How do we know if Cloudflare is causing us problems? It’s always something!
You will get a notice that watching this video is not allowed on their basic service and the channel will not play, in fact nothing will play.
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Thank you both. I have no current issues but was wondering what a Cloudflare issue looked like.
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On a different note, I helped my neighbor (a senior and not tech savvy) get TREX from Amber and it’s been working great. He wanted to shut his Surfshark VPN off so I shut it all down. Then TREX stopped working. I asked Amber if TREX was down, No. We turned Surfshark back on and now TREX works back to normal.
It’s crazy that some services will not work with VPN ON, some won’t work with VPN OFF, or maybe CLEAN WEB needs toggled OFF but the VPN needs to be on. It just goes on and on.
Informed streaming is a full time job!
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Yes I experienced exactly the same thing with a different Chinese provider it would only work with my Proton VPN set to a specific location. It began with VPN active with Proton UK connection then it would became only on the one location that it would work. Once the month came to an end I dropped it and didn’t renew.
Some ISPs have a blacklist of offending IPs that are actively blocked. Usually the meat of that blacklist are torrent IPs but you’ll hear accounts of certain streaming server addresses being blocked due to isp use of deep packet inspection.
That’s why the VPN circumvents that.
No VPN here and my Strong working great. No Cloudflare error or buffering
Cloudflare issues have nothing to do with the VPN. It was a specific server and the URL which was easy to replace.
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It’s pretty cool that you don’t mess with a VPN. I’m a scaredy cat so mine’s on.
On a different note, I set up PRIVACY and used it for a CC streaming purchase yesterday and it worked great
On yet ANOTHER different note, I have a technical IPTV question. If an IPTV service owner sells his service directly to a customer, and then a re-seller for that same service sells to a customer, is it the same URL or does a re-seller have to use a different URL?
Further, will the service be hosted on the same server or potentially different servers?
The reason I ask it that I’ve been sampling several different services over the last 45 days and it looks like I got the exact same service from 2 different sellers.
Will the performance (buffering, up/down time etc.) be exactly the same from both the originator and the re-seller or might the originator have more dependability?
Does this question make sense? Thanks for listening and helping.
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Usually a reseller just gets a panel and his/her customers will have their own username and passwords and then those will be registered with the server through the panel slots/credits.
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The reseller can get their own url which is connected to the original server through the service.The service it’s self can have more than one url which can be a choice of which the reseller wants to use and some services have more than one server .
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Could be wrong about this, but I think one of the reasons why Amber’s service is so good is because it is a direct connection vs going through a reseller
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Amber is a reseller .All the services she offer are OTT vender service offered and owned by the same people .She sells panels but you can buy direct from the service and get a panel cheaper .A reseller with a panel can sell panels to sub resellers.
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So if the services are identical, they are on the same server?
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Yes and only a different url .Some require a reseller get their own Url if they are foolish enough to advertise and will ban them if they find the service’s own url on a webpage or facebook .Some resellers get their own url and change the name of the service but in the end it’s the same server and service .A lot of things can cause buffering and problems as a url obtained by a reseller can get blocked by an ISP and throttled while the orignal service url will work just fine and other reseller obtained can still work fine . Some of the problems with a url arise when they are out in the open and people using portal scanners are stealing 1,000’s of logins a day and the main reason services don’t want their url’s in the open .
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Wow. Thank you for that
From Troy’s post about LaLiga’s New Anti-Piracy Tactics
The strategy evolved after February when LaLiga began blocking Cloudflare IP addresses. This affected many innocent websites that happened to share the same infrastructure. After a summer pause, blocking resumed in August with modified tactics.
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Surfshark alt id worked for me so well that even my paypal payment thru alibaba was listed as the alt identity.