premier league thread

Dan_2015 · 01-03-2015, 17:57

hi

Whats what best vpn/dns service for Bein sports for people in the uk ?

Branners · 05-03-2015, 15:13

Quote:

Anyone got plans for next season?

I was thinking about going down the subscription route such as Streamtvbox.

Anyone currently using them?

jcm193 · 05-03-2015, 18:23

Don`t waste your breath if you want to use it a peak times also i dont think digitalspy will like you promoting the site, your best options are premierleaguepass, nbc sports extra or beinsports

Quote:

Originally Posted by Branners

I was thinking about going down the subscription route such as Streamtvbox.

Anyone currently using them?

Branners · 05-03-2015, 20:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcm193

Don`t waste your breath if you want to use it a peak times also i dont think digitalspy will like you promoting the site, your best options are premierleaguepass, nbc sports extra or beinsports

I cant edit my previous post! I didnt realise there is peak time issues so that wont be a runner!

Premierleaguepass was hit and miss for many people, some had their accounts cancelled very early in the season!

Beinsport isnt worth wasting time with!

I will have a look at nbc sport, wasnt great on Kodi the last time I tried it! It kept on buffering every 30 or so seconds!

Graeme89 · 05-03-2015, 21:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by hard_to_beat

Well, I hardly meant what boots are you buying

Same plans as this year... Premier league pass no need to change every year

St@mmie · 06-03-2015, 17:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by hard_to_beat

Anyone got plans for next season?

Likewise to the above post,
the same as this year, Sky and BT for the televised games I want to see and the excellent NBC Sports Live Extra for the games The Premier League say I can't watch

Coljj · 06-03-2015, 21:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Graeme89

Same plans as this year... Premier league pass no need to change every year

Keeping a keen eye on the next standard of encoding in h.265/HEVC. Hopefully Neulion & PLP are on it as soon as something like Apple TV 4 is released and we should get a nice bump in quality.

jcm193 · 07-03-2015, 16:14

Ok ive been doing some testing of the three services i have beinsports,startsports and premierleaguepass now ive had nothing but problems with inconsistent streams on all three ive tried using many different dns providers and ive had the same problem with all of them.

After a chat with technical support from one of the dns prviders he said that i may be being throttled on my virgin connection and i should try using a vpn and registering my dns to that vpn and not my home connection.

I done this and my connection/streaming issues now seem to of gone im watching all three services on multiple devices and there perfect, iam using a decent vpn with plenty of bandwidth the dns provider does the geblocking and the vpn gets around the throttling and so far its worked with all of the dns providers ive tried.

Just to note virgin seem to be throttling sports streams only netflix etc are unaffected i would not be suprised that this is the case for other ips`s

Graeme89 · 07-03-2015, 19:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcm193

Ok ive been doing some testing of the three services i have beinsports,startsports and premierleaguepass now ive had nothing but problems with inconsistent streams on all three ive tried using many different dns providers and ive had the same problem with all of them.

After a chat with technical support from one of the dns prviders he said that i may be being throttled on my virgin connection and i should try using a vpn and registering my dns to that vpn and not my home connection.

I done this and my connection/streaming issues now seem to of gone im watching all three services on multiple devices and there perfect, iam using a decent vpn with plenty of bandwidth the dns provider does the geblocking and the vpn gets around the throttling and so far its worked with all of the dns providers ive tried.

Just to note virgin seem to be throttling sports streams only netflix etc are unaffected i would not be suprised that this is the case for other ips`s

In reguards to using premier league pass you only need a vpn to get the stream going once going you can turn if off and it streams perfectly

jcm193 · 07-03-2015, 19:59

Yes i know but my isp either throttles the connection/stream or it has piss poor routing this gets around it i tested it today it was rock solid the quality did not drop below 4500 kbps this is 1 st time ever it maybe useful info if other people are seeing similar issues.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Graeme89

In reguards to using premier league pass you only need a vpn to get the stream going once going you can turn if off and it streams perfectly

gother · 07-03-2015, 21:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcm193

Ok ive been doing some testing of the three services i have beinsports,startsports and premierleaguepass now ive had nothing but problems with inconsistent streams on all three ive tried using many different dns providers and ive had the same problem with all of them.

