs!
I use channel 13 @ 2.4Ghz and channel 100 @ 5Ghz.
Any numbers using the same or adjacent couple of channels, will suppress your signal :(
Hope any of this helps...
Robin
renluop:
--- Quote from: chenks on September 19, 2018, 03:02:11 PM ---2.5Mbps ? are you sure about that?
or do you mean 2.5MB/s ? (note the b or B - quite important!)
2.5Mbps would be struggling to do any on demand without buffering occuring
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Oops silly me, but put simply 24500kbps. :-[
jelv:
As your connection is so slow, I hope you are only trying to use standard quality and not HD. Even using standard quality it is likely that any other internet activity at the same time is going to cause issues.
--- Quote from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/speed_checker_online ---How fast does my internet connection need to be?
BBC iPlayer programmes stream at up to 5 Mbps or megabits (5000 kbps), depending on the quality. Our standard quality version is 1.5 Mbps (1500 kbps).
You’ll actually need a little more bandwidth than this to watch programmes on BBC iPlayer. If you think your internet connection is slower than expected, please contact your internet service provider.
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