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Originally Posted by gh4chiefs
Well we'll have agree to disagree on that. There's no reason YTTV can't let me set my home and viewing locations to match and then LEAVE THEM ALONE regardless of what my internet IP is doing. My TV isn't travelling. My ROKU isn't travelling.
EDIT TO ADD: The rest of the story on this is I have a buddy who lives across town and was able to get Verizon a good 6 months before I got it. And he had YTTV. He kept encouraging me to switch from Mediacom, but I'm a big "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" guy even if it's a lot cheaper. Well eventually Mediacom become "broken" and I made the switch. But I asked my buddy repeatedly about this location issue thing and the revolving IP before switching (because I'd read Frazod's ordeal with Hulu.). He assured me he had no problems. So I got Verizon and went several months and then all of sudden this location thing became issue for both my friend and me.
So it's pretty clear to me that YTTV made some kind of switch in late 2024 because that's when the problems started for the both of us.
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If they simply allowed you to set your location once and never check again, then it wouldn't be very effective at all. It's based on the actual IP address, which is given to you by Verizon.
Like I said, it's only an issue with cellular internet. And it's because of the nature of cellular internet itself. Cellular internet like Verizon doesn't provide you with anything close to a standard IP range. It's a known issue.
YoutubeTV has had the location limitations in place for a long time. Much longer than late 24. I've had the service since the beginning, and have shared my service during a good portion of that time. It's Verizon.