After a chat with technical support from one of the dns prviders he said that i may be being throttled on my virgin connection and i should try using a vpn and registering my dns to that vpn and not my home connection.

I done this and my connection/streaming issues now seem to of gone im watching all three services on multiple devices and there perfect, iam using a decent vpn with plenty of bandwidth the dns provider does the geblocking and the vpn gets around the throttling and so far its worked with all of the dns providers ive tried.

Just to note virgin seem to be throttling sports streams only netflix etc are unaffected i would not be suprised that this is the case for other ips`s

Might not be related but when i was on vm i had nothing but hassle with getting online live football, constantly kept buffering so much for their 100mb eh?
Now i've moved to another provider only getting 78mbs and wollah never had any issues at all with live football streams, constant smooth playback every time.

jcm193 · 07-03-2015, 22:01

You have hit the nail on head there on this occasion its a virgin issue iam on virgin and i would drop them in a heartbeat if i could get inifinity sadly i dont have that option of having t use a vpn to get around there piss poor service ,virgin are so bad ive only ever found 1 vpn that works with them as it should which in itself is a joke.

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Originally Posted by gother

Might not be related but when i was on vm i had nothing but hassle with getting online live football, constantly kept buffering so much for their 100mb eh?
Now i've moved to another provider only getting 78mbs and wollah never had any issues at all with live football streams, constant smooth playback every time.

gother · 07-03-2015, 23:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcm193

You have hit the nail on head there on this occasion its a virgin issue iam on virgin and i would drop them in a heartbeat if i could get inifinity sadly i dont have that option of having t use a vpn to get around there piss poor service ,virgin are so bad ive only ever found 1 vpn that works with them as it should which in itself is a joke.

I had exact same issues hardly any vpn would work with vm cactus vpn worked it might be worth trying that they are fairly cheap.
I'm with plusnet now highly recommend them if/when fibre hits your area.

BMox · 08-03-2015, 17:14

I'm on a 152mb connection with Virgin and I haven't encountered that much buffering or lag to make it an issue.

jcm193 · 08-03-2015, 20:49

Must be a regional thing then i get full speed 150 meg most of the time but streams are shocking most of the time im no engineer but something is clearly wrong

Quote:

Originally Posted by BMox

I'm on a 152mb connection with Virgin and I haven't encountered that much buffering or lag to make it an issue.

akki007 · 09-03-2015, 07:52

This is why I refuse to use virgin media.

http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-ma...hresholds.html

jcm193 · 09-03-2015, 11:38

There are no download limits anymore the upload limits don`t affect me but to be honest i would rather have overall reliability than headline speeds sadly its either virgin or slow adsl here

Quote:

Originally Posted by akki007

This is why I refuse to use virgin media.

http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-ma...hresholds.html

Trainer99 · 16-03-2015, 16:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcm193

Must be a regional thing then i get full speed 150 meg most of the time but streams are shocking most of the time im no engineer but something is clearly wrong

No real problems with VM previously, but buffering every few seconds yesterday.

jcm193 · 16-03-2015, 20:56

Virgin are an fuc*ing joke i think they must connect to the world wide web with string they really need to get there act together.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trainer99

No real problems with VM previously, but buffering every few seconds yesterday.

Trainer99 · 17-03-2015, 08:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcm193

Virgin are an fuc*ing joke i think they must connect to the world wide web with string they really need to get there act together.

Very poor again last night. Not sure where the problem lays (the DNS or VM).

