Best Way To Deal With Buffering Online Streams

Did my google search, but wanted to ask here as well.

I’m watching some live streams off BR in Germany and although they do run fine for about 10 minutes or so, they do stop a couple more times - for a long time.

The easiest-sounding way I have read about is to pause the stream for about a minute after it begins and then restart it.

I’ve done this once and it worked, but I wonder if I just got lucky.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

Q