Reseller Broadcast Delay

Question

I was on Telegram and found an interesting question I'd like to post. Please forgive me if this has been hashed out already.

I have two services, one serves as my primary and the other my back-up, or if I have company over we watch streams in different parts of the house.

I've noticed there would be a broadcast delay one of the streams, of course I experience similar with Directv, but more like miliseconds, rather than up to a 30 sec delay.

So question is how close to the source can one get if I'm buying from a reseller who restreams from source?

e.g. Main source to say 5 site sellers = 5 restream --> reseller--> restream...etc.

So links can experience huge delays.

I hope I posed that question correctly. And also is their a way to tell how far down a service is?

eLus1ve_ · Accepted Answer

Its IPTV, there is ALWAYS going to be a delay. Doesn't matter who you get it from, EVERY service will have a delay. IPTV is just rebroadcasted tv. Rebroadcasting = delay. Some will be better than others depending on their servers, their sources and your network.

Over38 · Answer

Even the source for the reseller can get their streams from somewhere else- also reseller servers could be located in different locations causing a slight delay

Sporthull · Answer

I had one provider that was 2mins behind my other 20s it's a pain for live sports when you hear next door cheering the football before it's happened your end!