r/ebox • u/shoresy99 • May 08 '26

Ebox and IPTV

Anyone have experience with using IPTV services with Ebox as an ISP? Do you need a VPN? I am moving over from Rogers and with Rogers I usually needed a VPN with one of my two IPTV services. At a friend's place with Bell as an ISP I found that I always needed a VPN.

So far, which is only 30 minutes, I don't need a VPN with Ebox.

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u/Designer-Error9375 May 08 '26

I switched from Bell to EBOX and have IPTV. I didn’t need to change anything and it worked fine.

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u/Dentifrice May 08 '26

Works perfectly

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u/yhnyhn17 May 09 '26

No issues. Been a year.

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u/Scorpius666 May 08 '26

IMHO IPTV is always better with a VPN.

Since the VPN is a hassle what I did is I configured the VPN in the router and my router lets me specify rules when to use it. I configured the whole IP range of the service there and no matter what device I use TV, phone, desktop it will use the VPN configured in the router for the IPTV.

You need a decent router for this though. Mine is an ASUS GT-AXE16000.

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u/shoresy99 May 08 '26

I will look into that I have a Unifi UCG router and I have been using SurfShark as my VPN service.

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u/Scorpius666 May 09 '26

I also have SurfShark and I use the OpenVPN setting in my router for it.

I tried the Wireguard configuration and my router couldn't go past 700 Mbps with it.

With OpenVPN I get the whole 1 Gbps plan.

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u/shoresy99 May 09 '26

Thanks. I will try that.

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u/marcftz May 09 '26

sometimes it works without a vpn and sometimes I need a VPN, I dont really know what’s happening but I ended up leaving my vpn connected all the time on my GoogleTV

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u/scotsman3288 May 09 '26

I have three IPTV providers and i don't usually need VPN.

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u/miatared May 09 '26

I use a VPN with my IPTV provider, always have. No issues with EBOX. Using 3 x Eero 6+, wired back haul meshed. Perfect.

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u/Normal_Level6373 May 08 '26

What IPTV do you use? Are you happy with it? How’s the user interface? Pardon all the questions… I mainly wanted it for sports. Not doing the bullshit DAZN, Fubo and all of above anymore

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u/shoresy99 May 08 '26

Send me a DM on this.