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| Topic: | Netflix Buffering... This thread has 11 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday August 2, 2012 at 17:59 |
Mr. Stanley Elite Member |
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OK fellows... I tether my Kindle Fire (no laughing please!), to my T-mobile serviced phone. When I check the signal level it is excellent, but more often than not, Netflix in the middle of a show will go into a lengthy buffering mode.
What the heck is causing this?
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| Post 2 made on Thursday August 2, 2012 at 18:13 |
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On August 2, 2012 at 17:59, Mr. Stanley said...
OK fellows... I tether my Kindle Fire (no laughing please!), to my T-mobile serviced phone. When I check the signal level it is excellent, but more often than not, Netflix in the middle of a show will go into a lengthy buffering mode.
What the heck is causing this? Everything you posted above the question?!?!? Signal strength has nothing to do with your download speed. I don't know this for sure but I would imagine tethering working similar to bridging or repeating. The download speed would drop in half from what your 3G service provides. Have you tried a network speed test on the kindle while tethering?
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| OP | Post 3 made on Thursday August 2, 2012 at 18:40 |
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On August 2, 2012 at 18:13, drewski300 said...
Everything you posted above the question?!?!?
Signal strength has nothing to do with your download speed. I don't know this for sure but I would imagine tethering working similar to bridging or repeating. The download speed would drop in half from what your 3G service provides. Have you tried a network speed test on the kindle while tethering? No, but I will & it's 4G. Gracias!
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| Post 4 made on Thursday August 2, 2012 at 19:32 |
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Could be what you are watching. I getting buffering about once out of every three or so shows I watch on netflix at home with a wired connection. And I have noticed it happens very often when my daughter watches Disney shows on Netflix.
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| Post 5 made on Thursday August 2, 2012 at 22:06 |
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But TWC ads claim you won't have buffering....lol
I go to youtube and watch one of the music vids in HD, and I cannot go full screen due to the buffering. Too much info, small pipe.
TWC sucks....
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| Post 6 made on Thursday August 2, 2012 at 22:42 |
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+1 TWC sucks balls. Came home today, couldn't even open speedtest.net, connection was so bad. Reset the modem, speedtest gave 1.2 mb/sec, with massive drops in the middle. Can't even stream pandora or slacker.
But I've also had netflix streaming issues, even when the connection is good. Sometimes thier servers are slow. Or your local cell tower is seeing alot of traffic.
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| Post 7 made on Friday August 3, 2012 at 00:41 |
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Tmobile + 4G + netflix = slow
Its not necessarily your speed it is how stable it really is.
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| Post 8 made on Friday August 3, 2012 at 00:54 |
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Other causes are the carrier throttling you after a while (for being a data pig :)) or another user getting on the same cell using up bandwidth. Cellular companies advertise video and such for 4G networks but in reality hate users who actually try to use it!
Netflix is supposed to use adaptive bandwidth management where it has video encoded at different rates and switches between them. If you stop fully it means even its lowest bit rate setting is too high meaning you are way down in bandwidth.
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| Post 9 made on Friday August 3, 2012 at 10:25 |
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On August 2, 2012 at 22:42, DeuceTrinal said...
But I've also had netflix streaming issues, even when the connection is good. Sometimes thier servers are slow. Or your local cell tower is seeing alot of traffic. I tend to agree with this. I have a wired connection to Netflix through ATV and I occasionally have buffering issues as well. It seems to occur most often when I'm watching something during prime time, which I assume is when traffic is at its peak.
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| Post 10 made on Friday August 3, 2012 at 10:58 |
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I tend to agree with this. I have a wired connection to Netflix through ATV and I occasionally have buffering issues as well. It seems to occur most often when I'm watching something during prime time, which I assume is when traffic is at its peak. That is exactly how I explain it to clients. I get quite a few phone calls and questions about it. Now I just make it part of my "here is what to expect" speech with clients when walking them through a system. It isn't just Netflix, just about every streaming media service has buffering and/or availability issues during peak usage times.
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| Post 11 made on Saturday August 4, 2012 at 11:14 |
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You can go to Netflix and Settings and Manage Video Quality and adjust down your video quality. The default is Best
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| OP | Post 12 made on Saturday August 4, 2012 at 15:52 |
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On August 4, 2012 at 11:14, thursday said...
You can go to Netflix and Settings and Manage Video Quality and adjust down your video quality. The default is Best Thanks, I'll give that a try!
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