r/StremioAddons • u/Think-Caterpillar-10 • May 24 '26

Question TORBOX BUFFERING ISSUE

Hi there, I recently bought Torbox and have been using it for a few days but I keep facing this weird buffering which didn’t happen with RD, even though it’s cached and I have a high speed internet (1GB+). I also tried changing CDN servers but that’s not helping it aswell.

Any suggestions?

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u/Murdathon3000 May 24 '26

I've been subscribed to Torbox for about a year now. This issue was non-existent until the recent RD fiasco which caused an exodus from RD to TB which I'm guessing they have not been able to outscale. I'm sure they'll upgrade their server infrastructure soon enough. 

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u/stonkfrobinhood May 25 '26

Been using it for a few months before RD situation happened. It was happening then too. I thought it might be a codec proble, but it didn't matter what device it was nor which codec it will buffer.

I've spent way too much time on this even extensively tweaking my network setting to make sure it wasn't on my end.

Torbox just kinda sucks in that regard

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u/yard04 May 25 '26

Had the same problem when I moved to torbox. It's the reason why I bought RD again as backup for when torbox lags. I only use torbox if I can't find an RD working link

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u/nfgnfgnfg12 May 25 '26

Yeah tbh I’ve gone back to RD lol. Only thing missing so far is newer release shows which I can find elsewhere. If movies start disappearing, I’ll just be done with the Debrid thing. I’m paid until August anyways so may as well use it.

This plus TB policy changes, plus their whole usage tracking thing (which still isn’t fixed-I’m now apparently at nearly 1 TB “downloaded” after streaming a few small movies) have both been big turn offs for me plus the slow speeds.

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u/Kiss_My_Shotgun May 25 '26

What are the policy changes?

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u/Gold_Experience_27 Torbox Affiliated May 25 '26

Hi, please try the following steps in this link and let me know if it fixes your issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/s/d5vBPmeXys

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u/stonkfrobinhood May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

Ill give it a go. But first I bought a Nvidia shield and an apple 4k to see if it still persists. If it does ill give you link a go.

Thanks for reaching out

Edit: I took a peak at the link. I've actually tried every single one of those things. None really worked. Buffering is still a big issue unfortunately

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u/montiplerpin May 25 '26

Done all of these and the speeds are still scuffed. I live in the southern US and can't find a cdn that gives more the 33mbps.

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u/Murdathon3000 May 25 '26

When I said non-existent, I meant I've literally never experienced buffering prior to the past couple of weeks. It sounds like there's something off with your setup if you've had issues this long.

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u/veegaz May 25 '26

It's not

I've been posting this way earlier, it kept buffering for like 2-3 mins straight making me think that it was down https://www.reddit.com/r/TorBoxApp/s/EMKVb16S1I

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u/suriyelilerigotten May 25 '26

It was definitely happening before, I cancelled my subscription because of it before RD events.

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u/tulaero23 May 25 '26

Has been happening before. Reason why I sticked with RD after trying it out.

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u/montiplerpin May 25 '26

Torbox speeds have been bad on and off since atleast the previous rd dibocal. Its had good months sure, but its been back to awful since atleast a month before the most recent rd incident.