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Streaming Radio 2 kills my Three Home Broadband

essayer

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This is a bit odd, so bear with me; I do have data to back it up!

I use 4G Home Broadband with a MF 286D from Three. Mostly works great, have line of sight to a mast so usually around 65MBps up/40 down.

Recently I've noticed periods where throughput plummets; although speedtest etc. show full speed, my actual browsing slows down, Citrix VPN keypresses take 5-10s to appear, etc. Actual transfer rate based on wget is <0.05MBps.

I have isolated the cause. Our Sonos speaker is set to play Radio 2 via Tunein; it streams from http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_two - and when it does, the throughput plummets.

I tested the stream from a PC, get the issue; throughput plummets when that stream is played.

Radio 1, Radio 3, any other streaming: fine; Radio 2 via BBC Sounds, is fine.

Weird, don't you think? Happy to listen to other sources of media, but does anyone else notice a strange slowdown when they stream Radio 2 via the link above?
 
I don't have a smart speaker so couldn't try it that way but I have no problem playing the link via my desktop PC and Huawei B818 router. My sim is Smarty which uses the Three network.
 
Is there something different about the R2 stream via Tunein, from the other streaming content? Possibly some sort of strange interaction with any QoS set on the router.
 
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