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nunz

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#161844 21-Jan-2015 15:39
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We, like a lot of other people got the free trial. I have 100/30 fibre, 2ms ping rates, gigabit networking in huse nad a blooming fast PC to watch on.

Three programs viewed.
1 - Incredibly lossy, looked worse than a camera filming a tV.
2 - New video - paid $6.99 for it.   lossy as hades especially in the darker scenes. Stalled once.
3 - Another new video. Better quality. Stalled 4 times in 15 minutes.

Ssent message to Quickflix help.
told them.
100/30 fibre. Quad core fast Pc with 2GB graphics card.
No antivirus running.
No other devices connected
Commercial grade routers in place
Cat6  / cat5e cabling, checked and double checked.



Seems my Pc or antivirus or firewall or internet connection is the problem - not the crappy servers delivering it.  I guess that's why I get such great feeds from overseas pirated sites but get crud from Nz based streamers.

I wont be continuing with them any further.  Bad content delivery - dumb butt help desk support.


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  #1219295 21-Jan-2015 16:17
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So overall would you rate it good or bad?



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  #1219300 21-Jan-2015 16:26
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The free pizza was good though

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  #1219317 21-Jan-2015 16:56
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Quickflix = garbage! Thanks for confirming my opinion :)



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  #1219361 21-Jan-2015 17:46
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It is a bad service with very limited content for the all you can eat base rate. Far better quality paid content is available for the same money from Xbox Video, Apple, Android etc. It is going to be the first casualty once netflix gets here and Australia I think. 




Try Vultr using this link and get us both some credit:

 

http://www.vultr.com/?ref=7033587-3B


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  #1220423 22-Jan-2015 22:20
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kiwitrc: So overall would you rate it good or bad?

 


Umm ... and the third option is?    I would need to resort to one of those German habits of adding a million verbs together to make a word that sounds like a sneeze being throttled in a can flattening machine in order to render my opinion.


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  #1220429 22-Jan-2015 22:23
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When Quickflix was added to TiVo we signed up for the two month free trial. We didn't finish the trial, watched a couple of movies and found the performance so bad we simply gave up on it.




Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.


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