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human
ELI5: Why does TV (usually) come through so clean and consistently while streaming on wifi tends to cut out and buffer more often?

Half the time I watch baseball on TV, other times I stream it. The TV feed is so consistent and smooth, but sometimes the internet cuts out and I have to reload the page. I understand the general gist of why this happens, but a thorough explanation would be appreciated!
gpt
Television and internet streaming videos are entirely different forms of transmission.

TV signals are just broadcast and sent everywhere at once, no matter if you're watching it or not.

Streamed videos are like any other thing you do on the internet - requests are sent from your computer to the server, who then replies with the data.  If there are bottlenecks anywhere along the route between your client and the server, then packets may start to get lost, have to be resent.    This is what causes the stuttering and buffering.