Flow and the Nashville IPTV channels are stable almost always, which is great news for VEVO. But TV Hits is unfortunately absolutely useless pausing, spluttering, buffering and generally not working as one would expect; it buffers almost every 15 minutes, and this completely destroys the viewing and listening experience on this IPTV music channel in the UK, which is a pity as I'd love to watch the channel.
Now one may think that it's my setup that's the problem but this is occurring with three separate Internet providers, Sky and Zen with FTTC VDSL2 connections reporting an 80/20Mbps connection synchronisation speed and Virgin Media with a downstream speed of 152Mbps. I also have a SamKnows whitebox on my connection and that hasn't reported a speed below 61Mbps downstream during the last 6 weeks, and the latency hasn't been above 13ms to London during that period also.
On my own setup the Apple TV is hardwired to the router to eliminate the likelyhood of wifi interference and dropouts, and every single other service works correctly; iTunes movies, Netflix and even iTunes music videos that I own myself and play for hours on end without any buffering.
For the service to be successful it needs to be exceptionally reliable or it'll lose viewers, which is a pity when there is such an excellent choice of music video on demand. And I would love to watch TV Hits, but alas it's just too unreliable for any sort of enjoyment. The content delivery network really does need to be improved and quickly, so those users wishing to watch what otherwise is an excellent service, a better and more enjoyment time from the lovely music videos VEVO provide for our pleasure.
- Downstream speed last six weeks
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- Latency for last six weeks
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