hungabunga
Newbie
Hi All
I stupidly bought a mxq box without doing much research but saying that apart from having a little bit more ram the box is not all that bad. I have an account with a geo unblocker for netflix which aslo came with a vpn so I set it up and got primewire and icefilms working. I have done a speedtest and the vpn connection is around 1mb/s so not great for streaming. I have had a look online and there isn't much information on what speed connection is recommended for good streaming. There seems to be many suggesting to use vpn from PIA but it is almost like paid advertising so not really sure.
The box works fine and once a stream is up and running it is fine but only if I don't rewind, pause or forward, the minute you try that it just goes back to the list of sources and then is hard to get it to continue from where it left off.
So I have a few questions
1) what vpn performance should I aim for and which vpn service is recommended (I currently have smartdnsproxy)
2) which country is best to connect to as US is some distance and a closer link might give better performance
3) If I access primewire via a website on my pc or iphone I can open streams fine without a vpn so why does the kodi with primewire channel need a vpn
4) have read about a add on that tweaks kodi to minimise buffering but is it better to get a box with more ram and therefore more space to cache content
5) The mxq box came preloaded, is it best to wipe all the apps (many I don't use) and just install kodi and the channels I want?
Thanks
Sully
I stupidly bought a mxq box without doing much research but saying that apart from having a little bit more ram the box is not all that bad. I have an account with a geo unblocker for netflix which aslo came with a vpn so I set it up and got primewire and icefilms working. I have done a speedtest and the vpn connection is around 1mb/s so not great for streaming. I have had a look online and there isn't much information on what speed connection is recommended for good streaming. There seems to be many suggesting to use vpn from PIA but it is almost like paid advertising so not really sure.
The box works fine and once a stream is up and running it is fine but only if I don't rewind, pause or forward, the minute you try that it just goes back to the list of sources and then is hard to get it to continue from where it left off.
So I have a few questions
1) what vpn performance should I aim for and which vpn service is recommended (I currently have smartdnsproxy)
2) which country is best to connect to as US is some distance and a closer link might give better performance
3) If I access primewire via a website on my pc or iphone I can open streams fine without a vpn so why does the kodi with primewire channel need a vpn
4) have read about a add on that tweaks kodi to minimise buffering but is it better to get a box with more ram and therefore more space to cache content
5) The mxq box came preloaded, is it best to wipe all the apps (many I don't use) and just install kodi and the channels I want?
Thanks
Sully