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| 1425363 | 2016-09-04 22:33:00 | Just wondering are any other Spark customers having ongoing issues with youtube, pausing/buffering . Especially bad this weekend . I know the issue isnt at my end as Lightbox streams perfectly, full screen. |
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| 1425364 | 2016-09-04 23:13:00 | Just wondering are any other Spark customers having ongoing issues with youtube, pausing/buffering . Especially bad this weekend . I know the issue isnt at my end as Lightbox streams perfectly, full screen. Fibre? 30mbps/100mbps, ADSL? VDSL? I've had no problems with buffering ever on spark 100mbps fibre. THe only buffering I've every received was lightbox on my htpc - but that was CPU related not network. |
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| 1425365 | 2016-09-04 23:20:00 | Internet Connection is irrelevant, as other streaming provider (lightbox) has zero issues. ADSL2, 9Mbs Im not even sure if its buffering. Will just pause/stop part way in . It doesnt allways happen , but was particularly bad this weekend. I resorted to downloading YT vids & watching them offline this weekend. |
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| 1425366 | 2016-09-05 07:24:00 | Yep same here. But I've had speed issues since buying a couple of those powerline adapter things. Or it could be with the all you can eat plan with Spark. | sk69ersnz (13476) | ||
| 1425367 | 2016-09-05 08:10:00 | Well kinda, see you mention you're syncing ADSL2+ at 9mbps, so it's still plausible the issue is at your end, though a "1080p YouTube" video should be ~4mbps, so it *ought* to be fine. Lightbox may have done some different connection-detection and set the video to play at 480p / 720p instead, subsequently using a lower bitrate? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1425368 | 2016-09-05 22:22:00 | Well kinda, see you mention you're syncing ADSL2+ at 9mbps, so it's still plausible the issue is at your end, though a "1080p YouTube" video should be ~4mbps, so it *ought* to be fine. Lightbox may have done some different connection-detection and set the video to play at 480p / 720p instead, subsequently using a lower bitrate? Lightbox I run full screen (its not 480 :) ), YT I run in the small windowed format : the YT vid is maybee 1/5 of the screen Some YT vids will play all the way though without issue, then the next might be almost unwatchable with so many pauses/buffering I often give up & just download the YT clip |
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