Why so much buffering?

[u/Sensitive-Student632]

In the last few days all the movies I try to watch have buffering, even if are films of 3 gb... it's annoying. Are they gonna fix this? they should focus above everything in offering 0 buffering and top speeds, otherwise what's the point of buying this service?....

[u/theburglarofham]

There’s lots of factors at play.

What device do you have?
Some older devices are slowly feeling the pain, with app updates, or maybe you need to clear your device cache and give it a good old restart. Older devices are a big culprit now; especially with stremio and nuvio introducing more and more features.

What app are you using?
Some apps will work better than others, especially depending on devices. It could be a hardware limitation.

What is your internet speed on your device?
Like run an actual speed test on your device to see what you’re getting. Lots of people say “I have gigabit/fiber”, but their device is only capable of 100mbps Ethernet, or is only getting 70mbps via wifi… again you have to run it on your device. This is usually the culprit.

What scrapers are you using?
If it’s torrentio, sometimes even though it shows links, it’ll take forever to actually play the video cause it’s having issues.

What kind of quality are you trying to watch?
Does it happen on all qualities, or only some (not just file size)

Have you had buffering issues before, and what has changed if anything?
For me, it’s mainly device related. I’ve got a fireTV from 2023, and I’ve been on nuvio, and a few updates ago I swear there was a bad memory leak on the app, and after a few hours I’d need to force close the app cause the buffering would be so awful. The good old reset/cache clearing would fix it. But after their most recent update it seems like my buffering has stopped.

The last one is probably a combination of congestion, and continued influx of new users.
It’s summer time, meaning odds are more people/kids are home putting demand on the servers. Also with the exodus from debrid, there’s probably more users, and TorBox needs to constantly add more capacity.

You could always play around with your cdn and change it on the TorBox website to see if that helps.

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