V P N & Speed Tests

[topt]

1 hour ago, superal said:

Can anyone explain why it is that YouTube videos play in a high resolution and never buffer but every IPTV service that I have tried all buffer ?

Possibly YT have servers here in Thailand which would make a huge difference compared to IPTV services.

[topt]

2 hours ago, superal said:

T95 Android boxes .

How old are they and are you sure that they have a 1Gbs connection and not 100mbs which used to be the standard?

 

For example when I bought an HK1 RBox 3 years or so ago there were different types - some with 100 and some with 1000Mbps and people on forums were moaning because they had unknowingly bought the wrong one.

[superal]

3 hours ago, topt said:

How old are they and are you sure that they have a 1Gbs connection and not 100mbs which used to be the standard?

 

For example when I bought an HK1 RBox 3 years or so ago there were different types - some with 100 and some with 1000Mbps and people on forums were moaning because they had unknowingly bought the wrong one.

Well , I didn't know that . The boxes say ROM 4 GB    RAM 32 GB . Wizz told me they were capable of 1000 MBPS but the 3BB tech said they were low quality and old technology . Also Wizz say that the Amazon Fire Stick is a better bet to download their app .

[VR333]

7 hours ago, superal said:

They stated that my equipment was too old or of a low quality

They may have a point.

 

I get varying speeds when I test, depending on the device being used. I pay for 1000/500 or 1000/1000, can't remember which. On a four year old budget Samsung A12, I get 100/150. On my wife's year-old, higher-spec Oppo phone, it's 300/270. On my year old medium spec laptop, 480/400. The interesting test result was on a seven year old desktop. I swapped in a tp-link Archer TX50E Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 PCIe adapter, and the download test speed went from 400 to 950. 

[topt]

5 hours ago, superal said:

Well , I didn't know that . The boxes say ROM 4 GB    RAM 32 GB . Wizz told me they were capable of 1000 MBPS but the 3BB tech said they were low quality and old technology . Also Wizz say that the Amazon Fire Stick is a better bet to download their app .

Quick search on Brave summarised this  - only you can say exactly what model you have and what speed they advertised when you bought it -

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T95 Android Box Internet Speed

Based on the provided search results, here’s a summary of the LAN speed information related to the T95 Android TV Box:

• The T95 Android TV Box 10.0, 2GB RAM 16GB ROM, Allwinner H616 Quad-Core Cortex-A53 CPU, and Android Box 2.4G/5G Wi-Fi 100M LAN Ethernet Bluetooth Smart TV Box has a LAN speed of 100M (megabits per second).
• Another model, the T95 MAX Android TV Box 2.4G/5.8G Dual Band WiFi Ethernet LAN BT 4.1 6K HDR 10 Smart TV Box 2024, also has a LAN speed of 100M.

I appreciate not quite the specs you mention but if correct then not surprising you are getting the speeds you mention.

[topt]

4 hours ago, VR333 said:

The interesting test result was on a seven year old desktop. I swapped in a tp-link Archer TX50E Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 PCIe adapter, and the download test speed went from 400 to 950. 

No real surprise if you have clients that are AX compatible and you connect to AX (wiFi 6)  with lan - however very good if connected wirelessly.

[topt]

5 hours ago, superal said:

The boxes say ROM 4 GB    RAM 32 GB

This shows 100Mbps.......

https://www.amazon.com/T95-Android-Allwinner-Support-Ethernet/dp/B0BHZ9YGRM

 

Maybe just buy faster boxes.......

[arick]

On 11/28/2024 at 2:15 PM, superal said:

I am with 3BB fiber and pay for V.I.P. guaranteed 200 Mbps .Bedroom TV with Ethernet often buffers using Wizz IPTV . Do a Speed Test , OOkla / Fast and they both show about 50 - 70 Mbps .No VPN is used . Daytime in my office , on my laptop using wifi , I get about 215 Mbps . Turn on my VPN ( Surf Shark ) and it drops to 20 Mbps . My phone that is using the house router , shows 200 Mbps not using a VPN .

 Do you think that the 50 - 70 Mbps speed in my bedroom  is causing the tv buffering ? Strange thing is that when the TV programme comes back on , it picks up from where it left off , which suggests an IPTV blip ?

3BB techs said my devices were too old , Smart TV 5 years old and T95 Android box 1 year old . Techs connected their android box  and after 20 minutes of playing around achieved 1000 Mbps . Is this b/s ? BTW , the bedroom TV has sometimes hit 220 Mbps speed testing .

A 1000bps will drop down to 200 using wireless a d. Ot a cable .

[ChaiyaTH]

23 hours ago, superal said:

Can anyone explain why it is that YouTube videos play in a high resolution and never buffer but every IPTV service that I have tried all buffer ?

Is loaded from CDN (Content Delivery Network) which basically means YouTube has datacenters all over the world, making the data you load always being nearby. IPTV services are often illegal, they just shut one down in europe last week that made like 200 million a month (euro), with the point being they usually only have few servers on specific locations (hong kong).

Other than that streaming high quality simply requires a high stable connection, wifi is based on signal strength so is less stable. Things like netflix and youtube buffer this as soon you start, you can't do that with live sports either.

 

Some IPTV services do use the buffer technique with live sports, which is fine until the bar next to you has faster and you hear the booing and cheering.

[superal]

Recap . Me using a TV android box T95 and getting slow speeds and buffering especially watching Wizz TV .

 

I bit the bullet and bought the latest Amazon Fire Stick 4K Max , cat 6 e . A speed test went straight to 195 Mbps . So I settled in to watch the golf on Friday evening . Great quality; fhd picture from the live golf in South Africa for about 2 hours until 7 00 pm . Then it buffered so I checked the speed and it had dropped to 50 Mbps . Next day I went to the internet shop to complain and they put me up to 500 Mbps . My speed test showed 325 Mbps , very pleasing . Settled down to watch the Preston v Leeds on Wizz TV . All good for 30 minutes but then started buffering . I checked my speed and was still getting 180 Mbps .  I switched to other channels and they played without buffering . So I have come to the conclusion that you must have decent streaming equipment but that does not ensure buffer free viewing . I am thinking that when it comes to popular programmes that are being streamed by many viewers , the likes of Wizz TV servers cannot cope  and hence the buffering .