I have two subs which I consider to be very reliable however I’ve noticed the more obscure a channel is the less stable it is. For example I can watch sky sports/bt sports all day with no buffering but I’ve been trying to watch the cricket World Cup on willow tv and star sports but they’re forever buffering/cutting out on both providers. ( I can’t have sky sports on in my business premises) Is this something other people find? Do the providers put more resources into the most popular channels??
They do have different channels on different servers so its possible your provider has put the more obscure ones on slower servers that then can't handle it. Or the supplier for those channels is just not very good and the issue is coming from source which I suspect is the case here if it is doing it on 2 different providers.
Server balancing. More popular channels are going to get more resources.
Not necessarily. Since everything is digital, there sgould be "no quality loss from source to destination," meaning the only explanation I think there is is wherever your reseller gets their channels is bunk. Literally the dude who captures the channel is doing something wrong after capture (I mean technically or strategically).
You are allowed to watch your illegal Willow streams at work but not your illegal Sky Sports ones?