Cloudflare issues have nothing to do with a storm as @MikeN has mentioned. Amberās service is in China so the storms arenāt causing these blocks/warnings. Cloudflare does not allow streaming via personal accounts and anyone doing so will get these blocks and warnings. ppl must use a business account and then have to modify their panels and enable certain features on their accounts. I am not privy to Cloudflareās policies but this has happened a number of times. Last time it was this bad was the fall last year. But Amber usually has it resolved in a day. Just what happens with such an inexpensive service that must have millions of users and a huge amount of traffic. You get what ya pay for.
4 Likes
Good way to avoid frequent URL problems is to avoid any service that does mac logins.Mac are easy to scan and the url gets posted everywhere . Stalker portal uses the mac logins .
1 Like
Aaaand after 48+ hours, Ebuy-IPTV is back online. Imagine my surprise. My brother-in-law returned to cable. Should I tell him his playlist works again? Nah, I donāt think so.
2 Likes
Amber sells it ācheapā - itās the same service sold at higher prices by other resellers.
All of the services sold by Amber are done by teams who maintain the service and I donāt think they are based in the far east - they do major service updates at Paris time ( Strong )
3 Likes
This is why Amberās service will always just be a cheap backup to my Main. works great and live Sports are incredible but the constant switching of URLās puts this into the Tier 2 backup service for me even though she is incredibly responsive. But for $32/year I aināt got much to complain about
5 Likes
I guess I should have said they are not in North America.
3 Likes
The new 8k url is a Russian url. These services arenāt going to use anything that would lead straight to them. most of these actual server locations show up as Hong Kong .
2 Likes
I had Amber for a long time before it really caught on and there were no frequent changes, I used the single original URL she gave and never had a problem. I think Amber/Strong has grown to the point where it is drawing extra attention either from enforcement action, straining infrastructure or causing enough traffic that Cloudfare is paying more attention.
I donāt know the cause but there has definitely been a trend since the big outage a while back. Hopefully things stabilize.
3 Likes
I have no idea how many subs are here at The Troypoint Insider but I would guess that Amberās business has been overun by the members here alone
4 Likes
Not only TP but Iām sure many have recommended the service to friends and family etc.
I hope the service doesnāt get loved to death.
6 Likes
I was without my service for two days. I got a hold of Amber (5:52 a.m. her time). She responded within five minutes. Unbelievable. I donāt know of anyone that has her patience. But she walked me through it and everything is great again. She has almost restored my faith in humanity!!!
4 Likes
Thats great and all, but if you would have just come here and read up on whats going on (and utilized the awesome info freely given and utilized it), it would have alleviated 1.8245 days of no TV. Or .2657 days depending on your typing speed. Weāre here to serve!
1 Like
Thank you Reece for your reply. Just for information and hopefully this wonāt take up too much time, I did come here and was advised to chat with Amber and was given two ways to accomplish that.
Youāre welcome. Thanks for understanding my lame effort at ālevityā. Hope youre streaming smooth and staying warm in your area - (brrrrrr)
3 Likes
Confession Time
Have a good laugh!
Yesterday, after experiencing the initial cloud fare error message and saw that others were experiencing the same thing I decided to take the time off and retype my old word document / cheat sheet of all the URLs, logins and add-ons.
Later in the day when it seemed like some of you were getting signals through the AB feed, I continue to have troubles. I read and read and read and decided to just call it a night and wait until the next day to see if things cleared up. .
So tonight, I decided to once again see if I couldnāt get TiviMate to hook up to the AB service hoping things, like possibly the weather may have cleared up. 
Still no luck.
Checked here on Troypoint and it seemed like everybody else was doing fine so reluctantly, I contacted AbbyBaby again.
After confirming with her that I was entering everything correctly, she asked me to send her a picture of my login off my TV screen.
She quickly replied and pointed out that my password was wrong!
Aw Crap, when I decided to clean up my cheat sheet with all of my add-ons, URLs and passwords and print out a nice new copy, l had transposed two of the numbers in my password.
I told Abby there is an old saying that goes: IF YOUāRE STUPID, ITāS OK TO SHOW IT ONCE IN A WHILE!
We both got a good laugh.
Hope you did too 
8 Likes
Hey @Smokeball glad you are back upā¦.you got almost everything right except itās not Abby itās Amberā¦..Just thought you would want to know for your āprinted cheat sheetā 
4 Likes
OK, curiosity finally caught up to me. Earlier I said a wonāt do business with China.
When I kept seeing the term āstrong8kā ,the 8k looked familiar. Soā¦.. i contact amberbaby and get a trial.
Its the same sub i purchased from Luxpro. Whichi did not renew.
as some here has said, itās a cheap backup. My main provider has a higher bit rate than strong. Very noticeable on live sports events.
1 Like
3 Likes
When Iām helping people with Tivimate playlist I always tell them to send a screenshot. 100% of the time its a typo. Glad you got it working.
That is why I use atvTools on my phone so I can copy and paste, I have a hard enough time typing on a computer, that onscreen keyboard is worse yet.
2 Likes