Do TV streaming services get “overloaded”?
 

My Netflix keep crashing. I get that “unable to upload” message. Is that because everyone is at home rubbing their bellies trying to binge watch done show?

When my apple TV does that rebooting helps

Maybe. It mostly depends on your ISP and your service plan. Most content providers have the infrastructure in place to handle surges in consumption.

Netflix in particular uses elastic computing with AWS, if their resource pools start to meet a particular metric they scale up or down as necessary. AWS has nearly limitless compute available, Netflix uses around 100k instances daily.

Funny, our Netflix account on one Apple TV crashed yesterday and asked us to sign in... password wouldn’t work yesterday or today. Tried reboot etc and no dice. (Pandora crashed on same Apple TV. Had to delete and reinstall to get stations back)

Several other devices on same Netflix account worked fine.

Wifey logged into account this am and password reset seemed to work right until...”sorry not available now please try again later” WTF?

My guess is too many of us trying to watch at the same time...

I did a one month free trial of Apple TV Plus because I wanted to watch the motorcycle adventure series The Long Way Up. I was very disappointed that their content would either not load or would load at very low resolution. I thought Apple would be able to handle the demand better. I’ve never had problems with Netflix or YouTube.

I went to a cable instead of a wireless connection. That solved my problem, which got a lot worse recently. My provider suggested that I either update my wireless adapter or go straight to cable. I had to get a USB adapter for a cat5 cable, as I have yet to find an Ethernet port on my computer. It may be there, I just couldn't find it. Spectrum said my speed was fine, but I couldn't even get on the internet while on the phone with them.

Remind me the last time a service provider said ‘it’s our fault things are slow’
Optimum - who I had the misfortune of having for a while - have the twin towers of notorious unreliability and awful customer service.
Their lines are shared rather than dedicated, and it shows. They were unusable during the evening.

I would never use a wireless connection on any device that requires performance. If it works, fine... if it isn't acceptable ... plug in a cable.

Wireless is for convenience/mobility ... not throughput ... take yer pick.

I don't stream .... just offering my "network experience" opinion.

I get a frozen screen on Sling sometimes, it's just with the ESPNs and ACC network. Mine is hardwired and the other channels don't seem to have the same issues.

Our YoutubeTV has been buffering a lot the last 4-5 days. Didn't do it before .

Ethernet cable here too. Changing from ATT to Spectrum also improved reliability.

sI noticed soon after the stay-at-home orders came about that Netflix was unusable in the evening. I solved the problem by canceling.