Back in the dreambox era, it was not an acceptable thing at all, hence you have multiple lines and different providers. However I did notice people advertising their IPTV services with "minimal buffering", so what is the deal these days? What is acceptable and what is not?
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I use gears no buffering for me.But you are right almost all iptv buffer.I hate it. we need to hold them 2 a higher standard if they want are money.
I've noticed that everyone who is having buffering problems never talks about using HLS instead of TS and a proxy like http://www.hls-proxy.com/ I user vaders any never have any problems.
If you want to try HLS with vaders just modify your url to read as follows " http://api.vaders.tv/vget?username=myusername&password=mypassword&format=m3u8 "
Generally all you need to do is change the format= section of the url. If you need help setting up hls-proxy just ask
All providers are going to buffer, and especially as they gain any type of popularity (or speed up the server load process by offering multiple low/no cost connections). Even the best and most stable ones out there are going to at least have a few days throughout the month where it's more noticeable then others as well. Anybody claiming different is either barely watching enough Live TV to notice, or just plain lying.
With that said, what you deem as an "acceptable" amount is obviously going to be subjective. Some people like myself like their HD feeds as much as anybody else, but also want less frequent buffering first and foremost. Others are willing to sacrifice more in the name of getting a better overall min/max picture quality feed. With a *very* general rule of thumb being the higher the offered picture quality - the higher the all-things-equal surrounding probability is that a provider is going to run into buffering issues. Balance tends to be key there. Which on that note is something that gets lost in a lot of the fairly random providers popping up that look great on the surface but run like crap underneath, and why you'll continuely see the same 7 or so providers here get a lot more regular non-reseller recommendations who do a better job at finding that consistent balance.
Buffering still exists, but it has gotten a lot better the last couple of years. Based on my experience it seems that there is never going to be a buffer free experience with illegal IPTV services. There are too many variables to consider like the variety of o/s out there, hundreds of different devices and hardware like modems and routers. Then you have all of the different ISP's to consider. One IPTV service might stream perfectly for one person but suck balls for another just because of the differences listed above.
No it is not acceptable. The last time I had buffering with ANY service was when Star Trek Discovery was on. Apparently so many people were watching it in real time, that every single provider was being brought to their knees. Since that time, I haven't experienced buffering to that extent.
StreamZ TV ( https://streamzent.live/ ) is solid and very little to no buffering 99% of the time. The buffering I have experienced has been on some channels specifically sometimes. Other than that, I have caused myself to buffer by stressing my network with other things going on whilst trying to watch TV. I am of the thought that for the small amount of $$$ paid for most IPTV services, you cannot expect 100% no buffering and TOP notch quality. There is nothing to back up these things at around $20/month for most services. My $.02 cents...
I don't mind buffering as long as it's no more than 30 seconds which I what get with IPTV Express.
I miss Ace-IPTV. Best IPTV-service ever. Never any buffring and freezing. Seems impossible to find a reliable and stable IPTV-service these days.
Yeah, Cartoon Network has been buffering a lot lately on eternal iptv ...Anyone have any recommendations for a non buffering cartoon network USA iptv??? ty
Buffering leads to a blame game. IPTV provider will blame the customer's connectivity - web speed, wrong hardware or ISP throttling. Sometimes it is true and sometimes not.
Last night vaders was buffering. I ran a different service and zero problems.