My Tablo is updated to the latest firmware and directly connected to my router with a cable. I have excellent ATT 1 gig fiber internet and a strong outdoor antenna setup.
Last night at 7:00 pm it would not load on my Roku ultra or my Android tablet. Multiple reboots over a 10 minute period and it finally worked.
This morning, it booted up almost instantly.
My initial response to this issue is a lack of server capacity on Tablo’s end.
Is anyone else seeing this problem?
Edit to add my wifi speeds average 500mps up and down.
Yes, we experience this same issue at times and we have a 1 Gb fiber setup with Novos. We have our TabloTV hardwired via Ethernet and have to switch back and forth between wifi and wired on the Roku to get some streaming services and TabloTV to work (as reported by my wife).
@ Danoman You are describing my Tablo experience. I have the ios and roku apps. It is what it is. Reboot everything, power cycle, clear roku cache, etc etc may improve the response, or may not. May improve, then an hour later it is stuck again. If it is not working after 5-10 seconds I close it and look at something else. When I come back later, an hour or next day, it may be the same or better or worse. I have given up hoping that the Tablo apps will just consistently start up and run like youtube, my local tv news streams, etc. It is what it is.
This is happening on all my apps, android, iOS, Apple TV. Is seems to have started with one of the last few firmware updates. I power cycle the device and after it boots, opening any of the apps takes a VERY long time to actually connect, sitting in the page just spinning. This is unusable now. Things were getting better until this started happening.
Is your tablo wireless or hardwired? Your streaming boxes, wireless or hardwired?
IF they’re wireless, I would confirm all your devices have good wireless signal.
Download Acrylic Wireless Analyzer on your laptop. Or WiFi Analyzer on Android. Walk around your home and see how your wireless splashes. Anything above -73 on the 2.4ghz band is the start of low wireless signal. If it gets any lower, you will fall off the wireless network.
If you have -73 or higher on the 5ghz, your devices are not roaming properly between bands.
Those sound like some great apps for computers or tablets/phones. A decent wifi analyzer for an android/fire TV is analiti Speed Test WiFi Analyzer. However, you’ll need to permit location access in order to get the details you’re talking about.
I see the same behavior. Not ONLY with app initial load times, but also trying to tune some channels (on multiple platforms, Apple TV, LG webOS). The problem is not WiFi related (see the OP who is on a wired network.)
Because of the way the problem intermittently presents, I agree with the OP that it at least partially seems like it’s server side related. It does seem to be worse since the most recent firmware update a few weeks ago as well.
