Mag box vs fire stick

[Taylerlee]

Going back to the OP post, Id be more inclined to guess they have a not too great IPTV sub, and that changing box might not make things any better.

My closed group IPTV provider has been about for 4 years, and Ive used them for 2, with the amount of issues encountered being on one hand.
And, over that time Ive used even 1st gen Firesticks with 1080p 60fps US feeds perfectly, so the buffering will almost certainly be down to the providers feed.

My set up just now is a Fire stick, 2nd gen (with Alexa voice), a 4k stick, and two 2nd gen Fire tv 4k boxes (the good ones with the usb, microSD and ethernet sockets) - all with zero buffering.

Agree with all of the above, would suggest problems in the main arise from poor suppliers. I currently have a firestick 2nd gen on stb emu with wi fi connection, a Smart Stb app on Samsung TV, hard wired, and a Mag 256 on home plugs and I get virtually no buffering at all. The worst I get is 1 or 2 losses during a very popular football match such as Man United but nothing at all most of the time and vod has never buffered. That is from 3 different suppliers (dont ask me why - its reducing to 2 soon).

 

[formandvoid]

Mag box all day,trouble free .

 

[RustyMG]

You HAVE read the Magbox news?!

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-iptv-services-will-be-blocked-says-set-top-box-manufacturer-181230/

Anyone thinking of buying a Magbox just now until the situation is clarified is insane in my opinion.

Sure, might be a fuss about nothing.....but......