Techy Stuff Help!

[Alan]

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with Tredders here. Hopefully there's a return policy on your purchase!

Personally have a Fire TV and love it. Have friends here with Rokus that swear by those, too. I'd consider both safe options.

 

[wanderer89]

Fire TV here and cannot fault it. Does everything I want it to.

 

[b3h]

I use a Mi Box which Tredders kindly linked me to, it's Android TV. Had it ages now and it's been absolutely perfect. In contrast I had a £35 loaded box off EBay before that and it was a piece of crap.



I came here to ask something else though. Has anyone done, or even heard of changing your DNS on each device you have to use Google servers? My mate has been told to do it by someone techy who he knows. Reckons it's boosted his download speeds and stopped some lag he was getting when a few devices were being used at once. I've never heard of it. Anyone done it??

 

[Tredman]

Forgot about the mi box, they're pretty good think there a newer S version out now too

For Google DNS just change your DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 if i remember correctly. It's only really useful if you are seeing delays loading webpages as opposed to downloading. DNS translate names such as www.google.com to numbers which are used to find the website. It's milliseconds usually and you won't notice any different, assuming you are already with a reputable internet provider.

 

[b3h]

Yeah can recommend Mi Box to anyone. Think it was about £60 so not even much more than a chep un.

Cheers. Been looking into it.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Fully loaded Android boxes are usually cheap ass chinese boxes (available via aliexpress for a tenner) loaded with crap and occasioanlly spyware.

Best return it and get an nvidia sheild or fire tv. If you want to do all the pirate stuff just google and do it yourself.

14Mb/s itself isn't much, the pirate schizzle is often peer to peer, so if your upload rate is crap that won't help either

So the plot thickened yesterday when I used the boxes browser to run an internet speed test. The box had 1.2mbps download speed and upload speeds of 0.8mbps.
Which was odd as I stood beside it with my phone and ran the same test and my phone got 33mbps download and 12mbps upload. So I figured it's either a WiFi blackspot or the wifi receiver in the box is shit.

So I went to Dixon's in town and bought a wifi range extender set, 2 plugs that make the electric sockets wifi receivers. Plugged one in beside the router, plugged the other in behind the android box and connected the box to it with Ethernet cable. That did the trick as I ran another speed test on the box and the speed was 34.6mbps with 13.2mbps upload.
Streaming works fine now, Mobdro works great now.
I do wonder if I'm doing something wrong with Kodi though, as we tried to watch a few movies and it just kept saying No Streams Available.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Depends which add ons you're using with Kodi, they die and resurface all the time.

Also consider a Real Debrid account (doesn't cost much), it will open up far more streams.

 

[wanderer89]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/ is your best bet. Also as DW pointed out, get RD. You won't look back.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Anybody recommend me a good IPTV service please.

 

[Tredman]

Anybody recommend me a good IPTV service please.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IPTVReviews

 

[wanderer89]

ENTVPremium. I've tried a few and they're the best, £10 a month.

 

[Paul]

Just a quick one, since the last Windows update, now every time I play a Youtube video the whole screen goes black apart from the bottom bar, If I move the mouse over the video window it comes back on for about 10 seconds then goes off again, if you pause the video it stops on but if you move your mouse off the video pane it goes black again.
This doesn't happen on any other video site ??

 

[Pablowolf]

Update Flash and your browser, check that JavaScript is still doing the business.

 

[Tredman]

Don't think YouTube uses flash anymore? Be worth checking windows update again and also checking a different browser (assuming you are on Windows 10 then try edge).

 

[Pablowolf]

Edge's only job is to download another browser.

 

[Tredman]

I'm a big edge fan

Well my fan is a big edge fan given that it doesn't need to run continuously as with Chrome.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

There's a Chrome extension I use called The Great Suspender, it saves memory by suspending tabs after a specific amount of inactivity. Ioften have 30+ Tabs open at once and it used to drain my laptops resources, crashing the browser etc. Fixed all of those issues with this extension.

 

[Pablowolf]

I'll look out for that extension.

 

[Boozad]

Firefox, best browser out there.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

I have finally got internet back up at my house, but i am fairly limited on monthly gigabite use. I can only purchase 10 gigabites per month.
So! can anyone give me a clue as to how many gigabites (approx) i would use watching a game, as opposed to listening to the radio commentary on the wolves site.
This video hotspot system from vodaphone offers no way for me to check the mega\gigabites i use on a daily basis.
Any hints would help, thanks guys.