Sportsmania Kodi

[JohnMac]

I run my kodi through an Nvidia shield downstairs and a Fire Tv box upstairs and neither were affected, both giving great streams.

Hi Darthlaw
I use the NVIDIA Shield but have had lots of buffering so far this season, often to the point of it literally freezing. I am still on non-fibre broadband so assume it is my connection slowing down because of the IP and Sky throttling at peak football times that is causing the issues. It was virtually perfect before the issues towards the end of last season.

Have you been getting a buffer free stream?

[Barrowfordclaret]

If you on virgin media this might help
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Disable - WEBSAFE. To do this please follow these steps.
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2. Click on MY APPS
3. Click on OVERVIEW
4. Turn both VIRUS SAFE and CHILDSAFE off.

[JohnMac]

Don't know if that was for me I'm with Sky, I have already turned off the Broadband Shield, I assume that is the equivalent.

[aggi]

Hi Darthlaw
I use the NVIDIA Shield but have had lots of buffering so far this season, often to the point of it literally freezing. I am still on non-fibre broadband so assume it is my connection slowing down because of the IP and Sky throttling at peak football times that is causing the issues. It was virtually perfect before the issues towards the end of last season.

Have you been getting a buffer free stream?

I have a plenty fast enough connection and a VPN and still plenty of buffering on Sportsmania. It could be your connection but it could equally be Sportsmania. In the maintenance section on the add-on on Kodi there is a speedtest option to see what you're getting.

[gandhisflipflop]

If you on virgin media this might help
ISP RESTRICTIONS –
Virgin Media
Disable - WEBSAFE. To do this please follow these steps.
1. Register or sign in at virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia with your primary my virgin media username and password.
2. Click on MY APPS
3. Click on OVERVIEW
4. Turn both VIRUS SAFE and CHILDSAFE off.

If you're on virgin media the best option is to leave.

[Darthlaw]

Hi Darthlaw
I use the NVIDIA Shield but have had lots of buffering so far this season, often to the point of it literally freezing. I am still on non-fibre broadband so assume it is my connection slowing down because of the IP and Sky throttling at peak football times that is causing the issues. It was virtually perfect before the issues towards the end of last season.

Have you been getting a buffer free stream?

Hi John. I have Sky's fibre broadband and find it rare to have any buffering whilst on Ipvanish VPN set to Belgium, Holland or Denmark.

Only buffering I've had was during the second half of the Leeds game this week. Usually all my PL streams are fine.

[Walton]

If you on virgin media this might help
ISP RESTRICTIONS –
Virgin Media
Disable - WEBSAFE. To do this please follow these steps.
1. Register or sign in at virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia with your primary my virgin media username and password.
2. Click on MY APPS
3. Click on OVERVIEW
4. Turn both VIRUS SAFE and CHILDSAFE off.

[Clevedon Claret]

I think the buffering is down to sheer volume of traffic, my opinion only.
Been watching motogp this morning on SM and as always, I will experience 0 buffering. The same will apply tomorrow and Sunday until about 12.45pm (round about the time football early games kick off) when I start to get the odd 5 second buffer, but never any until (busy periods)
The same applies in the evening, never any buffering unless it's Champions league or PL midweek games.

I use a paid VPN and am using a 2yr old cheap tv box that is still running Jarvis 16.1, I am not experiencing anywhere near the buffering that some are describing ?

How many are still "suffering buffering" out of football hours I wonder?

[JohnMac]

Hi John. I have Sky's fibre broadband and find it rare to have any buffering whilst on Ipvanish VPN set to Belgium, Holland or Denmark.

Only buffering I've had was during the second half of the Leeds game this week. Usually all my PL streams are fine.

Cheers Darth
Just upgraded to Fibre Max yesterday so hopefully it will improve.

[Chuckypad]

I think the buffering is down to sheer volume of traffic, my opinion only.
Been watching motogp this morning on SM and as always, I will experience 0 buffering. The same will apply tomorrow and Sunday until about 12.45pm (round about the time football early games kick off) when I start to get the odd 5 second buffer, but never any until (busy periods)
The same applies in the evening, never any buffering unless it's Champions league or PL midweek games.

I use a paid VPN and am using a 2yr old cheap tv box that is still running Jarvis 16.1, I am not experiencing anywhere near the buffering that some are describing ?

How many are still "suffering buffering" out of football hours I wonder?

Exactly my experience. Not a single problem other than 'peak' times. I was away on holiday last week so didn't need a VPN in theory, but it was still s/hite from Saturday dinner time until Saturday evening, then fine for the Spanish games at night.

[upanatem]

I did exactly what you did upandatem.signed up for a month with ipvanish and still unable to watch the sky channels or premier league links on my kodi box.....am at a loss what to do now .
Ps....i have virgin media. Broadband

I finally managed to get a PL match on SM via my VPN – just tried it with the W Ham match. I logged out of everything, re-started, activated the VPN (selected Holland) and then opened up my Google browser. I went straight to SM and the streams page and clicked on the relevant stream in Match Day Section 1. Presto! All worked fine. Fingers crossed it works okay for the important match at 3:00pm.

[steve_f]

Its being shown on sports net and k+ which can be found in the sports hd section and bein 13. Which i cant find on sm.
Hope it works on the game zone link

[upanatem]

Thanks, Steve.

[steve_f]

Getting a count down to the game on the calander link at the moment

[Chuckypad]

Worked perfect for the first 4 mins...it's s/hite now

Got PureVPN which I pay for, and tried various locations but still no good. Any ideas?

Edit - Now using Denmark location and it's working...well it has done for the last 2 mins

[Devils_Advocate]

Im on IPVanish set to Netherlands and have had as perfect a HD stream as you could get

[wilks_bfc]

Im on IPVanish set to Netherlands and have had as perfect a HD stream as you could get

Unlucky. A buffering low quality stream may have made it more interesting to watch