Originally Posted by
Emporium
Just curious if there are presently any issues with bandwidth on the VOD server ?
I had a 2 friends mention to me that they can't smoothly stream any 4k movies, and that they buffer. Downloading them first and then watching them works fine. Both friends have fiber at home (1 is 1Gbps and the other is 1.5Gbps) and they are hardwired to their routers. They have also tried using 2 different VPN services connecting to 2 different servers. And no difference.
I tried it myself last night at 1:30am Eastern time (figured lower demand period - and I am on a different ISP than them), and tried to stream "Black Widow 4k version" and it was constantly buffering also. I did get a small stretch after about 2 minutes, where it was seemed to stabilize and work smoothly, but it was short lived. I even checked my firewall during this period and I was not even close to hitting the max on my bandwidth availability.
LiveTV and non-4k VOD are fine.
BTW: I am using my xrs4900, hardwired, and my 2 buddies are using Nvidia Shield using the wickedapk.
In my case, I was streaming the 4k version, but watching on a 1080p display, but that should not make any difference, since the downscaling is done on my buzz box with little effort.
Just want to get a feel on if it is a common issue...