therealjoxer

No, speedtests seem fine at mostly any hour of the day. There's even a speedtest app for the mac as they claim that once you get into really fast speeds like above 100Mbps or so the web one might not be accurate. The TV and xbox can do speedtests from web browser as well, and the xbox has its own speedtest - these are slower than for a computer, but still in the 200Mbps to 450Mbps range. I'm probably bringing my old Asus Dark Knight back from the cottage in a couple of weeks - I took it out of the mix since it doesn't support the full 1Gb speeds especially over wifi, but yeah, I don't fully trust the ISPs modem/router combo. Just a bit of a pain to reconfigure all the network bits and then again when I move it back to the cottage in the spring.

@paddy-stone I'm normally hard wired ethernet to both TV and Xbox, there's a powered switch for the entertainment centre but I have taken the direct line from the router to each to see if anything in the switch could affect things. I've also used the same connection to my laptop and it worked fine for it. I have also tried using the 5G network instead for both and no better results. The router is physically about 10 feet away from the entertainment unit so either ethernet or wireless should have an excellent connection. I even tried routing through a VPN using the connection sharing through the laptop, but the results were somewhat inconclusive - I don't think the VPN provider necessarily supports such high speed streams, for one. It seemed I got more consistent network speeds but not high enough.

Thanks @paddy-stone - I just tried and my 2016 MBP in Chrome maintained 150Mbps+ and streamed fine. LG C7 was between 8-10Mbps and did the same stop start behaviour. It looks great on the Mac, but fantastic on the TV with the resolution and HDR capability, but the slide show has to go! I'm playing with a few examples from this article on finding HDR Youtube content: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-find-hdr-content-on-youtube-1829374364/amp I've attached a sample of the Mac's playback as well. I then tried the same one on the Xbox One X (which should be a GPU monster although not much for CPU compared to a 2.9 Intel I7) and it was no better there. Interestingly they all were using the same host shown in the Stats For Nerds as well. I'd love to try this setup on a local Fibe 1Gb and see how it works there but of course I know no one else with a 4k set and Fibe to bring my Xbox to. If not for the occasional glimpses of 4K YouTube working on them, I'd wonder if the VP9 codec isn't being decoded well on the lesser CPUs on the TV and Xbox. And again that wouldn't seem to explain the connection speed/network activity. Hmm, maybe I should but the new 4K Firestick with HDR support or ChromeCast and see if they work any better? I've just had a really hard time finding anyone really looking at issues with 4k YouTube at all.

Ok by PC @paddy-stone I hope you mean macbook pro because I own no PCs. I can try this again over the weekend, like I said though it seemed to work fine there for a while but not the last time I tried. Also I experimented a bit with using TunnelBear VPN and it might have made things a little better but hard to quantify - and I'm not sure that if I share the internet access over my macbooks wifi to the xbox if TunnelBear will route that traffic through the VPN tunnel or not. I could maybe try using my wife's phone, towards the end of the billing cycle to see how that works. I am pay as you go and not eager to eat my data there. Are you actually verifying the content is streaming in 4K on your shield by checking the quality settings as it streams? Maybe my old eyes can't see all the difference between a 1080p and a 4K even on a 65" OLED by I definitely pay for the best speeds and expect that I should be easily able to stream 4K from youtube with my connection.

Using either my LG C7's own app, or my Xbox One X (the super duper graphics version) it is next to impossible to get a 4k stream to run. I mean I can select a 4k video, but if I check the video quality it will be either 1080p or 1440. Forcing the quality to 4k usually just results in alternating short bursts of video, then the spinning buffering symbol for a bit, etc. Network speed drops down below 10 Mbits, slower than when viewing 1080p (the network connection graph under stats for nerds also shows constant network activity whereas the 1080 video has short bursts of network activity to keep the buffer filled). Also, at one point I seemed to have no issue using Chrome on my 2016 MacBook Pro connected to the LG to get 4K streams running smooth, but other times even that has an issue. Any ideas? Speed tests show Xbox at 450Mb IIRC, wired directly to the Rogers provided modem/router. TV is just slightly slower. Speedtests run simultaneously on 1 wired Macbook Pro and 1 wireless 802.11ac show each able to hit 750 - 850Mb - so a combined well over 1Gb. The few times I've had a 4K stream running fine I've had Stats For Nerds on the Xbox showing anywhere from 25 - 80Mbps and again able to keep the buffer full using bursts of network activity in the graph. In case it matters a lot of these are from Digital Foundry channel where they are comparing the quality of video games. Also 4K from Amazon Prime and Netflix works great, even in their HDR titles. I used to have an Asus Dark Kniight router, but that wasn't actually able to run at the full speed of this internet service, so I fell back to using the Rogers router (was bridged for a time). My only other thought for changing something I have control over is to try <insert recommended router here> and bridging the modem again. Rogers were no help on this matter.

I can hit somewhere north of 750 wired or 5g, and do that pretty much simultaneously on two laptops as long as one is wired and the other is wireless ac. Now if only everything would get delivered at that speed! Game downloads from Xbox live for instance range from 30Mb -> 250Mb. Xbox is wired and only hits 450 I think on it's speed tests.