Normal behaviour for video streaming?
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I've noticed that the end user experience when using online streaming video services (Netflix, etc) through my new pfSense firewall isn't as good as it was through my old firewall.
Specifically:
- It takes a long time from clicking the play button for the media to actually start playing
- When the video is paused for anything more than a few minutes, clicking 'play' doesn't resume the video. It will appear to be buffering for a short time and then fail. To resume the video, I have to refresh the webpage.
Once the video stream starts, it seems to play without any issues
Is this expected behaviour, or is it simply a case of tuning/configuration? If so, are there any useful guides anyone can recommend as a starting point?
For reference, I'm running pfBlockerNG on the pfSense firewall, but no proxy. I am planning to implement traffic shaping, but that's brand new to me so I haven't done anything with it yet, it wasn't a feature on my old firewall.
Many thanks
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@ODY-GB No, this is not typical. Do you notice the same behaviour used through their native apps?
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@ODY-GB
I am using an AppleTV 4K and it works immediately when you mash the button on the Apple remote for Netflix or any of my streaming services. Some of the AppleTV 4K streams are 30 megbit watching Pfsense traffic graphs. -
@Popolou This is from my Windows laptop, I don't have the native apps installed. But, it did prompt me to test with another Windows device that hadn't been moved to the pfSense firewall yet. That did seem to run much better, so it may well be a device issue, rather than the firewall.
Strangely though, the troublesome laptop does work very smoothly when it's on a raw internet connection.
Thanks to you both for your answers.