Live HLS m3u8 stream from encoder server Stutter/Jumps around

I'm still at a loss of the purpose of a secured link to access a video that is free for people to watch..
Seems to me to be a whole lot of unnecessary overhead.

Anyway, I created the issue and found he cause.

Here is what happened. On my roku 4 ultra on my back deck it started stuttering, buffering and complaining I need to check my wifi network. I was perplexed because I just left the living room where it was playing just fine on my TCL roku TV. So I checked the wifi, found no problems, found no problems with the internet connection either, but for kicks and whistles ran a cat6 directly to it, same issue..

Then about 6 hours later my roku 3 in the garage started doing it, but the Living room tv was fine and so was the roku 4 ultra in the bedroom, no network errors could be found. Also setup the laptop and played the same stream from my website and had no issues with it sitting on the same netowrk segment as the roku.

Then a few hours later my bedroom started doing it.. Now I was at a loss.. And then it dawned on me.

I checked the software version number on the roku 3 and 4's, they were all 9.4.1..
The TV was 9.3..

So I ran a update check manually on the TV and it updated to 9.4.1..

And bam, the problem began..

It stopped doing it for a few hours the other day and then went right back to doing it. it is also doing it on some channels on the sling app as well.. I complained to sling, they got a tech on the phone with me, we ran 3 hours of trials and tests, we found that it only happens on the rokus, it does not happen on the amazon fire box, apple tv box and 3 of my android tv players.

The roku stream tester passes the stream as well.

This hls stream has been streaming for over 5 years and is consistently good.

I wish I could roll back from the update.