Why is my fire stick buffering so much
HOW TO STOP FIRESTICK BUFFERING FOR GOOD !! STREAM PERFECTLY !
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doing well
today we're going to cover how to try
and eradicate figure out why you may be
getting buffering
on your amazon fire sticks via tvs cubes
but you could use these sort of tips on
any device really
these are some like basic guides like we
are covering on this channel
but we want to try and figure out
because we get asked a lot how do i stop
everything buffering
buffering is probably one of the most
biggest pains in the ass if you're
trying to
stream watch tv do anything online
obviously movies tv shows
live stuff or can be an absolute pain so
we're going to run for a few different
things how we can look at this
how we might be able to help you and
also give you some reasons why you were
getting it
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buffering buffering buffering what is
the main cause for buffering
the main cause for buffering is your
internet guys your internet
yes we talk about overloaded streams
that host and things like that
but your internet people picking files
which are too big
for their internet okay so especially if
you're using certain streaming apps and
it will tell you the file size
you may say something like a one
gigabyte two gigabyte even all the way
up to 20 gigabyte content
depending on what sort of movie file it
is or what sort of sound file it has
built into it these files are huge guys
and but some people are trying to use a
20 gigabyte file
with only about a 20 megabyte speed and
that just does not add up guys so
you have to be really careful what
you're looking at and which sort of
files
you're trying to stream i always look
out on my
speed and i have high internet speed and
i still do not look at files over
maybe one to two gigabyte if you don't
know what i mean don't worry too much
about that guys
what we need is some good internet speed
so let's get some speed tests okay so
analytic speed test is a good
speed tester for your device um you can
get this directly from the amazon store
i will show you in a second
what this also shows you within it is
what you can do
guys okay for video stream type it will
tell you what you can do 720p
1080 1080p gaming 4k
everything you will get a kit a tick
right behind my head
all the way down to 8k guys the internet
speed wi-fi quality wi-fi stream it will
actually tell you
if it is strong enough to do what you're
wanting it to do guys okay that's cool
yeah we'd recommend you should do it
more than one test just to get an
average speed but
you can clearly see there that i have
plenty of speed to do everything i want
my opinions for any real decent speeding
you want around 20 to 30 guys
if you want to be streaming anything
1080p you want
some people say you can have it as low
as 10. i think that's too low have
around
technically 1080p should be 10 megabytes
4k 40 megabytes that sort of thing
but i'd say get around 20 megabytes
minimum on your download speed
and you should be able to watch like a
1080p find
30 to 40 megabytes you should be able to
get a low lower quality one of the lower
quality is 4k
and anything up to 50 to 60 megabytes
you should be able to get solid 4k
ultra high definition streaming but you
have to be very careful on the file size
like i said before
so this speed tester is actually
available
directly in the magnifying glass guys so
just type in analyti
and you'll see speed tests are available
there and wi-fi analyzer that will also
tell you
if your signal is strong whether it's
weak whether you should consider maybe
wiring your fire stick in
with some adapters things like that that
is the main
problem you guys will have it's 100 is
your speed it's a
links you pick this is also you could
look at things like real debrides and
things like that which people use
depending on what streaming apps you use
i mainly use official apps here
so one great bit of advice for you guys
if you're struggling with
buffering use official apps don't use
third party apps use official apps
i'm not saying you shouldn't use them
that's up to you guys what you do is
your thing but something like netflix
um netflix you know and youtube things
like that the way they work is
they alterate the frame rates the
resolutions
to make it work for you so if your
speed's running low you will get shown
the quality of the stream for your speed
quality
okay so if your speed's only quick
enough for a 480p
netflix will give you a 480p show if
your speed's good enough for the 4k show
it will give you the 4k
show so your buffering is practically
eradicated because it does the work for
you
okay youtube do the same you will find
the same things with some like iplayers
all your official apps will do that sort
of stuff
third party apps you pick the stream
yourself you pick the quality you pick
the stream so
that's your responsibility and then some
people with a low speed say oh i'm
connected internet will pick a movie
file which is five to ten gigabytes
which their internet cannot handle if
your internet is struggling
before you start trying to stream
something turn everything off in your
house guys
turn all your other devices off tablets
phones everything disconnect them from
that
bandwidth you have 20 devices on your
lower speed internet the bandwidth will
be
split between them so your five state
will not be getting the full speed and
the full connection
and the full bandwidth which will also
then relate to buffering
i understand that is your big one to
watch out for guys speed test
other things you can look at is
obviously processes running on your fire
stick
your fire stick itself can be overloaded
can have too much going on so there's
not enough free memory to actually
build up your buffer so you need a bit
two different things you need a little
bit of storage
so first go to your settings
go to the my fire tv sorry
about and in here just check the storage
see i've got 681 megabytes free there
that is enough
but i always say you should keep a
gigabyte free if you can
what you need spare storage for is when
you are streaming something no matter
what you are streaming off with official
or third party
you download some form of buffer guys
okay so that is a temporary file
downloaded onto your device
which is a bit which you buffer up ready
to watch in advance so you watch that
bit
you watch that bit and then it deletes
itself so that's why it's a temporary
file so you watch a little bit then it
deletes downloads another bit deletes
so technically we've brought this up
before the streaming is some form of
downloading
but we're going to get onto that another
day so you need to have some space there
what you also need is no background
processes running there's a couple of
different apps you can get on this
there's fast task killer um you can
check my channel out we've done an
install guide on this before
this just kills apps in the background
and everything running guys okay so that
will kill any processes running in the
background to speed up your device
the link for that video is above now if
you wanted to install fast task killer
okay it is also on the channel another
one you could also get
is developer tools menu from your amazon
store
developer tools menu
here you can open this one up or install
it
and in here what you can actually do is
list background apps and processes
it will ask you to download of another
app if this is the first time you're
using it and you can close these apps
running in the background if you want to
so we've got a couple that we hadn't
opened today so you click it you four
stop
you go back um i leave my vpns on
it's personal opinion i have mine
running before stop it
and obviously you can four stop this one
as well
perfect again coming
off of that that's your fire stick now
running at the best spec you know your
internet speed and what you're able to
do
be careful obviously with vpns you could
end up lowering your speed with certain
vpns i'd still recommend using a vpn
but it can cut your speed so what you
can do is make sure you get some of the
better vpns guys okay
on our channel we have obviously links
to ipvanish which have just boosted all
their speed servers
so they're a lot faster than they used
to be at 3.33 a month
and obviously obviously you're under
great speed i can still pull 80 to 90
megabyte download speed with privacy
which is huge
really considering over a wi-fi for a
vpn so that's one dollar a month that is
linked directly underneath as well guys
check those two out if you want a vpn
something like ipvanish actually has
split tunneling
so if you didn't want to use it on
certain official apps you can split
tunnel a signal
um which we will cover in a later video
so do subscribe if you want a video like
that so that means the vpn's only on
first maybe your
unofficial apps but on your official
apps you don't have your vpn on for it's
your choice which one you have it on for
you can pick the apps so you don't have
to just turn it on off on off you can
pick the apps it specifically works for
which is a great little tip
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