On Sunday morning I like to tell my Google Nest devices ‘OK Google, play Classic FM from Global Player on Downstairs’. ‘Downstairs’ being two coupled Google Nest devices, ‘Global Player’ because Google will otherwise default to Tune In, which won’t display what music is actually playing.
Saying this mouthful once is bad enough, but ever since we dropped from 900Mbps to 500Mbps, and took EETV, I’m having to say it several times, as Google has taken to buffering; and once it does, it never unbuffers (I’ve left it for up to 30 minutes) until I say the mouthful again.
I’ve rebooted the ONT, the Home Hub 2, the Google Nests; nothing fixes it.
It never did this before the change; nothing else buffers, even now, and I would have thought a radio station a very light load on a broadband line. The new EETV Box Pro is on, but in standby throughout.
Any thoughts out there?
For now, I'd put this down to coincidence - these things do happen. *I would assume you completely reset the Google Nest devices after changing internet suppliers and that there are no settings hanging over!
I believe EETV delivers content over multicast. The multicast packets are probably swamping the Google Nest devices and causing them to perform badly.