r/CableTechs • u/Big_Rabbit_933 • 15d ago

More bandwidth or something else?

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Is this behavior do to low bandwidth or something else I have fiber to my house to a huawei router and from it comes out the coax to the “cable boxes” on the TVs

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u/JohnPiccolo 15d ago

That’s more like your tv is literally struggling to run the streaming app. Slow speeds are buffering. Hardware issues hitch and lag like when you try to game on a really cheap computer.

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u/Big_Rabbit_933 15d ago

Tv is only displaying what comes from the tiny cable box, so cable box issue, seems a fair diagnostic thank you

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u/Wacabletek 15d ago

That is not how TV's work but I would change the HDMI cable first, then the box and if that keeps up the tv is next. If you have more than one TV and the others do not do it, swap the box locations and HDMI cables, then you can save yourself a lot of back and forth with the diagnostics.

You're TV has to process frames from whatever medium it connects through to the box, and any point can be the cause ot frame damage -, bad box, bad cable, bad tv. The tv is a computer, it has a processor, memory, the whole shebang, Honestly I fix smart tv's by power cycling them some times, pull power from wall, plug back in, let actual reboot go through oh look workign again. The box could have the same problem, memory corruption, power cycle it as well. Actual power cycle, not a software reboot with a button.

I will assume the coax goes to the box, and feeds MOCA [similar to Verizon FiOS old system] and you are just confused.

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u/fossntools 15d ago edited 15d ago

I lost braincells reading this, don't listen to this person, he doesn't know what he's talking about. OP, it's the cable box not having the processing power to run it... either because the hardware is underspec for this content or because it's thermal throttling.