4K streaming and super slow buffering

[bloomen]

I have a rather nifty laptop with a 4K screen but I'm finding 4K streaming to be unusable.

My internet is definitely not quick enough to stream it unbuffered, it's about 10-11 mbps or so, but the sluggishness with the buffering is definitely abnormal. I could easily leave it for an hour and I might have gained less than a minute of viewable video.

I've tried multiple browsers, both Vimeo and Youtube, and it's the same in all of them. Am I missing something obvious? Ten hours of waiting to view ten minutes of 4k youtube seems a tad excessive.

[mmm-five]

Are your browsers set up to limit the amount of local storage to either of those sites?

I sometimes get a pop-up asking me that a certain site wants to store more than the default amount (e.g. over 100mb or so).

[bloomen]

mmm-five said:

Are your browsers set up to limit the amount of local storage to either of those sites?

New one on me. I'll check that out. It makes sense.

[anonymous-user]

Worth checking if the graphics card is up to playing 4k, can you download a segment and make sure it plays correctly from local storage.

As you have already noted, your broadband is too slow to stream 4k.

[dave_s13]

Does it work ok with a hd stream, from netflix etc? If it works fine with that then it's likely an inherent incompatibility with the 4k streaming technology and your broadband speed, rather than a hardware or software issue.

Do you have another device you can test the uhd stream on your broadband??

You could try and download a 4k file and watch from local storage but that usually involves getting into illegal nzb techy stuff.

[bloomen]

HD streaming is perfect. The computer can play 4K just fine. It must be some sort of browser issue. The broadband can't keep up with 4k streaming no matter what.