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richms

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#2667923 4-Mar-2021 20:30

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Doesn’t apply here though does it? Assuming OPs internet is up to snuff overall and that it is only impacting some channels...

Yeah but their probably questionably legal TV provider will not be doing any troubleshooting to determine that and just use it as a get the ticket closed solution for a complaining customer.

There is a good chance it may solve it even if it just results in the playback coming from a different source with less congestion, or the VPN chosen has a better path out of the other country that it is in back to the customer than direct bandwidth from the data center that the stream source has. For a while, till the unpredictable nature of the internet changes performance and that path now sucks more and a different VPN provider is "better"

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frudrew

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#2667941 4-Mar-2021 20:56

freitasm: Not the case here.

Question to OP: are you using WiFi?

I use WiFi for my firestick. I get 220mbps download.

I know speed is not an issue.

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#2668092 5-Mar-2021 09:41

The nature of the Internet. Routes constantly change, sometimes multiple times during the day.

As @richms pointed out some "IPTV providers" are piracy outfits and not really prepared for supporting customers so they throw around the "use a VPN" solution. The VPN may or may not help as it will basically use different routes and mostly will use UDP instead of TCP. But at the end if the VPN fails you will have to search for something else.

Sorry, I am out of suggestions - someone else might have other ideas.

frudrew

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#2668122 5-Mar-2021 10:21

freitasm:

The nature of the Internet. Routes constantly change, sometimes multiple times during the day.

As @richms pointed out some "IPTV providers" are piracy outfits and not really prepared for supporting customers so they throw around the "use a VPN" solution. The VPN may or may not help as it will basically use different routes and mostly will use UDP instead of TCP. But at the end if the VPN fails you will have to search for something else.

Sorry, I am out of suggestions - someone else might have other ideas.

No, you're quite right I think.

Another admin at the provider has said that VPN shouldn't make a difference with Live TV so I think the issue is entirely on their end and the other admin doesn't know what they're doing.

Thanks anyway. This has all been really helpful!

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#2679638 24-Mar-2021 10:07

So rather than create a new post, I was wondering if anyone uses a decent "cheap" VPN or proxy server provider?

I'm not looking for high performance, just want to have my home proxy server go through a proxy (static IP at home)

I am using ProtonVPN free service, but the free servers get slow/clogged and I don't use it enough to pay €50 annually

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