Very odd timing

[wha2doo]

Sorry, gotta make a longer story out of this, lol! Mostly chuckling about it, but I still would like to diagnose and eliminate this issue if I can!

I was watching the Milwaukee Brewers vs NY Yankees baseball game (MLB Milwaukee Brewers channel) Sunday night. Bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, game tied, the channel started buffering and then kept looping the same 20 seconds. I couldn't get it to stop, and the NY Yankees MLB channel wouldn't come in (same channel?? ...often opposing team has their own broadcast, announcers, etc). Sooo, I missed Turang's solo homer for the Brewers but it was an isolated thing I figured. Nope!

Just now, top of the ninth, Uribe only needs two outs for the Brewers to win and... started buffering and the channel went offline. I tried the opponent's channel (San Diego Padres MLB channel) and was offline as well. I then tried a 2nd tv and the same channels were offline. I "killed" Tivimate, cleared the buffer, and restarted it but no go. About 5 minutes later after the game ended, the channel came back online on both tv's.

If it's on my end, shouldn't I been able to get a "fresh connection" and view these two channels on the 2nd tv? I didn't have a VPN active on the 1st TV, but it was active on the 2nd TV.

Thanks for any input!

 

[MikeVanWa]

Sorry, gotta make a longer story out of this, lol! Mostly chuckling about it, but I still would like to diagnose and eliminate this issue if I can!

I was watching the Milwaukee Brewers vs NY Yankees baseball game (MLB Milwaukee Brewers channel) Sunday night. Bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, game tied, the channel started buffering and then kept looping the same 20 seconds. I couldn't get it to stop, and the NY Yankees MLB channel wouldn't come in (same channel?? ...often opposing team has their own broadcast, announcers, etc). Sooo, I missed Turang's solo homer for the Brewers but it was an isolated thing I figured. Nope!

Just now, top of the ninth, Uribe only needs two outs for the Brewers to win and... started buffering and the channel went offline. I tried the opponent's channel (San Diego Padres MLB channel) and was offline as well. I then tried a 2nd tv and the same channels were offline. I "killed" Tivimate, cleared the buffer, and restarted it but no go. About 5 minutes later after the game ended, the channel came back online on both tv's.

If it's on my end, shouldn't I been able to get a "fresh connection" and view these two channels on the 2nd tv? I didn't have a VPN active on the 1st TV, but it was active on the 2nd TV.

Thanks for any input!

There are so many unknowns to deal with, it's at times impossible to say. Your provider, your device needing a refresh, the Brewer/Yankee game itself, so much in demand? Perhaps it's a conspiracy against Brewer fans (I'm just taking a stab at that, and kidding, of course). I find looping impossible to deal with, and at times, it's just the death of that channel for the time being. E.G., if ESPN has a hockey game and becomes problematic, I'll go to an NHL channel, or a premium Sports channel. I'm going to take a stab that while this game has no interest to me, as they're both 2nd, perhaps there's a huge audience for it and therefore the demand. Check with your provider and see if there's anything they can offer, but no doubt it will be the usual "it's you". Force stop, clear the cache, reboot your device, yada yada yada. I'm convinced it's demand. Good luck.