But then sometime after 11pm everything was OK. I tested with streams on two different devices - and all was perfect.

homer2012 · 17-03-2015, 10:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trainer99

Very poor again last night. Not sure where the problem lays (the DNS or VM).

But then sometime after 11pm everything was OK. I tested with streams on two different devices - and all was perfect.

PLP during the whole of the second half for Liverpool game was unwatchable for me, Constant stopping and restarting, yet 1st half was perfect as normal.

gother · 17-03-2015, 12:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trainer99

Very poor again last night. Not sure where the problem lays (the DNS or VM).

But then sometime after 11pm everything was OK. I tested with streams on two different devices - and all was perfect.

Don't be surprised if it turns out that VM have over subscribed in your area they are well known for this.

jcm193 · 17-03-2015, 12:49

I thought that initially but im not in an oversubscribed area iam lucky to get near enough 160 mbps day and night i think its a peering/routing issue with anything that originates in the USA

Quote:

Originally Posted by gother

Don't be surprised if it turns out that VM have over subscribed in your area they are well known for this.

gother · 17-03-2015, 20:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcm193

I thought that initially but im not in an oversubscribed area iam lucky to get near enough 160 mbps day and night i think its a peering/routing issue with anything that originates in the USA

Could be mate but i've had no issues at all since i moved from VM nbcsports runs flawlessly for me.

Ian_Cass · 18-03-2015, 16:50

I have been using Plusnet recently & I have to say I am quite impressed, maybe I have just be lucky! I have had VM & BT in the past & my current isp has been better.

05-03-2015, 15:13	#6077
Branners Forum Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 16	Quote: Originally Posted by hard_to_beat Anyone got plans for next season? I was thinking about going down the subscription route such as Streamtvbox. Anyone currently using them?

01-03-2015, 17:57	#6076
Dan_2015 Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 18	hi Whats what best vpn/dns service for Bein sports for people in the uk ?

05-03-2015, 18:23	#6078
jcm193 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,086	Don`t waste your breath if you want to use it a peak times also i dont think digitalspy will like you promoting the site, your best options are premierleaguepass, nbc sports extra or beinsports Quote: Originally Posted by Branners I was thinking about going down the subscription route such as Streamtvbox. Anyone currently using them?

05-03-2015, 20:02	#6079
Branners Forum Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 16	Quote: Originally Posted by jcm193 Don`t waste your breath if you want to use it a peak times also i dont think digitalspy will like you promoting the site, your best options are premierleaguepass, nbc sports extra or beinsports I cant edit my previous post! I didnt realise there is peak time issues so that wont be a runner! Premierleaguepass was hit and miss for many people, some had their accounts cancelled very early in the season! Beinsport isnt worth wasting time with! I will have a look at nbc sport, wasnt great on Kodi the last time I tried it! It kept on buffering every 30 or so seconds!

05-03-2015, 21:22	#6080
Graeme89 Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Glasgow Posts: 175	Quote: Originally Posted by hard_to_beat Well, I hardly meant what boots are you buying Same plans as this year... Premier league pass no need to change every year

06-03-2015, 17:21	#6081
St@mmie Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 655	Quote: Originally Posted by hard_to_beat Anyone got plans for next season? Likewise to the above post, the same as this year, Sky and BT for the televised games I want to see and the excellent NBC Sports Live Extra for the games The Premier League say I can't watch

06-03-2015, 21:22	#6082
Coljj Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Manchester Posts: 3,118	Quote: Originally Posted by Graeme89 Same plans as this year... Premier league pass no need to change every year Keeping a keen eye on the next standard of encoding in h.265/HEVC. Hopefully Neulion & PLP are on it as soon as something like Apple TV 4 is released and we should get a nice bump in quality.

