@Captainkangaroo:
Thanks! Appreciate ur assistance!
@everyone:
Late last nite, roughly around 11pm-midnite, most of the problems I'd reported earlier when making the post seemed to slowly go away.
I'd already done several reboots of the MAG254, all comm. equipment, etc., to rule those things out numerous times
before making my initial post, but it didn't make any difference.
Later, close to 11pm and on thru around midnite last nite, which was easily 4 hours after my last reboot of all equipment, the nfps service for US Live channels started improving on its own.
I spot checked the same channels today (20 JUN 2016) at 7am, 10am and 4:15pm respectively, and most are still fairly stable from my observation of them as they began to improve late last nite. So....hopefully we're on the mend again. Sure hope it lasts for a long, looonnngggg time this time!
Update:
Uggghhhh...As of around 7pm Eastern, and continuing on as of the time of this post update, it looks like things are back to freezing/sucking again on many of the live US channels, just like they were yesterday around this time, even afer rebooting/powering off/on all equipment,
again...no gettin' around the freezing.
Dang it...Grrrrr!!!
MAG254 r14, 50Mbps Down, 10Mbps Up, Hard-Wired Portal
2 nfps