Tivoboy - you running Mac on Windows with the problem?

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Quick look around the other sections there are some others with same / similar problems...

Mac player

http://www.slingcommunity.com/forum/thread/24812/Video-freezing-on-both-LAN-and-internet/

Windows player

http://www.slingcommunity.com/forum/thread/13112/questions-about-connection-speed--buffering/

last but one post..

 http://www.slingcommunity.com/forum/thread/24930/Variable-download-speed-on-700P/

may not be related but sounds similar...

I have never even tried viewing from the internet. All of my experience with the SB Pro is via the LAN. Sort of a personal/portable TV.

Worked great right out of the box. Upgraded the firmware and after about 1 day of good performance I got the video problem and it has been with me ever sice. No matter what I try.

So from my point of view, this has nothing to do with ISP messing with the stream rate.

I'd love to rollback the firmware, but I can't find a source for older versions of the SBPro firmware. 

I would appreciate that. I have enabled my e-mail link.

It might help for troubleshooting if someone that has rolled their firmware back can upgrade it again and see if you have the problem again.

Also, has anyone reloaded the current firmware?

Slinging Tivo HD, Tivo S2, and OTA from a Pro HD, Tivo HD from a Pro, Tivo HD from a Solo, and Humax DRT800 from a Classic to iPhone, Dell Inspiron 1520 with Sprint EVDO, and a SlingCatcher over Mi-Connection cable with 2Mbps upload.

I have a couple of questions.

1. Is anyone having these problems when slinging on their LAN or is this a WAN only problems?
2. Who is and who isn't (just folks having the problem)  slinging or receiving on Comcast?

I have a couple of questions.

1. Is anyone having these problems when slinging on their LAN or is this a WAN only problems?
2. Who is and who isn't (just folks having the problem)  slinging or receiving on Comcast?

I came here this evening because I'm experiencing issues with my bitrate crashing - only to find that I definitely not alone.  This morning I had no problem at all slinging remotely.  Tonight I'm able to only access audio by selecting  'Audio Only'  - my bitrate if trying to do both audio and video runs from 4 kbps to 77 kbps.  I normally stream anywhere from 450-600kbps.

 This happened about a month ago - the only difference is that I have the upgraded slingplayer - and I sling using a slingbox tuner.

 I'm receiving remotely on Comcast - my slingbox is slinging to me via verizon.

 Hope this info helps with the research process.

ryandh said:

It might help for troubleshooting if someone that has rolled their firmware back can upgrade it again and see if you have the problem again.

Also, has anyone reloaded the current firmware?

 

Im a bit reluctant having found a solution, I also have no physical access to my pro if you see what I mean, next time I go to the USA no problem !

I was concerned doing a firmware update over the internet, although it worked 1st time, and did not take as long as I was expecting.

Ive had 3 requests for the firmware Ive edited, 1 reply saying it did not fix the problem, 2 no reply as yet... 

ryandh said:

The fact that it worked fine this morning says it's something in the connection.  If it's firmware or software it should have the problem all the time..

 

Well that's not necessarily true. the old firmware/software may have been better capable of handling errors or other issues woth the stream.

 The 'connection' problems might have always been there, but the software took care of it. Now that they changed something, it can't.

coousin01 said:

That's not necessarily true. the old firmware/software may have been better capable of handling errors or other issues woth the stream.

 The 'connection' problems might have always been there, but the software took care of it. Now that they changed something, it can't.

 

coousin01 that is a very good observation. We ahve not doen any updates to the slinbox nor on the player on my laptop in over 3 months. In my case I am back to slinging just great today. Since no changes were made ,one daY it worked the next day it didn't work and then the next day it works, i feel pretty sure on my end it was a network issue.

Do to the time difference I am usually not watching in the evening hours in USA time. My problem was on a Saturday night. I do suspect that the issue was on the Cox network since when I watched other video on the web it worked fine and my speeds were fine reading webpages. So it seemed the "French Connection  " worked fine but when trying to get video over Cox I was not able to.

And what makes me very suspecious is what I read about Comcast preventing access to BitTorrent connections. In the articles I read it said that the bit Torrent files would run for 5 minutes and then Comcast would send a mesage to the sending and receiving computers to drop the connection. That seemed very very similar to exactly wha I was experiencing. I watched the clock and after 5 miutes my Sling would go to locating or optimizing. So i ws thinking on a high demand Saturday night Cox might be doing  some network "shaping/diverting." 

 I'm jsut saying...." Comcast never fessed up to network shaping until they were outed by the users and then the Press picked up on it. it is jsut odd that it happened on a Saturday night which i would presume to be a busy time for a consmer network provider.

Coousin01 may be onto something, perhaps there are some external factors, network or as you guys say WAN, factors and those of you hwo have done upgrades are affected even more than those of us who have never changed anything. If it is external, which in my case I can say positively it was external, the external changes are so great that the Slingplayer software is not able to get around the interruptions.

It is the start of olvie picking so I won't be up late watching the slingbox for at least a month. I thinkw we should pay particular attention to the ISP and the day and times people are having problems. The only way to do that is for people to post the information, then we can look for patterns. Gotta quit now, going to watch Desperate Housewives.