Vaders - Yikes (US/Canada)

by sublimerasta

I rarely watch TV, but when I do it's only for sports. My friend and I decided we would share the cost of a 1 month vader's subscription, and for the first 2 days it worked without issue for both of us. I live in the states and he lives in Canada. I knew a prime time football game would be the true test, as i'm sure the servers are loaded with concurrent connections. The first game I watched on ABC, and it was unstable until the game was clearly over. My buddy in Canada was experiencing the same issue, and IPVanish nor Nord VPNs made any difference. I was hoping things would improve tonight with the ESPN game, but it was even worse, and we both realized this service isn't for us.

I used Perfect Player, Kodi, the Vader's APK, and the website. None of these resolved the buffering and choppy playback, and the issue was clearly with the server being overloaded. I truly believe Vader's has been oversold, and it simply cannot handle the amount of concurrent connections one would expect for major events.

I have a fiber connection with 500mbps download and 200mbps upload. I'm not sure what my buddy in Canada has, but I know it should easily handle streaming based on the games we play together. The on demand content works great, and during normal viewing it also works great. If you are expecting to enjoy a prime time sporting event though, then get ready for constant annoyance.

striker1211

I spent about 2 months exploring the world of IPTV. Even trying to watch HGTV on any of the providers was a constant annoyance.

Blue-Thunder

Sports and other high demand events are always a problem. The world cup brought every single provider to their knees, and the iptv sub was filled with every chav complaining about their service being shit because of it. It's almost as if people don't understand the sheer demand that these types of things put on their providers.

Every provider is going to over sell. The goal is to have as many paying customers as possible who don't use the service. Just like a gym membership. I mean could you imagine what would happen if every single person who had a gym membership showed up at the same time, on the same day? That is what happens with big sporting events.

Hoyer_Lift

Why are so many people talking about Vader? They are shit. Stay away.

blackboy211

Yeah I had the same issue. Then I realised I contacted my ISP And requested to have a static ip address. This is usually reserved for gaming plans. The buffering stopped. Also I noticed that my fire tv stick wifi was so crap it kept buffering so I bought the Ethernet accessory and this worked even better.

bhtalia1

I guess it varies, I have had Vader’s for about a year and it has been reliable. I often use a VPN because I suspect my ISP of throttling during peak use hours. I have found you have to have a backup service. I use Eternal tv which is only 8 dollars a month.

elgenes

Get Smoothstreams. Most stable service there is.