Floatplane.. rant *Sigh*

[jiyeon]

On 3/2/2019 at 9:39 PM, Abdul201588 said:

Where are you located? I'm in the UK. There's are reason why it's so crap. 

I live in Scotland and never had problems with Floatplane buffering.

 

On 3/2/2019 at 9:51 PM, Abdul201588 said:

Connection is fine. 80 down and 20 up... Using Ethernet cable.

I'm running 20Mbps down and 10Mbps on a good day and I'm using Wi-Fi.

[FlappyBoobs]

On 3/2/2019 at 10:45 PM, TheWiseGuy said:

It might be your internet, it is quite slow especially if trying to download videos at 1080p or greater which requires at least 100 download speed. Servers might also be a factor but I don't think so.

The wireless to my TV is max 45 down, and I can stream 4k amazon and Netflix perfectly. Netflix even state that 25 down is all that's recommended for 4k (recommended not minimum).

[ATFink]

Do you run your connection through a VPN? I don't know about floatplane, but from my experience some websites really don't like that.

[LinusOnLine]

My guess is that your ISP runs a packet shaper. So unknown sources gets down prioritized. 

[N1NJ4W4RR10R]

On 3/3/2019 at 8:52 AM, TheWiseGuy said:

80 download is slow in general. 

It hurts this is "slow", lol.

 

I feel like that guy with a 550 hearing people call the 570 slow

[IntMD]

17 hours ago, LinusOnLine said:

My guess is that your ISP runs a packet shaper. So unknown sources gets down prioritized. 

^ This

 

If it's not your hardware in your house, then it is probably your ISP throttling from the sound of it. Which ISP are you using?

[Sir Asvald]

20 minutes ago, IntMD said:

^ This

 

If it's not your hardware in your house, then it is probably your ISP throttling from the sound of it. Which ISP are you using?

VodaFone

[leadeater]

On 3/3/2019 at 10:31 AM, Abdul201588 said:

I don't understand why CDN hasn't been set up.

There are multiple CDN servers, I know Aus has been problematic for FP as a few ISPs (well more like one specifically) aren't playing ball and throttling traffic but I've not heard of anything like that for the UK. Using the Chrome (or equiv) dev tools to check which server you're getting directed to when playing a video.

[Sir Asvald]

49 minutes ago, leadeater said:

There are multiple CDN servers, I know Aus has been problematic for FP as a few ISPs (well more like one specifically) aren't playing ball and throttling traffic but I've not heard of anything like that for the UK. Using the Chrome (or equiv) dev tools to check which server you're getting directed to when playing a video.

When I download any file It gives me this address 

https://edge02-na.floatplane.com (North America)

 

How do yo some checks on Google Chrome?

[leadeater]

33 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

When I download any file It gives me this address 

https://edge02-na.floatplane.com (North America)

 

How do yo some checks on Google Chrome?

On the forum (not sure it works on the actual FP site) hit F12 to open Dev tools, then go to the console tab and you'll see something like this.

 

 

The first one is the edge server you'll be directed to, everything start off talking to the NA server but it will switch to the one that is listed first. It picks based on lowest latency, you can expand each of those to see what the latency is.

 

After a short while you'll see the url in the same console change over to the edge server with that lowest latency, like so.

 

Whenever I get directed to the wrong edge server, it's happened to me, the experience is crap and you can't stream the videos because it's way to slow.

 

You can also go to the Network tab in the dev tools and look for lines with chunk in it, click on it. (I think this way works on the FP site)

 

 

 

[Sir Asvald]

4 minutes ago, leadeater said:

 

 

This what I have.

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

 

This what I have.

That's on the actual floatplane website isn't it? It doesn't show the edge server list, jump down to my second part about the Network tab or use the forum to view the video and get the info. Though I'm not sure the edge selection is exactly the same between the forum and floatplane website (should be).

[Sir Asvald]

2 minutes ago, leadeater said:

That's on the actual floatplane website isn't it? It doesn't show the edge server list, jump down to my second part about the Network tab or use the forum to view the video and get the info. Though I'm not sure the edge selection is exactly the same between the forum and floatplane website (should be).

Thats' from the Floatplane website.

 

When I play the video is starts at and stays at 360p. As soon as I change it to 1080p it lags and nothing loads.

[leadeater]

@Abdul201588

Also sorry on the floatplane site the lines you are looking for don't have the word chunk in them, they start with n. I still mostly use the forum to watch FP vdieos.

[Sir Asvald]

6 minutes ago, leadeater said:

 

Same thing here on Floatplane:

When I play the video is starts at and stays at 360p. As soon as I change it to 1080p it lags and nothing loads, once it loads it takes for ever to open. Could it be that my hardware acceleration is off? 

 

EDIT: I tried with and without Hardware acceleration. Same thing

 

 

 

[leadeater]

Just now, Abdul201588 said:

Same thing here on Floatplane:

When I play the video is starts at and stays at 360p. As soon as I change it to 1080p it lags and nothing loads, once it loads it takes for ever to open. Could it be that my hardware acceleration is off? 

 

 

 

Click on one of those lines starting with n, once you select it the middle panel will load more information and it'll have the url it's talking to.

[Sir Asvald]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

Click on one of those lines starting with n, once you select it the middle panel will load more information and it'll have the url it's talking to.

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

Stay on the Headers part, it's the first line in there.

 

[Sir Asvald]

2 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Stay on the Headers part, it's the first line in there.

 

Getting connected to NA every time

 

 

[leadeater]

Just now, Abdul201588 said:

Getting connected to NA every time

 

 

Yep something is off, since you're on the forum viewing the video could you go back to the Console part of the Dev tools and expand one of the lines like this

Need to check which edge server is in position 0.

[Sir Asvald]

2 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Yep something is off, since you're on the forum viewing the video could you go back to the Console part of the Dev tools and expand one of the lines like this

Need to check which edge server is in position 0.

I am watching the videos on the floatplane site. I'll take a look at the videos on the forums

[Sir Asvald]

@leadeater

 

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

@leadeater

 

Expand 0 and 2 further and check what the latency value is, I suspect you're getting high latency through to the EU server for some reason.

 

At this point probably best to email support@floatplane.com, also point them to this forum topic for reference/info.

@AJJaxNet

[Sir Asvald]

3 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Expand 0 and 2 further and check what the latency value is, I suspect you're getting high latency through to the EU server for some reason.

 

At this point probably best to email support@floatplane.com, also point them to this forum topic for reference/info.

@AJJaxNet