Afrihost or Vumatel fiber issue

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I have a 20/20 Uncapped account at Afrihost, and Vumatel is the fiber infrastructure provider.

I have not had any problems with this since I've had it installed a few months ago.

What I do notice, however, is that when I'm streaming Netflix HD, the quality drops a little bit every now and then, like the resolution lowers. Now I believe Netflix scales this according to your bandwidth.

Every time I do a speedtest, though, it's always +-20 up and down, 3-4 ms ping.

I'm streaming using a MyGica ATV585, I'm not sure if the issue is with the device, but I suspect something's up with either the router or the fiber/connection.

How would I go about testing by fiber connection? A speedtest would not be of any help.
 
Peon said:
Mr Slootvreter, you using wifi or network cable to the MyGica?
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Cable. I have a suspicion that it would be the router acting up, or the Mygica not being a powerful enough device, but I don't really know how to test it.
 
Slootvreter said:
Cable. I have a suspicion that it would be the router acting up, or the Mygica not being a powerful enough device, but I don't really know how to test it.
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You could bypass the MyGica and stream Netflix on your PC and see if it drops quality. Im thinking you got one of those badass gigabit ethernet port routers. I doubt it is to blame.
 
Peon said:
You could bypass the MyGica and stream Netflix on your PC and see if it drops quality. Im thinking you got one of those badass gigabit ethernet port routers. I doubt it is to blame.
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Well why have I never thought about that :o :D
 
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