Mag 250 Being Throttled?
- Thread starter Dougeso
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Cool. Thanks for the help guys.
christara
Member
One thing that concerns me about your results are the:
Quote " Packet Loss:"
The measurement of how many data packets arrive at their intended destination when sent from a computer. Ideal packet loss is zero percent.
I don,t know myself the way to help but it could be something at your end thats dropping some information thats getting sent to your box?
Best way is to go thru all the checks on your system, Router reset and check wiring and so forth.
Link here for you to check such things out.
https://www.annese.com/blog/what-causes-packet-loss
Quote " Packet Loss:"
The measurement of how many data packets arrive at their intended destination when sent from a computer. Ideal packet loss is zero percent.
I don,t know myself the way to help but it could be something at your end thats dropping some information thats getting sent to your box?
Best way is to go thru all the checks on your system, Router reset and check wiring and so forth.
Link here for you to check such things out.
https://www.annese.com/blog/what-causes-packet-loss
Thanks for that. I done a reboot on the router before I done this test, so I'll check the rest and see.
bazcfc1
VIP Member
sorry if this has been asked already when you say hd stuttering what are the rest of your channels like have you considered messaging your provider as it could be their streams and not the mag box or tried like Netflix if you have it on mag box
All the channels stutter unless they are sd. I can watch skysports sd OK, but if I try skysports HD, it is unwatchable. I haven't tried netflix on it. I'll give it a go later and see.
formandvoid
TK Veteran
You could try menu/settings/advanced settings and increase the buffer size to about 5 (try a few different settings) and see if that helps. Also ,not sure but make sure DHCP is set to on in network settings as I seem to remember a similar issue. Not sure if this will help but worth a shot.
Think you find its the box mag 250 haven't been manufactured now for a few years at least and they haven't been supported either, you will find that the streams your supplier is using will be HLS on hd which the mag 250 doesn't cope with where as the sd are probably the older MPEGTS streams which box is fine with has these have been around over 10 years when I had my first mag 250 box.
I'll try this tonight.
It was working perfectly when I first got the box. Worked really well until 3 or 4 weeks ago when my Internet started to play up in the house.
Thanks man. I'll try that tonight and let you know.
Thanks man. I'll try that later and let you know.
Tried to increase the buffer size to 5. Less stuttering, but it freezes for ages when it does.
I know, but it was getting 10+ when I bought the box around a month ago. Just wondering why it has dropped so much all of a sudden.
Service throttling normally occurs at peak times.
If your box runs ok on HD say mid morning and the speedtest is @10mb but then between 6-10pm it drops to 3mbs then it's an internet provider issue and you need to keep results and contact them to resolve.
We get this a lot in Spain where smaller ip's oversell their bandwidth.
If your box runs ok on HD say mid morning and the speedtest is @10mb but then between 6-10pm it drops to 3mbs then it's an internet provider issue and you need to keep results and contact them to resolve.
We get this a lot in Spain where smaller ip's oversell their bandwidth.