Having WRT3200ACM with freshly installed 24.10.4 and intermediate issues with IPTV provider(s) - It plays flawlessly on my TV for several minutes and then hangs for a few seconds before resuming. During today I can see no systematic in how often or when it happens. I upgraded from 22.03 to see if that fixed the issue but unfortunately no.
Obviously there are many places this can go wrong: TV, cables, switch, router, ISP, IPTV server, etc.
Vanilla OpenWRT 24.10.4, with nano and snmpd as the only extra packages. I installed without keeping configuration.
I do get the following lines in the log: No default route present, setting ra_lifetime to 0! but I guess that’s a different issue.
State:
- Netflix, Disney and HBO just works, no issues (do they have better implementations?)
- Both the IPTVs I have are stuttering some times (do they have worse implementations?).
- Cabled network from router to TV, same.
- Wireless dedicated WLAN5 from router to TV, same.
- Had igmpproxy on the previous installation: same (don’t think they’re using IGMP).
- Internet speed measures 800-900 Mbit/s both ways (no stuttering happened during those tests…)
- Router has almost no traffic (around the times when stuttering happens).
I wonder if I should try to hook the TV up directly into the fiber-modem 
Apart from getting the answer that fixes everything, I guess I’m asking for tips to troubleshoot where the problem is
How can I see if the problem is:
- before the router?
- on IPTV server side?
- on ISP side?
- on the router?
- after the router (cabling)?
Since Netflix, Disney and HBO just works, I’m inclined to believe that the problem is on the IPTV side, but then again, both of them?