scotland2017
Newbie
I have had a Firestick since late last year. Earlier this year I put Kodi on it myself and was using free plugins but it took ages for anything to load up, also it was a lot more difficult to use as I only wanted to watch TV and that's what my Dad wants to do as well, as long as we can watch TV and the local football games we are happy.
After a while I got hooked up with someone doing their own thing and I used their version of Kodi and their plugins and it was fine but there was a lot of buffering issues as usual, stuff not loading and it was only by chance I noticed this thing called IPTV. I mentioned this to them and that I wanted to try it, I got the app, gave them the code and they activated it and it was a lot better. I'll never forget them telling me that if this didn't work it might be time to reset the Firestick because most of the people they dealt with had Firesticks and they weren't getting the kind of problems I was. They had EPGs and I could never get any EPG to load up correctly so I blamed myself.
The problem is that while it is a lot better I still get buffering issues, some channels load up right away and others take a while to load or not load at all. The Sky Sports channels seem to work great, there are HD and FHD and even the FHD versions work great a lot of the time. Netflix streams in 1080p no problem, never a connection issue there but some of these IPTV channels either stop or the little circle appears and then it replays what you watched 10 seconds prior.
I have fibre broadband, obviously the Firestick needs wifi. My signal is Very Good, a few times I've noticed it say Good then a few seconds later it goes back to Very Good. The TV is at one end of the living room, because of the way I have things wired in other rooms, the router is at the other side but it's in the same room as the main TV which is where we use the Firestick. The router is on the floor and it's inbetween 2 Ikea Kallax shelving units which holds records and DVDs and blu rays and a stereo sound system. it's easy enough to see and pull out and change wires etc but do any of you think moving the router would make any difference? Or do you think it's simply my suppliers fault? I've tried Googling this answer and the closest I can find involves Kodi and I don't like Kodi so I just want IPTV, something simple that gives me UK channels hopefully in HD that we can watch in HD. I've never seen anyone say they had to move their router to a different place or talk about the Network signal strength in the Firestick settings. I have CAT 6 cables coming out the router and are going to different rooms so moving it anywhere is gonna involve redoing everything but I want to know if this would even make a difference. Is Very Good as high as it gets? I've seen Good then Very Good so is there another step up? I've also changed the buffer size. Setting it very low means the channels load up quicker but that only works for the channels that will load, some just refuse to load, some still take 5 seconds to appear and I've made the buffer size higher thinking that will help. It's not a big house and there's no heavy downloading going on while we are trying to watch channels.
Basically I don't know what I'm doing. I've changed my wifi channel so that it's not interfering with anything else. I don't know if all the focus is on the sports channels only and that's why there's never an issue with them. I'm in the UK so I want something similar to Sky and have Universal, Fox, Sky Atlantic, Sky One, Dave, W, Drama, all the CBS channels, all the movie channels. The sports are the main priority but having the other channels is important too. I just want to know if anyone else had this issue and I can't see anything online where anyone solved it or what they did.
After a while I got hooked up with someone doing their own thing and I used their version of Kodi and their plugins and it was fine but there was a lot of buffering issues as usual, stuff not loading and it was only by chance I noticed this thing called IPTV. I mentioned this to them and that I wanted to try it, I got the app, gave them the code and they activated it and it was a lot better. I'll never forget them telling me that if this didn't work it might be time to reset the Firestick because most of the people they dealt with had Firesticks and they weren't getting the kind of problems I was. They had EPGs and I could never get any EPG to load up correctly so I blamed myself.
The problem is that while it is a lot better I still get buffering issues, some channels load up right away and others take a while to load or not load at all. The Sky Sports channels seem to work great, there are HD and FHD and even the FHD versions work great a lot of the time. Netflix streams in 1080p no problem, never a connection issue there but some of these IPTV channels either stop or the little circle appears and then it replays what you watched 10 seconds prior.
I have fibre broadband, obviously the Firestick needs wifi. My signal is Very Good, a few times I've noticed it say Good then a few seconds later it goes back to Very Good. The TV is at one end of the living room, because of the way I have things wired in other rooms, the router is at the other side but it's in the same room as the main TV which is where we use the Firestick. The router is on the floor and it's inbetween 2 Ikea Kallax shelving units which holds records and DVDs and blu rays and a stereo sound system. it's easy enough to see and pull out and change wires etc but do any of you think moving the router would make any difference? Or do you think it's simply my suppliers fault? I've tried Googling this answer and the closest I can find involves Kodi and I don't like Kodi so I just want IPTV, something simple that gives me UK channels hopefully in HD that we can watch in HD. I've never seen anyone say they had to move their router to a different place or talk about the Network signal strength in the Firestick settings. I have CAT 6 cables coming out the router and are going to different rooms so moving it anywhere is gonna involve redoing everything but I want to know if this would even make a difference. Is Very Good as high as it gets? I've seen Good then Very Good so is there another step up? I've also changed the buffer size. Setting it very low means the channels load up quicker but that only works for the channels that will load, some just refuse to load, some still take 5 seconds to appear and I've made the buffer size higher thinking that will help. It's not a big house and there's no heavy downloading going on while we are trying to watch channels.
Basically I don't know what I'm doing. I've changed my wifi channel so that it's not interfering with anything else. I don't know if all the focus is on the sports channels only and that's why there's never an issue with them. I'm in the UK so I want something similar to Sky and have Universal, Fox, Sky Atlantic, Sky One, Dave, W, Drama, all the CBS channels, all the movie channels. The sports are the main priority but having the other channels is important too. I just want to know if anyone else had this issue and I can't see anything online where anyone solved it or what they did.
