Buffering Live Streams

Hi folks,

Sorry if this is maybe posted in the wrong thread. I am at the end of my wits with buffering that occurs when I try to stream NHL.tv or some other sports events. I don’t have any buffering issues when watching movies, TV series or any other “non live” content. It works great in 1080P or 4K.

Some background… I am running OpenElec 6 with Kodi 16. Have 4GB of RAM with advanced settings for caching set to 1.5Gb, buffermode 1, bufferfactor 80, curltime at 300. (sorry, don’t have the actual file extract). I have a wired connection and have down speeds of up and around 150 Mbps.

I have a valid GamecenterLive account and stream NHL via NHL Tv addon. Lately I’ve been trying to watch World Junior HOckey championship and experience same problem with HD streams.

The problem is buffering. Sometimes it woulds top and buffer, sometime it would frame freeze, and other times it would play as if on FF.

At first I believed that the issue was with the NHL TV addon, but now that I am experiencing same problem with streaming other HD sports live content I go back to Kodi.

Any kind of help and suggestions would be super appreciated. Keep in mind, I am not tech savvy so you’d need to dumb it down for me.

Thank you much in advance