The Glomax8K FAQ, