Up until the beginning of this week I was able to occasionally pull up a Twitch stream at work and have it running in the background. Now every stream I try to watch suffers constant buffering and eventually the video goes black and has a "Loading video..." message but never loads. I can restart my browser and the ads will play fine, but as soon as it gets back to the live stream, its right back to buffering after maybe 30 seconds of the video playing.
Here is the tracert to live.twitch.tv
Tracing route to live.twitch.tv [199.9.251.235]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms 5 ms 5 ms 66.194.214.129
2 59 ms 86 ms 54 ms 10.208.33.37
3 52 ms 14 ms 15 ms atl2-pr2-xe-0-1-0-0.us.twtelecom.net [66.192.249
.222]
4 19 ms 18 ms 18 ms ae-7.edge1.atlanta.level3.net [4.68.71.105]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
Something is obviously getting blocked somewhere, but I have no idea what.
And yes, this is at work, but I have verified that none of our network firewall settings here have changed in the past month and, as I said watching streams here worked last week.
*Edit - when I went to submit this topic, the website suggested related topics, one of which includes this page (http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/questions/5231252-sign-in-constant-buffering-sign-out-perfect) which states that when the OP logged out of their account, their buffering issues went away. This worked for me as well, but I need to be able to be logged into my account when watching as I try to also be fairly active in chat.
Any suggestions?
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