doobre:

 

I have a static IP and 900/300MGb connection, is that relevant to CGNAT

 

Static IP means no CG-NAT. Mb/s not MGb.

doobre:

 

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/live/national

 

Used this for testing. Been running fine for about 15mins and deliberatly saturating the connection at the same time. Can't get it to fault.

What's your internal network setup? What OS/Client?

RunningMan:

 

doobre:

 

"MGb connection"

 

 

now that would be fast.. 

RunningMan:

 

doobre:

 

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/live/national

 

 

Used this for testing. Been running fine for about 15mins and deliberatly saturating the connection at the same time. Can't get it to fault.

 

What's your internal network setup? What OS/Client?

 

I'm just a vanilla user ("nothing flash in our house"), windows Gb ethernet network, same old myrepublic router (Technicolor MediaAccess TG789MYRvac v2 HP), 4xnetgear switches, 4x win10 PC's, numerous media players.

When you posted about this same issue 6 years ago, you got a Kodi addon that resovled the problem for you. Does this no longer work?

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=151&topicid=224302 

RunningMan:

 

When you posted about this same issue 6 years ago, you got a Kodi addon that resovled the problem for you. Does this no longer work?

 

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=151&topicid=224302 

 

 

 

I switched to AppleTV a few years back, for streaming my local media, found that an android mediabox wasn't cutting it with hi-res files. though the ATV is connected with the same physical network as the Android was.

since then I have started using my old logitech squeezebox's with the logitech media server, and spread those around the house - all ethernet

But as before the tunein radio app on the desktop and logitech media server still buffering.

doobre:

 

RunningMan:

 

Chorus are not shaping your radio streams.

 

Again, if you provide some example URLs that you have problems with then others here can test to see if they also experiance an issue.

 

 

 

 

OK, for those who want to spend some of their time checking, here's some URL's

 

https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/groovesalad

 

https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/reggae

 

http://stream.radioparadise.com/aac-128

 

http://stream.radioparadise.com/mellow-128

 

http://stream.radioparadise.com/rock-128

 

https://tunein.com/radio/95bFM-950FM-s7160/

 

https://tunein.com/radio/Ambient-Sleeping-Pill-s190314/

 

https://mediaserv30.live-streams.nl:2199/tunein/-stream/hionline.pls

 

http://www.star104.net/stream/comedy-mp3.pls

 

https://cast4.my-control-panel.com/proxy/sleeprad/stream

 

https://95bfm.com/

 

http://mediaserv38.live-streams.nl:8006/live

 

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/live/national

 

https://listen.181fm.com/181-comedy_128k.mp3

 

take your pick - for me they will rebuffer after a few minutes

 

 

 

I have just revisited a fair number of the above and they are behaving themselves for the last 20mins or so..

doobre:

 

nzkc:

 

Tried a few of the stations you listed above. Ran them for quite a few minutes - obviously not hours. No problems at all for me (with 2degrees).

 

As others are hinting/stating - its unlikely to be 2d or chorus. Much more likely to be your side of things to be honest with you (e.g you have something saturating your bandwidth).

 

 

Surely if there was something running that is saturating my bandwidth, then video streaming would be affected.? and the higher bandwidth of FLAC also?

 

@nzkc - is my thinking correct on this?

How do i try to saturate my own bandwidth as a test?

cheers CD

"Surely if there was something running that is saturating my bandwidth, then video streaming would be affected.? and the higher bandwidth of FLAC also?

@nzkc - is my thinking correct on this?

How do i try to saturate my own bandwidth as a test?

cheers CD"

I have got hold of pingplotter free version, and I plan to run a station stream while using pingplotter to the same address, and starting one-by-one the other PC's and media players, leaving it a while to see if they affect the streams. I think this should show up on the pingplotter graph.

Q. Am I going about this the right way? anyone..

cheers CD

Not much help with your situation, but I'm on Spark fibre and I was streaming a station for about 7 hours today uninterrupted, with no buffering at all. This is just listening through Winamp too.

Given all those are on literal different parts of the internet and are not related in any way I am going to personally put it down to your media player of choice or your setup. This isn't specifically an ISP issue.

VLC on my connection for example will for some reason drop the FLAC stream of the radio station I am currently hosting "The Cheese" which doesn't even pass over the internet as it is on my network. You can try this here: https://thecheese.co.nz/970-2/

You could potentially try another media player like MPC-BE (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/) or even Winamp to see if it'll play without dropping out.

michaelmurfy:

 

Given all those are on literal different parts of the internet and are not related in any way I am going to personally put it down to your media player of choice or your setup. This isn't specifically an ISP issue.

 

VLC on my connection for example will for some reason drop the FLAC stream of the radio station I am currently hosting "The Cheese" which doesn't even pass over the internet as it is on my network. You can try this here: https://thecheese.co.nz/970-2/

 

You could potentially try another media player like MPC-BE (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/) or even Winamp to see if it'll play without dropping out.

 

It would be more understand, it being my network, if it was only an issue on one media player or one kind of player.

For what it’s worth to put a spanner in the works…

I use Alexa echo show to stream radio in our kitchen.

past 1-2 months, both “tunein” and “rova” have buffered and I’ve concluded it could either be the combination of the following

• either orignal source feed is buffering or the feed is being buffered somewhere between orignal source and my device (somtimes I think that’s true just by the way it sounds when its either about to stop or audio is skippy).
• either my mobile phone and iPad are too close to the said Amazon echo device (causing some wifi or BT interference)
• my cordless phone base is not at a 90deg angle and less than 20cm away from the Amazon device 

often, I do really think when the Amazon echo has some buffering and I immediately remove any other device away from it… it then becomes happier.

I have just recently provided the requested details to my 2Deg, including traceroute logs etc, to hopefully track down whether the problem (constantly rebuffering>reconnecting) with only http radio stations is from the external network/internet or not...

All I noticed in the logs was that over a period of two hours, roughly, sometimes the number of hops was up to 15, then next time only 5 hops. But usually the RTT was consistantly around 160 - 190ms, now-and-again a 210ms. Even with several 'timed out' hops.

So I think I am going to have to accept that there is some gremlin(s) in my own network that's hogging some network access that I don't yet know about...

cheers CD

P.S. > Q. Anyone on here in NZ have their 'new' SkyTv box connected 24/7 ?

Your second query would be better posted in the Sky section of the forum 🙂