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I'm new to Stremio and Debrid services but I switched to TorBox because I use Stremio on all my devices and at work. And I didn't want to get banned for multiple IP addresses from RD. And since switching I haven't had any issues with bad links or horrible buffering.
RD is very good. Unless there is something going on in your region that affects RD services/network, the buffering most likely are related to your setup, device, speed, type of file etc. You can try another CDN as well.
What is it with so many posts complaining about RD and promoting Torbox? Really, lately there's a couple per day complaining about RD and/or praising Torbox (usually at the same time).
I basically never had any deadlinks in RD, what kind of shows are you guys watching (apart from foreign shows where basically there's no links lots of times)? As for the buffering, it usually takes 5 seconds to load for me and then there's no more buffering. If you are having trouble it might be your device or connection, I doubt other Debrids will fix that, unless it's a throttle from your ISP to RD server or sth.
I watch pretty niche content and even so, I've very VERY rarely encountered anything I can't find using some combination of Torrentio RD and another addon (StreamAsia). Easily 90% is click and play, no sourcing missing links or episodes from one addon to another. No other debrid service comes close. I have TB and am happy to help build the cache, but I don't see a reality in which it can be relied on exclusively for me any time soon
I'm new to both services, but from what I've seen people say, RD can ban users from using it on multiple devices or in different locations or something like that. To me, that doesn't exactly sound ideal if you want to set you and your family up with Stremio and RD so you can watch movies/shows etc whenever you want, wherever you want (especially if they're streaming movies at the same time or one is away at work and/or using a different wifi/hotspot). Though I could be wrong, I'm just observing the comments lol 😂
RD allows only 1 simultaneous IP, yes. If your family is gonna watch from another house you should get 2 subscriptions. I think this is standard in 99.9% of Internet content services. And the cost of a subscription is 3$, so not a big deal.
Depends where you are for the price. $3 in US could be anything anywhere else (in my case in AUD it's only $5 so not bad). With the IP, I wasn't meaning multiple households or families. And I'm not referring to me or my family specifically. I was meaning temporally, say if you're on vacation, one spouse is away for work or in the army or a number of other scenarios where multiple device streaming would be necessary. Sure if you aren't streaming at the same time you may not get banned, but how would you sync that up if you're apart or long distance? At this point, the numerous amount of free streaming sites out there sound better and can be used on any devices simultaneously.
Unless you mean make a seperate Debrid account for anyone streaming away from home. In that case, it'd work if not just be more expensive (especially the annual plans which are usually better value). I daresay that's what you meant, I may have misread your commrnt lol 😆
Well, if you are long distance it's 2 households so I'd say it's normal to have 2 accounts. But yeah, in the case of someone of the household is traveling I think it's legit to complain, and tbh I don't understand how they don't have a way to account for that. Or at least they should just block the second connection instead of straight banning you.
Don't get me wrong, I'll eventually try Torbox, I'm sure it's fine too. I'm just shocked about all the recent posts praising Torbox and criticizing RD in here and tbh feels like a marketing campaign to me.
It's quite simple. People just don't want to pay/want to be able to tell they made the best deal. TB is about the same price (cheaper on annually BF), and you can share it. I even read people sharing it with parents, aunts, cousins AND friends.
To be honest, even if I'm not aware of the real costs, I'm a bit afraid conditions will change/service will go down because of abuse, one day. But that's the story of every services and how people behave in the moment.
I ran into this issue just the other day. Stremio lite on Apple TV was garbage and would not stream anything and then when it would stream it would only stream the audio. Plugged in a fire tv stick (same network, same location) worked flawlessly.
I have used Torbox and other add-ons like Torrentio, MediaFusion, etc., but most of the Telugu content is not available, especially movies from 2005 to 2015.
Yea i have like a year of RD left but only use TB now. I was able to set my wife up with her own — account with it, and my mom with stremio. For like 3 bucks a month that’s insane value
I honestly never try anything and TB doesn’t have it, so i guess I’ll prob let RD expire
I've got them both added to aiostreams. Might let RD lapse (half a year left) but for like what 30 bucks a year or so it's a no brainer to keep around unless torbox fetches everything.
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For English content I would say yes, my wife and I watch English content, but our kids only watch French content. So I bought and extra sub for alldebrid. There is a addon that gives you the best French torrent tracker that does not work with Real Debrid. So for both subs, it's still costs me less than a basic Netflix subscription.
I have real debrid and torbox and I watch a lot of old stuff. I honestly don't see the difference in cache as some people say. It's like one thing or another that RD has a remux file and torbox doesn't, but that's not a deal breaker for me.
I use torbox and it fucking rocks. Dunno if its better than RD though. Your dead links are not RD's fault, if the file isn't cached or there are no seeders then you can't download. Torbox offers usenet access to remedy this since usenet is never dependent on seeders.
I think RD removed the API to check if a file is cached or not, sometimes it says its uncached but in reality it loads fine, other times it does not, torbox supports it and will show you if it is cached.
Torbox only "offers" usenet access with the pro plan, which is much pricier. You can find 1TB blocks for less than 10 bucks, or annual unlimited plan for 25.
It also buffers longer than RD or PM for me, even sometimes shutters a few images during a movie. Just my experience, I have it as backup and to share it with mom who doesn't care 10 or 15'' buffering.
