Watch ESPN on Apple TV

[ubonrthai]

Anyone else use Watch ESPN? It's practically unusable on my Apple TV. My setup is unblock-us.com service with 3BB 30Mb/3Mb fiber which is only around 4Mb when I test it to U.S. servers today. I have an ethernet cable running directly from my router to the Apple TV. Netflix & Disney apps work flawlessly yet Watch ESPN delays, skips or simply won't load at all. Seems to be more reliable on my iOS devices but just curious to hear if anyone else is having better success.

Edited January 2, 2015 by ubonrthai

[wooloomooloo]

Wifi or cable?

[ubonrthai]

I said I have a cable running directly from the router to the Apple TV.

[IMHO]

First off, you should try to see if there's a way to improve those slow speeds to the USA. Have you been into your router settings and edited the MTU setting for the WAN connection? The default is 1492 which is great for domestic data, but is too big for international data and will cause packet loss. Try setting it to 1450 first, then down in steps of -10 until you get decent speeds.

You should be able to get at least 50% of your advertised speed to the USA after tweaking the MTU - which in your case will be almost 4x faster, which just might get your ESPN across the line.

Edited January 3, 2015 by IMHO

[ubonrthai]

Thanks. I will give it a try.

[DaveBKK]

Don't forget that cable cut they had on the main SE Asian fiber cable near Vietnam....whatever route you're being sent on via your proxy might be slowed down due to that cable cut.

(Even if not on that route, there will be more congestion as things get re-routed all over SE Asia).

[FloridaExport]

I'm fairly interested in this as well. I am only interested in speeding up live sporting programs provided by Watch ESPN or a slingbox-like device located in the US (it's called a Vulkano).

I recently bought the 18down/1.8up Mbps package from True, and it seems worse than my previous internet which was provided by the condo and came from ToT. My international speeds are absolutely terrible (usually less than 1Mbps and very uneven), and I've been trying quite a few things I've read on this forum to speed them up.

I've tried lowering the MTU on my router (Cisco EPC3825).

This didn't seem to make any difference over several tests (1450 down to 1400). I also downloaded a program called SG TCP Optimizer that pings several websites. It said that 1500 MTU was my optimal setting.

I've tried connecting straight from bridge mode.

This didn't change the streaming quality.

I've tried changing my DNS server to Google's servers.

This appeared to have no effect on my streaming quality.

I find it very interesting that Bad Kitty believes that one should be able to get speeds up to 50% of the advertised speed to the US. Does anyone have more suggestions or resources to correct the problem? I was under the impression that True had better speed than ToT.