Afraid this is another "what box should I buy" thread but I'm a little confused on what direction to go.
The consensus seems to be a Mag 254 but it doesn't appear that you can set up a VPN with it if needed. The main purpose of this box is for Premier League football and with the problems that some of the IPTV services appear to have encountered so far this season with channels going down on weekends caused by certain ISP restrictions a VPN may become a necessity in the not too distant future.
So with that said, it seems to be either go for an Android box or go for something more like a conventional set top box thats based on another operating system yet open enough to use VPNs. It's for someone who isn't tech savvy in the least and so I was thinking something along the lines of a Zgemma H2S where you can install a Sky like EPG and interface that will be easy to use. But then on the other hand is a box like this overkill since the sat tuners etc. won't be used and would a cheaper Android box with Kodi (or a better App to set up an EPG) suffice?
Also, I'm a little confused at appraising specs of boxes when people recommend a Mag 254 with a 512 MB RAM but then say an android box with 1/2 GB like this may struggle?
Anyways, thanks for the patience, this post wasn't meant to be this long.
TLDR; if not a Mag 254 should I go for a Zgemma or android box?
The consensus seems to be a Mag 254 but it doesn't appear that you can set up a VPN with it if needed. The main purpose of this box is for Premier League football and with the problems that some of the IPTV services appear to have encountered so far this season with channels going down on weekends caused by certain ISP restrictions a VPN may become a necessity in the not too distant future.
So with that said, it seems to be either go for an Android box or go for something more like a conventional set top box thats based on another operating system yet open enough to use VPNs. It's for someone who isn't tech savvy in the least and so I was thinking something along the lines of a Zgemma H2S where you can install a Sky like EPG and interface that will be easy to use. But then on the other hand is a box like this overkill since the sat tuners etc. won't be used and would a cheaper Android box with Kodi (or a better App to set up an EPG) suffice?
Also, I'm a little confused at appraising specs of boxes when people recommend a Mag 254 with a 512 MB RAM but then say an android box with 1/2 GB like this may struggle?
Anyways, thanks for the patience, this post wasn't meant to be this long.
TLDR; if not a Mag 254 should I go for a Zgemma or android box?