What other streaming services do you recommend besides Tidal?
Here is the link to a spreadsheet of Tidal’s MQA albums: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T0xnOzPQZai32L7R7e_uzxfBqhXrPuXh3USOjvuztYg/edit#gid=1176054952 |
I was having problems with Tidal on gigabit service (verified to hundreds of Mbps to multiple testing destinations). I read about issues of ISP’s DNS services interfering with Tidal, and recommending switching to OpenDNS or Google DNS. I put Google on my router and my issues went away. Went back to default and problems returned. A year went by and I upgraded my router and left DNS at the default ISP offering and the problems had gone away. Perhaps the ISP changed behavior or Tidal changed algorithms. You don’t need much BW for Tidal. But just because you have sufficient BW to your location doesn’t mean there isn’t congestion or throttling elsewhere. Or that some DNS games are not interfering (I know it sounds like superstition). |
uberwaltz, Node2 does stream and supports both WiFi and hardwire Ethernet connectivity. The original question/concern was about Tidal dropouts and my comment was that even with a good/fast broadband speed, the likelihood of dropouts can still vary depending on what device does the streaming, e.g., Node2, windows laptop, MacBook, etc. |
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. |
