Epl block

[Idledawn]

Decent suppliers you have to pay for,
I was reluctant to pay £'s but , at least when there's an issue
This team are top dogs & can't fault them
I do use back up , and unfortunately i'm getting what i pay for but it's watchable "at times"
Search & test
good advice on here off some fine people
Very good people infact
Idledawn

 

[pupuqiop]

My supplier is a re-seller, the server guys have been working on trying to find a fix at their end since the blocks started so it's obviously not just as simple as putting on a VPN at their end.

I signed up for a VPN, my supplier put it directly onto my zgemma h2s using teamviewer so it's only on the device it needs to be rather than affecting other devices if it was on the router. He set up a website to tell us when streams are up or down. And the VPN I signed up for at a cost of just over a fiver a month will be shared between three boxes(mine, my parents and my mates) as the subscription allows for up to five devices at a time, at any location. Makes it an absolute pittance to pay, and it's not a bad thing to have on your box anyway.

All this talk of 'bad sellers' makes me laugh, they probably did a bunk because of customers who didn't know what they were talking about hassling them to wave a magic wand and solve it all instantly.

 

[SciManG]

Haven't had a problem with ISP blocks but I still use a VPN, because at the end of the day we are streaming content illegally and I would rather not make it easy for my ISP or whomever to track what I am doing.
Call me paranoid ;):)

 

[Toby0810]

There are two separate issues here,
a) the big boys and their re-streamers are being targeted by the courts and the main ISPs are blocking their URLs (as widely publicised).
b) the "3PM on Saturday" problem is caused by other IPTV providers who are launching DDOS attacks against their rivals. This has been going on for years on a smaller scale.

Whilst a VPN will circumvent an ISP block, if the URL is "down" through a DDOS attack, the VPN can't help

Any decent provider should be able to "move" their server URL with a VPN at their end but it would impact the service because the multiple "hops" between IP addresses will slow things down. The only real solution is for them to move their servers to a new URL (meaning every subscriber will need to change their setup) but guess what's going to happen when the new URL is made public??