Helix, a Fab Refugee Review

by PowerfulAccount5

I am posting using a burner, throwaway account because IPTV subreddit are compromised. I do not want my real account to be banned.

I been with Fab for a bit over a year and using mostly quarterly subscriptions. For the most part it worked well. I really enjoyed the Sports Corner accounts since It was cheaper than Smooth Streams. Those channels were the best part of FAB and was the reason I continued with their service.

Other channels were really a mixed inconsistent bag. Sometimes it was great and somethimes it was just shit. Usually I get response with Jolly saying "it's your end" or something ridicuious that a child would say. He was at times an absolute jerk to people in forums and discord. The other admins were great. I just deal with it since I was never the target of his rants.

Anyhow, I can't renew anymore so that's in the past. ... So what are the options of ex fabers are really vaders, external, epic, helix

External out of stock all the time. Vaders mixed bag. Epic really too expense. So I took a dive on Helix over the weekend. The price was right for right for US/CA Helix for roughly 5.20 USD

Saturday - Thought I found a replacement. It was good. The US VIP with the 50 channels was absolutely amazing. Really clear no buffers and the UFC TJ / Cody worked well. Like a nice Sling TV package

Sunday (AM) - Helix - What a pile of garbage. Buffering on the exact same channels. WTF Helix.

I ticketed Helix and they said apologized and stated they had an XC bug which created a buffering issue and to try again

Sunday (PM) Backup to normal and works amazing... The VIP channels are amazing.

I also took out a trial as well to see what the other channels were and for the most part it has most of the channels Fab has but the organization was bit wonky. Streams were kinda all over the place for the international package. It has triple xxx that Fab never carried.

What is good about.. I am saving quite a bit of money comparied to FAB. It has what I need. Bob Helix seems to be a nice dude. I will provide an update once I get a few more days underneath this. but it is looking like Helix might work for some of you.

ChairmanMaoLeDong

Not sure what happened but Sunday Helix was fucked for me too, perhaps it was the load with Man City vs Chelsea

alwills

Glad to hear it wasn't just me who had a less than perfect stream on Sunday. Saturday was terrible as well, none of the 3pm kick off's worked for me all weekend or the Ipswich v Blackburn match which I wanted to watch. I found a stream on Bein 11, but that changed to German football at half time. Very disappointing weekend for me, only got IPTV for sports.

throwawayIPTV

yeah i can confirm that helix shat the bed on Sunday for sure, pretty much all UK sports channels were either dead or buffering for me. As I understand it they are a pretty new service (3 months old?) so I would imagine this weekend with the prem back was their first real test (traffic wise). It seems rock solid today, but lets hope it gets better next weekend when the footy is back on. So a word of caution for people considering helix, perhaps take a trial on a matchday to be sure.

mr_bbi

Fab refugee too.

Purchased a 48hr trial and 24hrs later so far so good. Good channel selection with multiple copies of each channel as backups. Very surprised at the quick channel zapping times in perfect player, 1/2 again as fast as Fab was. Living at the bottom of the world buffering & slow-ish channel zap times for iptv has at times been unreliable but so far Helix has stood the test.

Will report back in 24hrs once trial is complete but looking good so far.

kikinjohr

Helix if soon dont start adding new servers and filter out unstable channel sources will become new vaders joke

clen86

Helix is decent for the price, Vader is too expensive and not consistent enough. Epic wins for me. I was with D9TV for months until they changed server. I tried out about 5 or 6 different providers over the past 2 months. Epic wins.

fern2k

I like the option of sd channels they really dont look bad and it will save me on data fucking cox lol

PENGUINSflyGOOD

for 6 dollars a month it's a great service and bob has always been friendly when I open a ticket.

Donchema113

I’ve had Helix for going on 3 months now and it’s been a great experience for the most part.

I watched all of UFC 227 buffer free. I’d put it a notch below Epicstream but a bit higher than Vader.

Just my personal experience.

fooali

i think this weekend is a huge make or break for Helix. hearing many problems last weekend. one thing i've learned about iptv is that first impressions last and its tough to comeback from

Wokmeister

Helix are on my list of possibles along with Eternal (I don't know who "External" are). Epic seems to have issue with streams freezing for me and it has not been possible to solve it (I use enigma2 and have tried HLS but it didnt help) , plus their channel organisation is a compete joke, which baffles me since its not exactly hard to do, and only ever needs to be done ONCE!! Jesus christ just go and copy the organisation of channels that Ace/Flawless/Fab used, thats how you organise them properly. It's mostly the freezing though, sometimes ok for a few hours, sometimes freezing every 5 minutes and it drives me mad (hence I tried fab which had the odd freeze but nothing like epic). Also had quite a few audio issues with epic. Never had any freezing at all with Ace, or any issues with out of sync audio :( Epic also have virtually no catchup, vs Fab which had it on virtually every UK HD channel. Fab for me much better than epic. epic does have good picture quality but what use is that when it keeps freezing or when audio is out of sync (why that keeps happening I have no idea but you would think it should not be happening these days).

Not sure about Helix, clearly capacity is an issue and set to get a lot worse with an influx of Fab people moving over so I have not tried it yet so not sure how much catchup there is or what reliability is like in terms of freezing and audio issues.

Guvnor1975

I think you guys will be my next sub for £4 can't really go wrong.

powsm

Not working right now,tried Kodi, Android app, web browser, none working.......

JaffeJoe

I had a trial and the UFC ppl this past weekend was flawless. The reg channels seemed to work good too. Sunday hit and it was buffer city...worse than my 'Twisted' sub I had just got as I wanted to try to find a vaders replacement. Might be going back to vaders unless I hear Helix is stable.

Raolah

i'm with fab and I only found out two days ago that the forum I used to find to helpful no longer exists. I have also been having lots of buffering. Does anyone know what is happening?

confused9

Is there a trial fee and APK for android?

kikinjohr

Is PSVue source sticking ? It says 48h test in category name, nice addition :)

nemecky

FAB is shutting down, so I am looking for a replacement provider. Really haven't done any research on these providers in probably a year, so not sure what's out there. Was using SETtv for a few months as well, but ended up going back to FAB. I really liked the 24/7 and VOD channels they had, anything similar to those on Helix?

notrox

How's the EPG?