Anyone else have an SL2 that is constantly rebuffering? I'm seeing 3 bars in the lower corner, but every few moments i'll get a rebuffering message.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
SL2 - Rebuffering madness
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No, i'm in satellite mode.
What? It can rebuffer in satellite mode?
Yeah, i'm in internet mode. No other internet problems with any of the computers, AFAIK.
No, i'm in satellite mode.
What? It can rebuffer in satellite mode?
Yeah, i'm in internet mode. No other internet problems with any of the computers, AFAIK.
Well, you know, we just have to ask and make sure and be polite while we do it. It's easy to come across like a jerk on here since everything is written instead of spoken. Are you still having the same issue now that a couple of days have gone by?
I have noticed that there are times that the Sirius internet feed is a tad unreliable. The SL2 no doubt would rebuffer in this case (lost connection).
This could be it. I haven't noticed much of an issue with stream_on though.
I've noticed it with the TTR1. I suspect the access points for the SL100/SL2 and TTR1 are different than the access points of the web which seems to be more reliable.
This crap better not continue for too long. Three bars on the lower left of the screen and re-buffering like crazy.
The issue in some cases is that you need to have a really decent connection consistently and if you don't because Sirius didn't have enough foresight to have their streaming bitrate be able to drop automatically to meet connection speeds, then you are stuck with the rebuffering. When the Internet Radio thing was in beta I was on the beta team and one of my chief things was you've got to fix this so that it can automatically drop down to a lower bitrate to insure a connection rather than buffering. They never even considered a fix like this and thusly you have what you have. In most cases it works fine, but you'll have those moments when it is problematic.
English?
What you're saying is that the audio is coming into the SL2 too fast and the connection can't keep up (Part of the problem, thusly, is on my end.) The SL2 should automatically slow itself down to make up for a crappy connection, but since it can't, it goes into buffer-mania?
What you're saying is that the audio is coming into the SL2 too fast and the connection can't keep up (Part of the problem, thusly, is on my end.) The SL2 should automatically slow itself down to make up for a crappy connection, but since it can't, it goes into buffer-mania?
Pretty much. Since it's constantly grabbing the stream at about 128kb, the internet connection might not be able to keep up if other things are going on, so yeah, instead of it throttling the quality down, it stops to buffer instead.