Buffering Issue Kodi 17.1

I’ve just purchased an new Android box with 6.0
I uninstalled the existing version of Kodi ( 16.1 ) and installed a fresh copy of Kodi 17.1.
Everything installed perfectly. Up and running in minutes.

One problem I seem to have is, no buffering. The biggest problem is on live streams. If there is a lag in the stream, it completely drops out and stops instead of giving me the buffering box.
I’ve searched in here and this thread seems to describe the same problem:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=300679
But this was on a 64 bit version back in Dec last year.

I’ve checked and there is NO advanced settings file to mess things up.
Is there a setting that is not quite right for the buffering or something?

Thanks for any help.