My ISP (Virgin) started cracking down on IPTV’s

by SaffronDon7

Sorry if this has been mentioned already but I was not able to find a correct answer for this. I live in Montreal and recently my ISP which is Virgin started blocking my iptv and several of other people that I know. At first, I tried relying on free VPN but it did not work, I paid for ExpressVPN changed my location to US and asked the person that installed the iptv for me to change my location on the backend as well and it worked for couple of minutes before going down again. Therefore not reliable either. I am at a point of considering to switch companies for my internet. The funny thing is Virgin is owned by Bell and none of the people that I know that have iptv and are with bell, they have no issues.

I would appreciate if anyone has any suggestions

milhouse2k

VPN should works, but not sure what you mean by changing in the backend. But generally as a user, turn on vpn on your side and it should be fine. Have you tried vpn with different locations and checking the speed as well? Other VPNs?

meriirong

Does your provider not allow vpn? You shouldn’t have to tell your provider anything. Try a different server location or new vpn provider.

BauerSteve

VPN should work. I am in Alberta and I need to VPN to Vancouver and it work fine. But I change ISP (TELUS) and no VPN now.

Mother_Perspective82

Turn off the security or homesafe settings on your router.

Skidood555

Im with Virgin in the Toronto area and no issues here yet. How do you know the ISP is causing your problem? I'd be very surprised if Virgin is responsible. I could see if Bell was your ISP since they want to prevent competition against their own streaming services but Virgin doesn't sell media as far as I know, and BTW technically Bell does not own Virgin, its (I imagine) just some kind of agreement where Virgin is using Bells infrastructure. Virgin itself probably doesn't have much interest in blocking IPTV. Just my opinion.