topic Freezing and grainey in Sky Stream

Freezing and grainey

Sunnyspain16 — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:26:15 GMT

Had enough of sky streaming. We were with

Now and it was brilliant(part of Sky) but we have switched to Sky streaming. It keeps saying it's not connected to the internet or it buffers or freezes and when you watch sky sports you can't recognise the footballers as they are so grainey. We watched better football in Spain on sky in a bar. My husband wants to watch football today and can't get sky sports. Really had

enough of it. Paying good Mo he for a rubbish service

Re: Freezing and grainey

TimmyBGood — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:17:05 GMT

@Sunnyspain16 wrote:

We were with Now and it was brilliant(part of Sky)

Now runs at lower resolution and so has less bandwidth demand

but we have switched to Sky streaming. It keeps saying it's not connected to the internet or it buffers or freezes and when you watch sky sports you can't recognise the footballers as they are so grainey.

Presumably because WiFi speed arriving at the puck is inadequate

We watched better football in Spain on sky in a bar.

That would typically be rather naughty satellite reception falling on a really big dish.

My husband wants to watch football today and can't get sky sports. Really had

enough of it. Paying good Mo he for a rubbish service

It's speed arriving at the puck which you'd need to investigate.

Re: Freezing and grainey

Hunter2660 — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:27:36 GMT

Open Netflix, go to settings, and click on "check my network". that will give you the speed the puck is actually receiving.