Original poster - you may wish to review info below. An €80 service may not give you a good standard of service. Would be curious to know what box you were offered.
TeeveeTV voted best in Europe - FAKE NEWS. Mind you in the TV business this type of nonsensical claim is normal. They are a generic white label shared service. They offer a quite small selection of channels compared to many other services.
As an IT professional of over 15 years, there is some absolutes in terms of performance that will make a difference. Also need to review internet providers - believe it or not, speed is not always as relevent as people think!
I spent a number of years on support testing these services and suspect I have tried and tested more services than most - it´s my job.
TV Services & Costs.Every IPTV service company has hosting costs. Why is it, that some companies offer what appears to be a similar package but at half the price of another?
In order to reduce costs, servers have more people on them and often exceed the maximum capacity, so if you put twice the people on the same type of server, you reduce costs by half, but also reduce the quality of the service under loading. This is why many cheaper services have buffering issues.
I´ve also found quite a few other differences, such as the level of On demand content, general support, catch up type services - it´s only when you drill down the service / channels & on demand and overall stability.
The problem is, it is easy to knock up a generic website, borrow a 3rd party service and make a number of claims, with no background, experience which make it perfect for many cowboys to offer - no legaiity, taxes, or TV background experience.
Internet providersWe´ve seen clear cases of by definition espionage´ - Internet providers deliberately destabilizing yout TV as they have their own TV service, which by causing issues with your preferred provider they hope will move you across to them - rare, but does happen.
Speed tests are useless - STABILITY is key, so using a speed test to establish anything other than if you have internet ´at the time´or for the 30 seconds the test runs - is about all it is good for.
ISP´s can or may throttle during peak periods to protect their own resources - which is why you could have 2 people with the same boxes and TV service behave differently. Throttling the TV connection does not show up on a speed test and only affects the connection the ISP is throttling.
More than often issues are a combination of things - from not the best hardware or apps being used, to cheap services which cut corners - there´s cheap and there´s too cheap and you simply cannot deliver a high-quality service at a bargain price without compromising performance.
A lot of companies offer old Mag boxes or generic Android boxes or worse still Amazon Firesticks ( underpowered) - as part of the overall service hardware selection is also important as will give you better stability and also a lot more features and simply easier / better to use - so do not expect €30 of Firestick to perform the same as a device costing €100 more.
Paul
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