Has anyone else encountered this? I have an ATV2 and movies used to download and be watchable almost instantly after renting. Now it takes 45 minutes(!!!) for a movie to be ready to view. I can start it after 5 or so but it stalls out to rebuffer very quickly. All my other services, Xbox, and web streaming run normally. This has been happening for a few weeks at least. Is there a known disruption right now? Any help appreciated.
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Apple TV downloads have become grossly slow
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I've noticed it being a bit slower lately, but not near what you have.
Latest episodes of Breaking Bad buffered once. Usually they never do that.
Latest episodes of Breaking Bad buffered once. Usually they never do that.
Yeah my apple tv has become completely unusable for streaming content from apple. I'm going to try renting on iTunes on my laptop to compare. If it works fine, perhaps the ATV has a wifi card issue, though Netflix and YouTube and AirPlay from my MacBook run fine on it. Aggravating.
I'm in Calgary as well. Same problem here, with Shaw also. Thought it was Shaw, however everything else seems fine and speedtest is normal. It was so slow it my ATV3 suggested I try standard definition. Has been happening last couple weeks. Netflix seems fine, though some quality drop down sometimes. Might be Apple server. Trailers are especially slow.
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If it was because of net speed. Then you must try it again because this problem has been solved.
How do you figure that? If you read, it wasn't internet speed that was the problem, and since it is still buffering slowly it is not solved.
Same story in Winnipeg. I have a new ATV and the previous model with a 50mps Shaw connection. I tried the earlier model today and found its streaming performance on movies and trailers to be terrible just like the new ATV. Had no trouble until about a month ago. I suspect Apple is well aware of this problem and will have a fix soon (I hope).