Recommend a Kodi Box

[VladimirIlyich]

Mine was working fine at 6-7Mb, mate. It was only when I got more Firesticks for the house that I decided to upgrade the broadband. We're on about 35Mb now and there's no noticeable difference on Kodi. Usually any problems seem to come from the sites that are hosting the streams but there's so many add ons to choose from that it's easy to find a working stream.

I have a 50-70 mbps or kbps or whatever Virgin call it but live streams are still shit. I will deffo get a paid one in new season.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Just get a Firestick if they are still 20 quid, Paulie. They are fine for what you want.

 

If you have a hard drive already full of downloads you want to play then it might be worth spending a bit more.

 

My missus is now flapping that she won't be able to record things and her friend has an "open box" which is "100% like sky but not sky"

 

Is she chatting shit?

[Captain Turdseye]

You can get boxes from people such as Zgemma which are like Sky but they only cost between £50 and £100 per year. They're not legal, obviously, and I've got no experience of them myself. If I watched more telly I'd probably look into getting one but we only really watch it for a couple of hours a night in bed.

 

Anything you want to record will be up on Kodi/iPlayer, etc within a few hours anyway.

[cloggypop]

My missus is now flapping that she won't be able to record things and her friend has an "open box" which is "100% like sky but not sky"

 

Is she chatting shit?

It's a satellite receiver. Don't know much about it but I doubt it's much different to a Dreambox. You will need a satellite dish and pay someone for access. If you get a decent, cheap provider it can be well worth it for live TV. Probably a good French selection of channels for her as well.

 

What it won't be good at (unless you can also stick Kodi on it) is everything else that Kodi is good at. Stuff like pretty much any TV and film being available whenever you want it and full replays of the match if you've missed it.

[Paulie Dangerously]

It's a satellite receiver. Don't know much about it but I doubt it's much different to a Dreambox. You will need a satellite dish and pay someone for access. If you get a decent, cheap provider it can be well worth it for live TV. Probably a good French selection of channels for her as well.

 

What it won't be good at (unless you can also stick Kodi on it) is everything else that Kodi is good at. Stuff like pretty much any TV and film being available whenever you want it and full replays of the match if you've missed it.

 

 

Cheers mate.  I'm just going to get the stick and save myself £40 a month and she can just watch home and away and greys anatomy on loop for all eternity

[Tony Moanero]

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[Paulie Dangerously]

My fire stick is arriving today.  Mate in work is going to stick a few things on.  A whole new world 

[VladimirIlyich]

My fire stick is arriving today. Mate in work is going to stick a few things on. A whole new world

Its a great little device. Better for kodi too.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Ace this. Watching always sunny. I've fvd home and away for the missus.

 

Exodus seems to be the most reliable source so far. Working sound on my normal broadband too.

[Hades]

UK turks is working for footy streams (for now).

[Paulie Dangerously]

Last night it was perfect tonight everything is buffering to fuck. It's right next to my router. Might need to upgrade to a faster internet?

 

Just tested and I'm Downloading at over 9mb/s

[russ1979]

live streaming on Kodi went to shit for me last season so looking for a paid addon what is everybody using/recommend

[cloggypop]

Last night it was perfect tonight everything is buffering to fuck. It's right next to my router. Might need to upgrade to a faster internet?Just tested and I'm Downloading at over 9mb/s

That's fast enough. Restarting the router occasionally is usually a good idea.

 

It might be too slow for 1080p streams, not sure. More likely just the source.

 

[Sweeney287]

live streaming on Kodi went to shit for me last season so looking for a paid addon what is everybody using/recommend

Sign up to sportsmania, well worth it.

 

Https://sportsmania.eu/payments/signup

[VladimirIlyich]

Had the best stream ever on kodi today for our match against Barca. The channel was a spanish channel though so I suppose that was why. I will try sportsmania before the new season starts though.

[russ1979]

Sign up to sportsmania, well worth it.

 

Https://sportsmania.eu/payments/signup

Thanks m8 it's brilliant so far

[VladimirIlyich]

I cannot find sportsmania on my television kodi but have got it on my laptop version. When i have downloaded it to my telly one and i click on sportsmania there is no repo there. Any advice? Is it in another repo maybe?

[russ1979]

I cannot find sportsmania on my television kodi but have got it on my laptop version. When i have downloaded it to my telly one and i click on sportsmania there is no repo there. Any advice? Is it in another repo maybe?

http://sportsmania.eu/sites/view.php?pg=kodiinstallation

[VladimirIlyich]

Finally worked it out. I think it was simply something like a '/' symbol that fucked itnup.

[redheart]

OK Sportsmania is it worth it?

 

What is the quality like? Is there much buffering?

[Reckoner]

hello, im after advice,

whats a good one off ebay? my NOW tv Plex subscription just ran out. I'm after mainly the football but, series, and films too.

I'm not good with tech so don't mind paying a bit extra for an easy to use thing.

off topic, how do i change the quote after my posts on this site?

thanks

[GR10 LFC]

OK Sportsmania is it worth it?

 

What is the quality like? Is there much buffering?

I've been using it since last November and not had many problems. The odd buffer, but none that bad. The people who run it have a Games section where daily games are listed. These tend to be US broadcasts rather than Sky, I tend to use them more.

Everyone will have different setups and speed at home. They have a Facebook group for support, you see people posting there occasionally slagging off but I have never had issues to that extent.

My recommendation would be to do what I did - sign up for a month initially, about £13, and see if it suits you. I then signed up for 6 months for £26, and then renewed again in May.

[VladimirIlyich]

I tried sportsmania for the Leicester game yesterday on Standard definition from the Skysports feed and it was not great considering I get 50mb regularly off Virgin. Maybe I will try a US feed instead.

[VladimirIlyich]

Watched the Arsenal game using the foreign streams this time and it was much better. Bein was 2 minutes behing but went off(probably because of its HD quality) then switched to NBCSN link and that stayed on for the rest of the game and was only about 20 seconds behind. It seems foreign streams in the UK is the way to go.

[Baresi]

Does this sportsmania site show all of our games?  I'm tempted, but already have sky sports.  I don't have BT though and would like our saturday 3 O'Clock kick-offs too.