07-03-2015, 16:14	#6083
jcm193 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,086	Ok ive been doing some testing of the three services i have beinsports,startsports and premierleaguepass now ive had nothing but problems with inconsistent streams on all three ive tried using many different dns providers and ive had the same problem with all of them. After a chat with technical support from one of the dns prviders he said that i may be being throttled on my virgin connection and i should try using a vpn and registering my dns to that vpn and not my home connection. I done this and my connection/streaming issues now seem to of gone im watching all three services on multiple devices and there perfect, iam using a decent vpn with plenty of bandwidth the dns provider does the geblocking and the vpn gets around the throttling and so far its worked with all of the dns providers ive tried. Just to note virgin seem to be throttling sports streams only netflix etc are unaffected i would not be suprised that this is the case for other ips`s

07-03-2015, 19:45	#6084
Graeme89 Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Glasgow Posts: 175	Quote: Originally Posted by jcm193 Ok ive been doing some testing of the three services i have beinsports,startsports and premierleaguepass now ive had nothing but problems with inconsistent streams on all three ive tried using many different dns providers and ive had the same problem with all of them. After a chat with technical support from one of the dns prviders he said that i may be being throttled on my virgin connection and i should try using a vpn and registering my dns to that vpn and not my home connection. I done this and my connection/streaming issues now seem to of gone im watching all three services on multiple devices and there perfect, iam using a decent vpn with plenty of bandwidth the dns provider does the geblocking and the vpn gets around the throttling and so far its worked with all of the dns providers ive tried. Just to note virgin seem to be throttling sports streams only netflix etc are unaffected i would not be suprised that this is the case for other ips`s In reguards to using premier league pass you only need a vpn to get the stream going once going you can turn if off and it streams perfectly

07-03-2015, 19:59	#6085
jcm193 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,086	Yes i know but my isp either throttles the connection/stream or it has piss poor routing this gets around it i tested it today it was rock solid the quality did not drop below 4500 kbps this is 1 st time ever it maybe useful info if other people are seeing similar issues. Quote: Originally Posted by Graeme89 In reguards to using premier league pass you only need a vpn to get the stream going once going you can turn if off and it streams perfectly

07-03-2015, 21:18	#6086
gother Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Venus and Mars Posts: 9,027	Quote: Originally Posted by jcm193 Ok ive been doing some testing of the three services i have beinsports,startsports and premierleaguepass now ive had nothing but problems with inconsistent streams on all three ive tried using many different dns providers and ive had the same problem with all of them. After a chat with technical support from one of the dns prviders he said that i may be being throttled on my virgin connection and i should try using a vpn and registering my dns to that vpn and not my home connection. I done this and my connection/streaming issues now seem to of gone im watching all three services on multiple devices and there perfect, iam using a decent vpn with plenty of bandwidth the dns provider does the geblocking and the vpn gets around the throttling and so far its worked with all of the dns providers ive tried. Just to note virgin seem to be throttling sports streams only netflix etc are unaffected i would not be suprised that this is the case for other ips`s Might not be related but when i was on vm i had nothing but hassle with getting online live football, constantly kept buffering so much for their 100mb eh? Now i've moved to another provider only getting 78mbs and wollah never had any issues at all with live football streams, constant smooth playback every time.

07-03-2015, 22:01	#6087
jcm193 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,086	You have hit the nail on head there on this occasion its a virgin issue iam on virgin and i would drop them in a heartbeat if i could get inifinity sadly i dont have that option of having t use a vpn to get around there piss poor service ,virgin are so bad ive only ever found 1 vpn that works with them as it should which in itself is a joke. Quote: Originally Posted by gother Might not be related but when i was on vm i had nothing but hassle with getting online live football, constantly kept buffering so much for their 100mb eh? Now i've moved to another provider only getting 78mbs and wollah never had any issues at all with live football streams, constant smooth playback every time.

