C&P from Reddit
Wow! I am so excited to have FINALLY found a resolution to this, I just had to post about it.
I’ve had a Shield (Tube) for almost 5 years, and paid for TiviMate around the same time. I’ve “trialed” at least 30 IPTV providers over the years. I bought a NordVPN subscription for my Shield. I’ve played with every “buffer size” setting, and almost every other settings in both TiviMate and Shield settings, yet nothing seemed to resolve the one primary recurring problem. I’ve tried VPNing to almost every country on earth. Plain, Obfuscated, Onion… nothing resolved the issue.
Regardless what I was trying to watch, every hour or so (usually more often) the program would buffer for EXACTLY 14 “sweeps” of the little blue “wait” circle, then after 14 sweeps, the program would come back, jumping 14 seconds into the future. (Often skipping some critical part of the show.) It drove me crazy for a couple years, but eventually I just wrote it off as “Well, this is what happens with IPTV…” My wife & I still cursed every time it happened, but we got used to it. Until yesterday…
I read someone’s post here suggesting “Turn off IPv6” in the Shield settings. That just happened to be one thing I’d never tried. Shield settings/Network & Internet/IPv6 to OFF.
I turned it off yesterday morning. Since then, I’ve been watching the same 24/7 channels that GUARANTEED some amount of the “14-second buffering” problem previously. Since then, I have not seen a single moment of buffering at all. Not even 1 second! It’s incredible! Now I can watch multiple shows, one after the other with no buffering at all! I turned off my VPN and every channel for every provider now works! It used to be at least 1 in 4 or 5 channels I selected were “dead”. Again, I just wrote it off as “well, I guess this is what IPTV is like.” Since turning off IPv6, I haven’t hit a channel that didn’t work.
To whoever posted that suggestion in another thread here… THANK YOU! You are a GOD!
