08/01/2026
📺 Netflix, Prime TV, Youtube, Disney+ are working fine but your live channels keep buffering?
We’ve had a few questions lately about TV streaming buffering, freezing, or cutting out, so we wanted to explain what’s usually happening behind the scenes.
Most low-cost TV apps and boxes use unlicensed(aka pirated) channels. These channels are not licensed broadcasters like Netflix, Prime, or YouTube. Instead, they typically pull content from servers scattered around the world — often in far away countries where pirating TV channels isn't prosecuted — and those servers are:
* Shared by thousands of users at the same time
* Frequently overloaded during peak hours or major events
* Taken offline, throttled, or moved without notice
* Not maintained to any professional reliability standard
Because of this, buffering is very common, even if your internet connection is fast and stable. We have tested many of these less than legitimate streaming services on a dedicated 3 Gigabit (3000 mbps) fiber optic connection and still saw buffering due to the stream provider.
This is why a situation often looks like this:
✔️ Internet speed tests are good
✔️ Zoom, email, browsing, Netflix, YouTube all work perfectly
❌ One specific TV channel or service buffers or freezes
In those cases, the bottleneck is almost always the source of the stream, not the internet provider. Unfortunately, many of these pirated streaming services automatically blame the ISP when their feeds struggle — even though the issue is completely outside the local network.
To be clear:
👉 ToroNet does not block, slow, or interfere with any streaming services
👉 Our internet service delivers data as fast as the source can send it
👉 A weak or unstable source will buffer no matter how good the connection is
We’re always happy to:
* Verify that your internet connection is performing properly
* Help rule out Wi-Fi or device issues
* Recommend legal, reliable streaming options that work consistently on our network
Sadly there are no legitimate US or Canadian streaming providers servicing Mexico due to licensing and restrictive compliance codes. Some US and Canadian streaming services will work in Mexico when using a VPN router
Our goal is simply to make sure expectations are realistic and everyone understands where issues usually originate.
Thanks for supporting a local provider 💙
— ToroNet