07-03-2015, 23:37	#6088
gother Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Venus and Mars Posts: 9,027	Quote: Originally Posted by jcm193 You have hit the nail on head there on this occasion its a virgin issue iam on virgin and i would drop them in a heartbeat if i could get inifinity sadly i dont have that option of having t use a vpn to get around there piss poor service ,virgin are so bad ive only ever found 1 vpn that works with them as it should which in itself is a joke. I had exact same issues hardly any vpn would work with vm cactus vpn worked it might be worth trying that they are fairly cheap. I'm with plusnet now highly recommend them if/when fibre hits your area.

08-03-2015, 17:14	#6089
BMox Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 241	I'm on a 152mb connection with Virgin and I haven't encountered that much buffering or lag to make it an issue.

08-03-2015, 20:49	#6090
jcm193 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,086	Must be a regional thing then i get full speed 150 meg most of the time but streams are shocking most of the time im no engineer but something is clearly wrong Quote: Originally Posted by BMox I'm on a 152mb connection with Virgin and I haven't encountered that much buffering or lag to make it an issue.

09-03-2015, 07:52	#6091
akki007 Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 772	This is why I refuse to use virgin media. http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-ma...hresholds.html

09-03-2015, 11:38	#6092
jcm193 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,086	There are no download limits anymore the upload limits don`t affect me but to be honest i would rather have overall reliability than headline speeds sadly its either virgin or slow adsl here Quote: Originally Posted by akki007 This is why I refuse to use virgin media. http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-ma...hresholds.html

16-03-2015, 16:56	#6093
Trainer99 Forum Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 252	Quote: Originally Posted by jcm193 Must be a regional thing then i get full speed 150 meg most of the time but streams are shocking most of the time im no engineer but something is clearly wrong No real problems with VM previously, but buffering every few seconds yesterday.

16-03-2015, 20:56	#6094
jcm193 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,086	Virgin are an fuc*ing joke i think they must connect to the world wide web with string they really need to get there act together. Quote: Originally Posted by Trainer99 No real problems with VM previously, but buffering every few seconds yesterday.

17-03-2015, 08:51	#6095
Trainer99 Forum Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 252	Quote: Originally Posted by jcm193 Virgin are an fuc*ing joke i think they must connect to the world wide web with string they really need to get there act together. Very poor again last night. Not sure where the problem lays (the DNS or VM). But then sometime after 11pm everything was OK. I tested with streams on two different devices - and all was perfect.

17-03-2015, 10:28	#6096
homer2012 Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 5,071	Quote: Originally Posted by Trainer99 Very poor again last night. Not sure where the problem lays (the DNS or VM). But then sometime after 11pm everything was OK. I tested with streams on two different devices - and all was perfect. PLP during the whole of the second half for Liverpool game was unwatchable for me, Constant stopping and restarting, yet 1st half was perfect as normal.

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17-03-2015, 12:39	#6097
gother Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Venus and Mars Posts: 9,027	Quote: Originally Posted by Trainer99 Very poor again last night. Not sure where the problem lays (the DNS or VM). But then sometime after 11pm everything was OK. I tested with streams on two different devices - and all was perfect. Don't be surprised if it turns out that VM have over subscribed in your area they are well known for this.

17-03-2015, 12:49	#6098
jcm193 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,086	I thought that initially but im not in an oversubscribed area iam lucky to get near enough 160 mbps day and night i think its a peering/routing issue with anything that originates in the USA Quote: Originally Posted by gother Don't be surprised if it turns out that VM have over subscribed in your area they are well known for this.

17-03-2015, 20:56	#6099
gother Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Venus and Mars Posts: 9,027	Quote: Originally Posted by jcm193 I thought that initially but im not in an oversubscribed area iam lucky to get near enough 160 mbps day and night i think its a peering/routing issue with anything that originates in the USA Could be mate but i've had no issues at all since i moved from VM nbcsports runs flawlessly for me.

18-03-2015, 16:50	#6100
Ian_Cass Forum Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 8	I have been using Plusnet recently & I have to say I am quite impressed, maybe I have just be lucky! I have had VM & BT in the past & my current isp has been better.