Hi guys,

Thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has experienced a similar thing before.

I'm currently having issues watching Twitch specifically - and only through cable.

I'm watching the same streams as I always have which used to run on source with no issues but now it will buffer every 5 secs and eventually stop and give me a grey screen while the chat continues to load.

I thought it was a Snap issue as I had Youtube troubles recently but that has been remedied while this one continues.

I get good speedtest results (90+D / 18+U) and nothing else but Twitch seems to be affected. I don't do much with my pc other than play Battlefield, Warframe, Watch YouTube (4K quality is fine also) and movies and word processing so not sure if it's happening in other things or not.

Anyway, I thought it was a snap routing issue since Twitch recently set up AUS server and perhaps a change of configuration was needed or something, however I was tired and decided to watch streams in bed on my phone and *gasp* it was completely fine. Tried watching on my tablet, and again it's fine . I can watch multiple streams on both devices at the same time and will not buffer. Tried my desktop again and that just continues to buffer second after second.

I thought perhaps my mobo lan port was faulty, so after some advice from a GP member, I tried using the cable on my laptop and sure enough it starts to buffer. I take cable out and use wireless, and it's fine again.

I changed the cable cause I thought it may be faulty and same results. I changed the port on the fritzbox and same again.

I borrowed a wireless card from my friend today and could watch Twitch with a small amount of buffer (only a 300mbps card) but was at least watchable.

I've tried the following but I can't get it to work with no buffer on cable (little buffer would be understandable as connection to server may vary slightly depending on time etc but not every 5 secs then hanging completely).

- ran clean install of Win8.1 on new SSD.
- updated BIOS to latest version for motherboard
- updated LAN driver to latest (tried both the one from Asus site and Intel site). Tried driver only and no software also.
- changing ports on Fritzbox
- changing ethernet cable
- used wireless adapter (works fine but needs antennas to work well and I don't have space to keep it on my desk so cable is preferable).

Not sure what else to do. Trying to find my mums fritz box to see if it's the router but seems odd that it's only twitch, and how all ports give the same result..

Relevant hardware: ASUS Ranger VII motherboard, Fritz box 7390, TPLINK WN881, WIN7 AND WIN8 (have both on separate SSDs)

Any advice? Thanks in advance