Cuts in streamed music?!

furom

Hi,

I experience since some time now, occasional cuts, like pauses when streaming music (different players and services). Usually short (~1s), but sometime longer (up to 10m) too.

While this is not too much of a problem, it is sometimes a bit disturbing. No one seems to know what or even have a clue. It does not affect movies of anything other than music strangely enough.

Could I do something to better see what is happening?

As it is highly intermittent, I'd rather use pfSense if possible. Any ideas?

Thanks

SteveITS

@furom All streaming buffers at least a bit on the device. Packet loss, poor Wi-Fi, connection issues, etc. can contribute. Any entries in your pfSense logs at the time? Try a continual ping somewhere and see if you're getting packet loss.

furom

@steveits said in Cut's in streamed music?!:

@furom All streaming buffers at least a bit on the device. Packet loss, poor Wi-Fi, connection issues, etc. can contribute. Any entries in your pfSense logs at the time? Try a continual ping somewhere and see if you're getting packet loss.

Thanks. Haven't tried the continuous ping as it can be days in between this occurring, but no packet loss is reported by pfSense, it's steady at 0%.

stephenw10

And nothing logged, like the WAN reconnected maybe? Or something like pfBlocker pulling in list updates?

furom

@stephenw10 said in Cut's in streamed music?!:

And nothing logged, like the WAN reconnected maybe? Or something like pfBlocker pulling in list updates?

No disconnects, and well, atm I have pfBlocker installed, but this started a long time before I recently installed that.

Dobby_

@furom said in Cut's in streamed music?!:

No disconnects, and well, atm I have pfBlocker installed, but this started a long time before I recently installed that.

Perhaps other packets installed?

Snort with some rules affecting that behaviour
Squid and ClamAV and not checked don´t scan "streams"
Squid set up to pass through streams from audio and/or video
in pfBlocker-NG the servers for the streaming into a whitelist perhaps?

furom

@dobby_ said in Cut's in streamed music?!:

@furom said in Cut's in streamed music?!:

No disconnects, and well, atm I have pfBlocker installed, but this started a long time before I recently installed that.

Perhaps other packets installed?

Snort with some rules affecting that behaviour

Squid and ClamAV and not checked don´t scan "streams"

Squid set up to pass through streams from audio and/or video

in pfBlocker-NG the servers for the streaming into a whitelist perhaps?

Thanks for good suggestion! This started before I even knew I could install any sort of packets on pfSense, so I must assume it is not the setup in itself...?