Drama at Reboot - crazy ride!

by xgort

For those of you who aren’t subscribers of Reboot (paid IPTV Service) it’s CRAZY over the right now. I just subscribed about 2 weeks ago and was amazed at the quality and selection for about $15/ month. Last Thursday the service stopped working so I went on their private Facebook group to see what was up. Here is a basic listing of events.

From the Reboot team:

  1. We are under a DDOS attack, please hang tight.

  2. 3-4 days with no service and promises of being up very soon

  3. 2-3 more days of no service with promises of being up very soon.

  4. Posted – “we are back, go to this repo and load the new version, this is a great repo and will solve most future problems”

  5. Posted – “DON’T use the Repo we previously posted – you’ll be hacked” (or something similar)

  6. We will be back with a new repo soon, sit tight

  7. Somehow, some way someone started posting links of a new Repo or Addon and told everyone to use this new repo to load a new version. For context there are like 1-6 different admins on Reboot and it’s tough to tell who are Admins and who are just users.

  8. Posted “Don’t follow the links that someone posted, they are not admins, just scammers out to mess with us” So since there are many admins and it’s impossible to tell if someone is an admin or just a FB follower and posted links it became comical.

  9. Posted – We now have a new Repo (Mayfair?). Don’t use the repo we told you about 3-5 days ago, it’s garbage and won’t work. (WTH??). Use this new one, it's GREAT! yea right.

  10. The new repo seems to work for some and not for others.

Since I am only in for $15 it’s great entertainment to see this unfold. They really must have pissed off someone who is doing a rather nice job of messing with Reboot at every turn. The video’s that Omar posts on FB are funny since he always claims it’s no biggie and when they return they will be better than ever but then they get hacked again.

I wonder if this is a sign of things to come for other paid IPTV services. Either way it’s been real. I am bailing and will not renew. Who knows maybe they will get it sorted out and be back better than ever.

spotmark222

I don't believe they've been hacked at all. It's just a scam to string people along and keep collecting money. All these people on their FB page that keep posting "Reboot for Life" are either shills or just plain stupid, and they like giving their money away.

bayard0

Reboot may have had great HD quality streams, but that's about it. before the hack, they had to reboot the Reboot servers every day for whatever reason, so wasn't reliable at all....

There's lots of other IPTV providers that are more reliable then Reboot.

HERONHALL

On twitter they released address of someone for whatever reason. I tried them for 24hrs, it was good. Good quality and easy channel changes, but if you check their fb page - man its a soap opera. Slandering customers, attacking other providers and noone knows who is running the show. They also disable comments for threads where it starts to make them look bad. Another thing, if you go to their page ,they have over 15k members which does not necessarily translate into subs. I have been a member not subscriber more like a lurker for a while and noticed they change their privacy settings on and off. So it would mean anyone can join and they boost their numbers up. One would think, it requires special privileges to be part of them when that is not the case. Stick with guys like TORULA and SSTV. So far so good for me.

torulatv

too funny.

OriginalOne13

Their Twitter has been hacked too.

sloweb

Isn't Reboot Omar & Dexter? Why is anybody surprised at this. They have some of the worse reputations in IPTV for lying . . . . .

mardukeme

People says it's cause of his big mouth, I beleive they hacked his Twitter account too here are some screenshots. Been using Dexter without any issues lately. Not sure why Omar loves sticking ice cubes up his ass?

http://imgur.com/a/mMBvG

RanmaCanada

I've been happy with IPGUYS. They had a few issues a week or 2 ago due to DDOS, but since then everything has been smooth sailing.

Redman_Goldblend

Yeah it's been a mess, moving on to the next.

durpaholic

NFPS has been rock solid..

C00p3r187

Reboot is fucking garbage and is dying. Move on.

sdavillain

At lest they gave you the new repo at mayfair. I subscribed and got shit from the tech when I asked about the downtime, and never did get back up and running. Switched to Dexter (yeah I know)

elguaposghost05

I cancelled their service because they're dicks in denial.

Powrcase

Reboot/Gears TV is horrible.

  • Signed on for a month, was up for 4 days, the rest all bullshit stories, excuses and a broken add-on
  • They promised NHL center ice and never delivered, when I went to ask about it, got abused and spoken down to.
  • Others asking the same question were expected to "understand they have been going through problems", etc, etc. This is typical of their customer service.
  • Quality? 1080p when it works, which is almost never. Often buffers like crazy, even on great 100+ mbps wired connections.
  • Service is fronted by a barely literate ghetto liar that treats people like shit and talks down to his customers.

Avoid this service like the plague.

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