Do You Use A VPN

by ccigas

How does everyone access their IPTV? Do you actually use a VPN or no?

I just joined up and noticed when I’m connected to PIA or Nord on my amazon fire tv and stream on the same device, the streams buffer a lot. Assigning my amazon fire tv with a gateway to my vpn server on my network works perfectly and is routed to Nords servers. I had this issue when I tried out Vader before it disappeared and now with DarkMedia. Honestly when I tried out beast this didn’t happen. Kind of curious if it also depends on the IPTV service server locations.

firebrothers69

I have seen buffering With and Without a VPN on the same IPTV providers tested back2back to see if it would make a difference. It comes and goes in waves and seems to be more in the evening EST time zone for me. (Tests run on 120Mbit cable)

leafsby2

I’ve never used a VPN so I can’t speak to how my services work with one. I would error on the side of it being the providers fault. I have tried loads of different providers and only a select few have no buffering.

totallihype

Where's the VPN running, openvpn uses loads of CPU and is only optimized for single thread performance. I am Not sure how strong the firetv CPU is however you should check it's not overloaded if so use wiregaurd. Since I set up my raspberry pi to use wiregaurd instead of openvpn it's been great.

gaminkake

I use OpenVPN on all my firesticks to watch IPTV. The thing you want to do is test the speed with the VPN on and off when iptv buffers. I've found that the major VPN providers mostly oversell and their connections are not great during the busy evening times.

gokuspreworkout

I live in U.S. and use BeastTV (used to use Vaders) on firesticks and through Kodi on my Xbox. Never used a VPN service and it's been about a year or so that I've been using IPTV. Never had a problem.

Legion123abc

Nope.

aybesea

No. I've tried them, but I don't see a need.