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Thank you John for your response, very gentlemanly of you. I am glad we can agree that we have had differing experiences.

It's a shame you had a poor experience, but the more I read on the forums it seems like everyone has disappointment in Spain one way or another. (Not that poor service via an anonymous third party such as an IPTV provider is limited to Spain of course!)

Same here all have been crap. Now using Nettv and cinema apps on firestick which are free.

Same here all have been crap. Now using Nettv and cinema apps on firestick which are free.

As someone employed in satellite & telecommunications for over 10 years & primary jobs has been researching & client support, I can state there is a huge amount of variation and confusion with regards to IPTV. 

The main issues are there is such a variation of services. Quality and stability do vary between suppliers, so a 'like for like' in terms of costs, is not always such a simple comparison (example below).

IPTV seller A has a server with recommended loading of maximum 1000 clients. They charge for example €20 per month per client but only have the maximum recommended load for the server - 1000 clients.

IPTV seller B has same server, maximum loading 1000 clients, but is only interested in profit, not performance, so has 2000 clients on the same server, gambling that too many of them won't be online at the same time. This seller could charge half the amount €10 per month, but the performance will not be as good or as stable as IPTV seller A. Payless, increase the probability of a more unstable service. Mostly....

'But I can get it free with Kodi' - well you can if you have the patience of a saint, good technical ability and are happy to spend as much time trying to find content as you are watching it? Apps disappearing or taken offline. Maybe for a technically minded home hobbyist, but for the average person who just wants to watch TV, it's trouble waiting to happen.  There's a reason why it's free. It's unmonitored, overloaded and just a pain. Kodi 5 years ago, is not the same as Kodi today. Poor. When unlimited people can hop on a stream, it will fall over.

Amazon Firestick - Is fine, AS AN AMAZON FIRESTICK. What many consumers do not realise, is the 'free content on a firestick', is not quite as it seems. Amazons own software/ecosystem is ditched to turn the Firestick back to it's the original format - an average Android stick, which puts you back to using Kodi (without Amazons own slick software), if you go the path of the free stream apps, you are back to where you started.

I know some will sing personal praise of one device or system or another, please consider my comments are backed up by listening to years of feedback from a few thousand expatriate customers & answering many of these types of questions for support. I also have all the services and equipment at my disposal for testing purposes.

One other factor which can affect people experiences is the internet itself - it has been known on the odd occasion, that a local ISP or two, has blocked or throttled an internet TV connection, either to limit the data they are using, or a type of deliberate act, as many promote their own TV services. If people do have issues and not sure if it's the streaming or the ISP there's a few pointers here - https://www.televisiontechnology.eu/instructional-guides-iptv  recommend skipping down to 'MOST COMMONLY REPORTED FAULTS OF STREAMING & IPTV SERVICES. SYMPTOMS & DIAGNOSIS'.

Paul

www.televisiontechnology.eu

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