I am fairly new to Kodi and it is throwing some real challenges at me. The biggest one is my streaming speed. I have been experimenting with different installations on different devices. But Kodi is very slow for me on all of them. Yet my browser speed tests all report that my connection speed is more than sufficient.
I just ran a comparative test using Indigo on Kodi 17.4. One installation is on a Chinese Android box running Android 6. The other is on Windows 7. Both Kodi installations give me very poor speed tests, around 2-3 Mbps with a score of 2 out of 10. This is probably accurate because I have constant issues with buffering and low resolution.
Yet I just ran two Windows browser speed tests at the same time using Ookla and DSLreports. Both give me constant download speeds of 25-30 Mbps, which is normal for me. When streaming with the browser I don't have buffering or resolution issues. I do sometimes briefly see pixelation as the adaptive streaming reacts to speed changes. I am on RBI and my speed does fluctuate a lot, but the average is always well over the 2-3 Mbps reported by Indigo.
Can anyone shed any light on this? It is really frustrating. Why are my streaming speeds through Kodi so much worse than with the browser? I really need to understand what is going on here.
Perhaps I should add that I have also experimented with an older Kodi version to see if that would make any difference, but I get the same results with 16.3. I would really appreciate some help here.