Can anyone who knows home networking help me track something down?
When playing games on the Steam Link app on our Apple TV, every eight minutes something causes the stream to stutter for a few seconds. I don't know what it is, and I don't know how to track it down.
I don't think it's the PC I'm streaming from, because I tried it from my Macbook too, and got the same result.
There are no other noticeable effects to the network. BBC radio streams flawlessly on the iPad in the kitchen, Plex/Jellyfin stream perfectly on the Apple TV.
I'm stumped as to what's causing it. The only difference to the network since it started happening was me installing Azuracast on my server, but I shut that down for a bit this evening and it still happened.
So, yeah, any ideas?
#Networking #Streaming #Gaming
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