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If I do not use my VPN during Netflix playback I always get a minute or so while trying to ramp up to 1080p with multiple drops to crap 240p per hour. Its been like that on all my streaming devices, with some not ever even making it to 1080p, such as my WDTV Live. However, on the PC and on my Nexus Player it is near instant 1080p the moment the stream starts, so long my VPN is active. Its been like that on my ISP for years now (the only ISP in my area). I assume it is called ISP throttling, but no one admits my ISP does that, so I can only guess that is what is happening. I can only get decent connections from Netflix CDN's located in California as well. Go figure. On PIA (until Netflix started blocking their IP's) it was instant HD and maintained that HD 24/7 with never a hiccup. Now I am using NordVPN (because they have official dedicated Netflis VPN servers), and it seems to be similar, with near instant 1080p. I hope I get the same result from the Core, with the added bonus of 24hz.

So sick and tired of trying to get HD streaming on a 60/30 ISP account without needing to use tricky methods, special apps, etc, to do so. Wish I could go to sleep and not wake up until every connection on Earth is a minimum of 1 Gbps, up and down, lmao, would be nice. Maybe we wont be experiencing streaming issues then? That's what I get for buying 5 acres of land in a rural part of the world :/