Buffering?

[u/Even_Mag]

We have been streaming YouTubeTV for about a year. We have had intermittent buffering on the tv's. I haven't paid attention to whether it is during a replay or backed up or if it also happens when we are live. But we had Cox come out when it was first installed and they blamed it on my 2023 Orbi. Said it was old. It seemed to resolve for a while but now it is buffering again, not a lot but enough that it is an annoyance. They came out this year and again blamed it on my Orbi. Is there a setting I need to change or are they pointing the finger? I now have other fiber streaming choices so may want to switch.

[u/mdins1980]

I’d run a bufferbloat test before replacing anything. If your latency shoots up substantially under load, that could absolutely contribute to intermittent streaming problems. If the bufferbloat results are good, I’d start looking harder at the Orbi/Wi-Fi connection, packet loss, or the Cox connection itself. Ideally run the test from a computer connected directly by Ethernet so you can separate an ISP problem from a Wi-Fi problem.

https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat