Yes I am waiting to see how Quboz turns out here in the USA once they roll it out.
Now I have my service sorted Tidal works well enough for me as they do have a goodly selection of rock both new and old. |
Still no issues so hopefully AT&T fixed it.
Sticking with Tidal for now |
Yea I did try the Spotify free service but sq was noticeably much worse than Tidal but I am on the $20 hifi Tidal subscription so no surprise.
Deezer looked like a good alternative, may wait for Quboz and then do a comparo.
At least Tidal appears to be streaming fine again for now after incoming line fix to get speed back up. |
Well last night went well
Wife watching Netflix in HD
Daughter watching Netflix in HD a different stream
Myself listening to Tidal masters albums
No dropout anywhere anytime
Fingers crossed.... |
The AT&T tech found that the issue was not truly just the modem as that addition only brought speeds up marginally to about 28mbps.
So he went on a mission ( great tech), checked my line box on my house, no problem there, went back to the street box, no problem there, then back to the main area distribution hub which was only 1000ft away and there he found the issues. He was working on that for over 2 hours not sure exactly what he did but he did say signal strength was now up considerably.
After his work a new speed check revealed 81mbps.and all seems to be well so far.
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@skoczylas
Are you in the USA?
What service level are you using? Premium or HiFi?
What is the sq like?
It sounds similar layout to Tidal, depending on the sq it might be worth a trial |
@kalali
Does the node 2 not stream itself like the vault 2 does? All the vault needs is its hard wired connection and that's it.
I have never examined the node 2 carefully tbh
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@kalali and carmenc
The node 2 offers both wireless and wired connection for internet I believe.
The wired should give a lot better results from what I hear.
@hgeifman
Excellent information, will be having long talks with the at&t tech on Sat for sure
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@ghosthouse
Knew it was not just me, remember a thread on it last year.
And same symptoms , late at night, never during the day.
Hopefully the new modem will help but going to check Spotify out as well, like to keep my options open.... |
I will likely still consider my options once speed is resolved anyway.
May give Spotify a trial and possibly Quboz once launched here...cannot stand Jay-z......lol |
So after talking with AT&T this morning it appears they made an oops!
When they upgraded my service to 75mbps (fastest available in my area), they "neglected" to inform me that they would also need to install a new modem to handle those higher speeds!
That is now occurring this Saturday and I also insisted on a refund for having paid for higher speed for 6 months and not having got it due to their error.
So will see how it fares after the new modem on Saturday which should allow the 75mbps to take place, thanks to all for the suggestions to tackle the base problem.
I "assumed" that as I had 75mbps service I was actually getting said service, see where assume got me here...... |
I think I am being stiffed by AT&T!
Just done two separate speed test, one of which was with the AT&T speed test itself
Both came back very close 22.8 mbps and 23.1mbps, that's hard wired speed.
Phone call is in order to AT&T tomorrow!
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@shadorne
You could have a viable point with the buffering, to tell the truth that is what it resembles now I think about it.
Not dropout as such as it usually picks right up again where it stopped, almost like it is having to buffer the feed and is lacking resource to do so.
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@stevecham
Oh for sure when Tidal is good it is VERY good, not the slickest interface but as mentioned if you know what you are looking for and want to listen to they have quite a catalogue.
@hgeifman
I did email Tidal about the lack of display of masters and got a very mealy mouth reply that basically it is what it is even though I asked just how hard would it be to tab all 5000 under the masters tab, surely a couple of strokes on some programmers keyboard?
That left a bad taste in my mouth.
@nonoise
HAHAHA |
I see choices for Deezer, Spotify, Quboz, Wimp, Napster, Slacker etc etc.
This is what I was aiming at, other services used by members at all?
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@hgeifman
It cannot hurt to have the ISP check the line out for sure, thank you |
As I said it is not my connection I believe.
Same connection supports 2 x Netflix hd streams, daughter on farcebook, Twitter whatever and me surfing the net ,it is fastest offered at my house.
The vault is hardwired, it does not even allow wireless streaming.
I did replace my router late last year when it started and there was a thread on here with people suffering same issue.
It made no difference.
@shadorne
You twist my words...
$20 is not expensive at all...IF you get the service you pay for. And no matter what Tidal customer service is sub standard.
5000 masters titles and can only be bothered to list 500 under the masters tab, the rest you have to hunt for so again not as good as could be.
Never hurts to see if the grass may be greener on the other side.
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