# Thursday night football on Prime. The sound keeps cutting off

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** football-nfl\
**Created:** [November 15, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thursday-night-football-on-prime-the-sound-keeps-cutting-off/1010271 "2024-11-15T01:40:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thursday-night-football-on-prime-the-sound-keeps-cutting-off/1010271/1 "2024-11-15T01:40:22Z")

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At any given time I use maybe 20% of my Internet bandwidth. So I know it’s not a me problem.

But the sound keeps cutting off intermittently for a couple of seconds at a time. It’s extremely annoying.

Anybody found a solution to this? I see on the Amazon forums other people have had the same question. But all they ever get is a broiler plate answer telling them to reset their modem. That doesn’t fix the problem I’ve tried.

Anybody else have this issue? Have you found a solution?

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thursday-night-football-on-prime-the-sound-keeps-cutting-off/1010271/2 "2024-11-15T01:45:20Z")

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I have not experienced that problem except on my crappy TV (but it usually only happens in the first few minutes of a show as the lousy TV seems to be catching up). It certainly is not a bandwidth issue as I am using around 3% of available bandwidth. My very good TV never has any problem (you get what you pay for to some extent).

My guess is this may be a WiFi issue. The signal strength is bad or something else tosses enough interference into the ether to cause it to drop.

Try a wired connection as a test (just run it across the house for the test). See if that helps.

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**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thursday-night-football-on-prime-the-sound-keeps-cutting-off/1010271/3 "2024-11-15T03:03:58Z")

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I haven’t had it happen.  
Likewise, as above poster says, everything that can be on ethernet in my home is on ethernet-- appletv, two laptops, desktop, another TV. The only things that use wifi are phones. I do not have a tablet.

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**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thursday-night-football-on-prime-the-sound-keeps-cutting-off/1010271/4 "2024-11-15T21:13:07Z")

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There was a funny red artifact for a few minutes, I think right after halftime, but I didn’t notice any sound problems.

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**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thursday-night-football-on-prime-the-sound-keeps-cutting-off/1010271/5 "2024-11-16T21:37:13Z")

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Our sound got very strange at one point but it came back. Our picture also went scrambled & blue for a few moments.