@Exiled-in-HH you have a point services for exampke You Tube use an approach called rate adaptive streaming where the picture quality is dynamically reduced where the data stream cannot maintain throughput.
This was a common approach when broadband and home networks speeds were a problem. The Stream platform has been developed for the forseeable future where home broadband speeds should be more than adequate as full fibre is rolled out and home networking is improving greatly so the relatively modest bandwidth requirements for video streaming are no longer such a barrier.. Comcast have not explained their thinking on this but I assume they are aware of the issue hence the production of products such as Sky Wifi Max given they are heavily involved in broadband and networking in multiple markets.
Another approach is a larger physical buffer in the puck but that would further increases latency which for a service where live streaming of sport is major selling point is not acceptable. As far as I know most similar platforms like iPlayer, Freely. ITVX etc use the same general approach.
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65inch Sky Glass, 3 Sky Streaming Pucks, Sky Ultrafast + and Sky SR213(white Wifi Max hub) main Wifi from 3 TP-Link Deco M4 units in access point mode
