Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

Know-it-alls? I think this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black

Ah you're back with this again. The animal inside must be Chicken Little. Do you still think IPTV is similar to breaking the speed limit?

No I'm a sky customer with broadband with them, I have copied the channels onto other firesticks around my house, would that degrade my signals

And there are probably many more like you in the same boat.

When these clampdowns happen, a much more honest headline would be, "Thousands temporarily inconvenienced."

If you are using it on multiple devices at the same time your supplier is more than likely blocking you.

At a minimum, change your dns settings to something like Google dns or 1.1.1.1

tivimate is very good, €29.99 or so for a full license gives you 5 devices. never looked back.

I'm using smarters which is free, works grand

For people asking and wondering about apps and providers, message me about the former. But as for hardware, I use iriwns megastore online, go for the formuler boxes, they range from €100 to €150. They're a fantastic bit of kit with a custom rom that comes with mytvonline3 app, by far my favourite app for IPTV, it's solid, as is the hardware. If you're in the market for something and someone recommends a fire stick, just don't bother, there's a reason firesticks are basically free. Get proper hardware. I can point in the direction of a provider. No issues in ten years no matter what broadband I use and no, I don't need a VPN.

What's gas about this whole "illegal" debate is, if I've a sky problem, or a virgin problem or any issue at all it's a lot of fannying around on phone calls and at the end of the day they'll send an engineer out within two weeks who may or may not fix the problem. With "dodgy"box I just Whatsapp my provider directly, 24/7 service, get him to add a channel I need or an particular episode of season thats missing and boom, as I have the app opened it's up. If anything, legal providers can learn something from those dirty criminals providing affordable TV for people.

Had the lads over last weekend, noticed kerrang TV wasn't on the service, one Whatsapp, 5 minutes later the guy not only gave me kerrang but several other alt rock channels on my box.

$ky could learn a thing or two, drop your prices, let us speak to a human being, provide a fūcking better service.

I did anyway, mostly for greater control over things like DNS, VPN, spam filtering and so on. My home network is somewhat more elaborate than most though.

My experience over the years with ISP routers though is that they're generally crap - the eir F2000 and Sky's very very restricted router springing to mind. Had a NTL one years ago that lots of people had bother with in the office because it wouldn't let the company VPN through. No issues on my own one though.

Currently using an Asus XT8 with Sky 500 Fibre and it's a great piece of kit.

From someone who earns over 100K in IT your talking out your hole, From my home broadband on a 1GB connection I could probably give 100 customers IPTV if i wanted to. Its no different than the Amazon doorbell that you can access on your 4G or 5G mobile phone.

If I wanted to get a data center connection with 50 10GB links I could If i put my mind to it, data centers don't give a **** what your using it for, especially the dodgy ones!!!

So if it all.gets too complicated and technical for the end user then It's easier to sign up for pay TV.

If ease of use is such a big deal the number using dodgy IPTV would be much less than it is. Cost is much more likely to be the driving factor.

As for VPN costs ….. considering the huge 'savings' made using dodgy IPTV the cost of the VPN would not be a large factor. Most VPN providers these days make it simple to use their services.

As for locked routers … yes there are a few broadband providers who do this but the majority do not, and even some that do will provide sufficient info to set up your own.

But none of that explains by what means you believe that such IPTV streams will be "clamped down on".

I would genuinely like to hear what you think will happen or more to the point how it will happen.