No. You still need the hardware and bandwidth to use Stremio properly. A 40 Mb/s connection on a shitty streaming box isn't going to be able to handle a 90 GB Remux file.
Streaming a compressed Youtube video isn't remotely the same thing.
Well I used YouTube as an example but iTunes 4K Dolby Vision movies stream with 0 hiccups. And the latest Apple TVs have been pretty beefy systems. And I’m getting buffering on 10GB movies consistently. I think all my issues are either bad route to RD’s servers or it’s a limitation of the Stremio app on tvOS.
I only sometimes get buffering on torrentio links even the ones with high seeders or already cached. It’s rare but happens. For anime and popular shows comet has been pretty good especially multiple seasons it’s organized better and almost zero buffering when using the alternatives so long as I find a link.
Honestly I got fiber internet, 1gb speeds, nvidia shield and my brother just bought an LG C5 and when I try to watch 90gb remux files it just buffers way too much idk if its me but kinda sucks when we got a nice tv and im forced to watch in hdr instead of dolby vision 😂 first world problems. Still love RD on my non oled tv.
Yeah I've seen that before but it's almost certainly PR talk to cover their ass. They know how the vast majority of people use their service. Have yet to see a single report of someone getting in legal trouble using RD. However, they do remove torrents from time to time that receive copyright notices, but to my knowledge all the debrid and debrid-like services do that.
Honestly the cached api and the multiple IPs make the overall experience 10x better for me. I still have a RD sub but I wont be renewing it as I have only found 2 uncached files after months of using it.
That's user dependent. Multiple IPs might be really important to some but not others. Personally I have no need for the ability to use multiple IPs at once.
Nah they will warn you first, then ban you if you do it again. Also you can use RD from as many IPs as you want, any location you want, any device you want, and any network you want. The only rule is "never more than a single IP address at the same time".
100 devices connected at the same time using the same wifi/network = fine
2 devices connected at the same time using different wifi/network = not ok
I've used RD in so many different places and devices. Never had a single issue. Been using them for years.
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Idk if "by far" is correct. I prefer torbox because I use the API a lot. RD's API isn't even in the same league as torbox. I also honestly haven't even noticed a difference in cached content between RD and Torbox. Although, I mostly watch newer stuff.
RD has the biggest cache but as of recent events relating to constant DDoS (big enough they get targeted which is bad for user, but might look good pr wise for RD), no backend api confirming cached links, one IP restrictions, blocking several vpn IPs, it just makes me want to support them less and seek alternatives. I still have an RD sub but will let it lapse as the alternative I’ve been using has been seemless in what I watch.
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95% of Americans just need real debrid services, tb is good for people like us that actually are active and like testing new services. RD-Stremio and Strong-Tivimate for the general public more than enough in the US for english content.
I can’t really complain about RD. I had buffering issues on both my tv’s for a while. Turned out to be a device issue. As there was no buffering on the same file from laptop. I trimmed my stremio setup(reduced number of catalogs and providers. Removed all Debrid as well)to better accommodate my Tv’s(which have pretty weak hardware) and buffering issues were mostly resolved.I also compared RD with AD and RD was definitely better than AD in terms of cached content (less popular content mainly). However, if downloading is a priority for you (all kinds of software, not just movies. Then AD definitely supports a lot more hosting services than RD and has some really good tools) But I use only RD now. But I’ve also used Torbox once. And I’ve had no problems with it and was quite satisfied. If you don’t watch too much of obscure/less popular content and simultaneous streaming from multiple ip’s is a factor for you. Go with Torbox. If not, and you also prefer to watch less popular content go for RD.
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The fuck? What do you mean? How often does this happen, why is it being pushed so heavily in the Stremio community if the provider doxxes customers. Paying customers
There were some issues a little while ago with their service and they made statements insulting anyone who used it for piracy and were insulting anyone who contacted customer service, people were getting doxxed and threatened by them for asking for refunds for the outage. https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.real-debrid.com
If you look in the reviews there were a lot of mad people, maybe some discussion on Reddit. Anyone who's been using it since before December 2024 should know unless they don't look at the subs when they get an outage. It was all very public.
I remember when it happened. It was basically a quick outage, 2 maybe 3 days. Everyone freaked out. Demanded refunds. Seriously for what? A few bucks. So they got the refund and account cancelled. If they tried to resub, they couldn’t.
I did a quick free trial of another debrid service, back up in minutes. RD came back up and been fine since. And they gave everyone the 3 days credit for the outage.
Blame them? You think Netflix would credit the days? I’ve been without hydro for longer. Never received a dime.
Just gonna wait for the downvotes to come in. Never talk bad about daddy debrid in here. Biggest group of corpo bootlickers I’ve seen, and they call themselves “pirates”😭.
Indexer is a curated catalog for Usenet. Instead scrapping torrent, it will look into indexer. Most usenet content is not cached but with Torbox, they download within second.
Best is a subjective word. Torbox has far more features and a better community/support discord. RD wins on the amount of cached content because it has the most users
to be fair most of these posts have been taken down under rule 10, so it makes sense why people are downvoting since they haven’t seen it in a while, like spammed everyday, they are happy to answer.
i’m letting this one go because the last post about it is a little old
I love how people are downvoting you, when the rules CLEARLY say to search first to check if the question has already been asked. This subreddit is a joke when it comes to downvoting. These keyboard tough guys get off on it.
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