Sorry for the (bad) English language (I'm still learning Russian).
I'm having speed problem to watch kartina TV from Brazil. Reading this thread I decided to post my questions just because yesterday (before reading this thread) I decide to try vpn from strongvpn.com, in the hope of a speed improvement. Well, it didn't help almost nothing. My Internet connection is 2 mbps (max. available speed to my local area) and normally I download files at 240 kbps (generally multithread downloads - 2 or more connections in the same file). Well, is 240kbps to slow to watch kartina tv? In the kartina's speed test I never achieved the 2 mbps recommended (my maximum was aprox. 1.8 mbps), but I assumed the risk and give a try, because on the trial test was not perfect but was ok.
I'm an user of kartina.tv since February 2010, and in the beginning was possible to watch, although occasionally pauses. At that time, sometime was practically impossible to watch. Well, recently it's almost impossible to watch all day, so I though it could be a problem connecting to kartina server from my location. So, once again, I take the risk and decided to try by vpn. After reading this thread I decided upgrade my vpn account to try by openvpn, and it was worst than 'normal' connection (without vpn) or by pptp. I'm completely new to this, never heard of it a 3 or 4 days before, but i'm struggling to improve connection speed. Here, in my location, kartina is watchable only on earlier hours of the day (aprox. 2 to 6 a.m.), and only yesterday (maybe because of vpn), at early hours of the day, I could see what is a normal watching: archive working, jumping to time working, live TV working (just waiting 2 or 3 seconds to buffer)... Well, I was completely disappointed when I discovered that the slow connection returns on the morning, afternoon and night... I know my Internet speed is not fast, but when I download (at any time of the day) I achieve 240 kbps... Is that not enough to kartina? The problem is that there is no way to create more than one connection to the stream, because I speed up downloads with multiple connections to the same file.
Well, some day I hope that I could watch Russian iptv like my local cable TV.
Sorry if I post in not appropriated location and language, and any recommendation to improve speed is welcome.