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#2449716 29-Mar-2020 20:08

Just tried the following channels (8pm) with zero issues and all started within 4 seconds of selecting them, and i wasn't using a DNS/VPN

TV1

TV3

ABC

SBS

Channel 10

Fox Sport

Sky News

Odroic C2, Libreelec running Kodi 18.2. connecting over Ethernet on a 70/30 VDSL connection.

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#2449717 29-Mar-2020 20:12

Jase2985:

Just tried the following channels (8pm) with zero issues and all started within 4 seconds of selecting them, and i wasn't using a DNS/VPN

TV1

TV3

ABC

SBS

Channel 10

Fox Sport

Sky News

Odroic C2, Libreelec running Kodi 18.2. connecting over Ethernet on a 70/30 VDSL connection.

Unfortunately the channels start playing fine, they always start playing near instant, its when you're sitting watching then suddenly out of the blue it happens. So this doesn't prove much :/

Has been good tonight though :)

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#2449726 29-Mar-2020 20:38

Whatever is causing this, it's real. I have had identical experience over the past few nights. It is worse during peak hours ca 8-10 pm, though also later. Other times it is fine.

At the moment it seems ok but I have it on lowest res because of the issues.

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#2449740 29-Mar-2020 21:04

I've just spent a few hours watching . . .

TV1
Aljazeera
BBC World

No issues at all . . .
And this is on a pretty low spec device (raspb pi 2B running OSMC/Kodi 18.6)

@ Rikkitic . . . for as long as I can remember you have been having buffering issues (long before everyone was staying at home) while nobody else has been seeing this . . . so I'm far from convinced that the issue is anything other than your own setup / isp problems

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#2449750 29-Mar-2020 21:12

Watching ABC news right now. Playing fine on lowest quality. Continuous buffering on highest. Speedtest local 29 Mbps, Auckland Spark 24 Mbps.

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#2449765 29-Mar-2020 21:25

farcus:

@ Rikkitic . . . for as long as I can remember you have been having buffering issues (long before everyone was staying at home) while nobody else has been seeing this . . . so I'm far from convinced that the issue is anything other than your own setup / isp problems

I had fantastic results on RBI for about a year. Then I started having problems that got steadily worse. Eventually the community concluded that it was mast congestion. I am now on a WISP, different ISP. Have had great results until recently. Overwhelming demand from enforced isolation is creating issues on some streams, especially overseas. Another poster here is also having problems. I said I was experiencing something similar. Others say everything is fine. There are many things that can cause this. I suspect a recent Kodi add-on but don't know. I am not an expert. We share experiences and learn from each other.

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#2449768 29-Mar-2020 21:32

But sharing the same fault over and over doesn't. It can cloud actual stuff

Your provider is likely not a big player and will severely lack the same handover and backhaul than the main isps. And infact likely paying for a slice from them

Speed test is only good for statistics. Local wep page loading or descent server file transfer

Streaming, a different ballgame as it needs it real-time, and not recoverable if gaps and the buffer depleated. Throw in dns, cache and peering. And it's peeing in the wind/likely different for each

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#2449775 29-Mar-2020 21:47

Rikkitic:

Watching ABC news right now. Playing fine on lowest quality. Continuous buffering on highest. Speedtest local 29 Mbps, Auckland Spark 24 Mbps.

ABC news playing fine here
Incidentally . . . how are you selecting different stream qualities?
In Simple IPTV I don't see any stream selection option.

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#2449783 29-Mar-2020 22:07

Just a quick update , The channels from FIJI that were GEO-Blocked previously are now open

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#2449803 29-Mar-2020 22:51

farcus:

ABC news playing fine here
Incidentally . . . how are you selecting different stream qualities?
In Simple IPTV I don't see any stream selection option.

There is an add-on that lets you merge playlists and gives you this functionality for NZ and OZ FTA IPTV streams. You can choose from a number of different resolutions from high to low. It works well to exchange buffering for quality but I suspect it may be creating some issues discussed here.

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#2450131 30-Mar-2020 15:51

Not much time to work on it

Now Prime Sports added (Which is a sports channel in Hong Kong) TV guide here

https://nowplayer.now.com/tvguide/channeldetail/630/1

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#2450183 30-Mar-2020 17:12

EuroNews via dailymotion, cracked its stream link (https://stream-01.sg1.dailymotion.com/sec(ZHW-kyIDNbzrgtZQEivCa1LW9vfLTX586D3di-KbVpo)/dm/3/x2j4h4m/s/live-3.m3u8)