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Cable is so far behind others
TLDR version of my issue is that I have several group chats with friends about sports, and my cable has recently lagged so far behind theirs. They send text messages about plays happening 20-30 seconds before I even see it (some even have Xfinity). I don’t stream either. This is a cable plugged directly into the coax wall plate.
This is a fairly recent issue. What gives?
MNtundraRET
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3 years ago
Over the air is always the fastest. The signal will be slower with splitters, length of cable, type of television, setting used on the TV, age of cable in your neighborhood, amount of traffic using your local cable. This has always been the case since TV's were invented. No way to sync all tv's even in your home.
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user_JWCU
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3 years ago
Y’all the issue is this is a fairly recent occurrence and it’s not a trivial delay, like you’d come to expect here and there. There have been times in the past when I’ve been on the phone with someone, and I hear something happening 5-10 seconds before it happens in my TV. However, right now, my friends are seeing plays (on the very same cable provider) a full half minute before me… whereas before we’d experience them at nearly the same exact time — no variables have changed.
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