On Friday, October 12, 2018 at 8:22:04 PM UTC-5, Andy wrote:
On Friday, October 12, 2018 at 5:59:58 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
Andy wrote:
I use a Blu Ray player to play movies on Amazon Prime.

I have frequent problems with the movie stopping.

My dl speed is 12 Mbps.

I use an Ethernet cable from my router directly to my blue ray player.

And I have wifi turned off.

I used to use Netflix at 3.0 Mbps and never had any interruptions.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

For fun, you could try debugging playback with your
computer first. Just in case there's a network neutrality
issue, and your computer is going to suck at it too.

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It's the usual story. No real help. It is what it is.

"How to Solve Prime Video Issues on Your Computer"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...deId=201460940

"Prime Video System Requirements for Computers"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...deId=201422810

"Internet Connection

* Standard Definition (SD) videos: 900 Kbits/sec
* High Definition (HD) videos: 3.5 Mbits/sec"

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You can test your link with Speedtest.net or fast.com (browser!).
The fast.com is owned by Netflix. I get 14Mbps on fast.com
and 15.3Mbps on Speedtest. Nodes like that are not likely
to be "clamped" by network neutrality filtering. ISPs want
their results to be high, as a sales pitch. Even if real services
cannot use the link flat out.

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I don't know of an effective way to test a Bluray ethernet
playback path. The Bluray player would need a web interface
on it, to give some access to internal state info. And then
someone would have needed to engineer a speed test facility
inside it, to check for neutrality problems.

There might be other options like ChromeCast or
Roku, but I'm not a multimedia guy.

One really remote possibility, is there is a
MTU mismatch between the player and the router.
And packets are getting fragmented, to get through
the plumbing. Back in the shared media era of Ethernet,
I'd tell you to use a promiscuous receiver and a tool
similar to Wireshark, On current day Ethernet, I don't
know what I'd use to study the Bluray ethernet traffic.

I'd have to stuff a computer with two NICs on it, in
the "path" the Bluray player normally takes. That's
all I can think of, and then, I don't know what software
to use for such a beast. Maybe a Windows PC with two
NICs could use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing), and
the Bluray player would have to be 192.168.1.x or so.
And you'd need a way into it to set it up. Very messy.

Paul

I played an Amazon Prime movie thru Firefox.

No problems. ??

Does not make sense.

I tried a newer BR player with streaming.

It said my bandwidth was not high enough.

Andy

I have a HDMI port on my computer.

Can I run a cable to my TV and view movies that way?