Hey there… I have got an RPi3 running OSMC snuggled behind my TV. Though it has a direct line of sight to my AC router (HUAWEI HG659 provided by the ISP) I always end up with frequent buffering when streaming 1080P and occasional buffering for a 720P stream.
I don’t want to run an ethernet cable to the Pi at this moment, however I have started looking into getting one of those tiny wifi adapters but I am not sure if it would make a significant difference.
Would like to hear from fellow members if an AC dongle would make a considerable difference. I will try to update the iperf results of my Pi tomorrow.
I have exactly the same problem, and I’ve ordered a dual-band adapter from the OSMC store so I can connect to my router at 5G. I should have that adapter sometime this week, and I’ll report back my results. (I’m streaming content from my backend, which is in the next room of my house.)
The Pi has a 2.4G band adapter onboard, and, around my house, the 2.4G band is heavily congested to the point where it’s almost unusable.
Frequently from the internet and occasionally from my NAS (which is connected to the router over a gigabit ethernet connection).
When I have had buffering issuing I checked my internet connection and it was pretty solid at 50-60mbps. I did think it could be the cyberlocker server acting up but it has been too often to be a server side issue.
Also while streaming from my NAS even a 720P movie would buffer very often (that is mainly due to the higher bitrate of my NAS movies vs the heavily compressed cyberlock streams).
iperf3 results from Rpi3 (wifi) to a laptop (wifi 2.4G N)
Where is the logic here? While I can quickly imagine why you are using vague terminology in naming the source, what gave you the impression that “cyberlockers” were so stable and performant?
Unless you can ran iperf on your router (some support it) you would be better connecting the laptop wired to the router as it would give a better indication of what throughput you are getting.
ah, maybe I should have elaborated. First, it was more than one provider, faced this with quite a few providers. Second, and probably the one that made me make the above comment, I was able to stream the ‘same’ video from the same source without any buffering on my laptop (the one I used for iperf test).
p.s: It is most definitely not the exact same video and my reasoning might not be right, just flying with what I have
This will most certainly help with streaming movies from you nas, as for internet internet streams it depends on the addon; as some setting there own cache setttings.
It’s the lower end of what you get out of a 54mbit 2.4 GHz network.
The basic question is what is the Bitrate of the files you want to play over this connection?
Consistent with what I get with the internal adaptor on the pi3, but my router is upstairs and pi down, so no line of sight. I think your 2.4g network maybe congested.
TBH my NAS has all sorta files from 950 kb/s xvids to 11 Mb/s mkvs. While I would love to stream the 11 Mb/s MKVs without a hitch I can settle for something less than that without wires.
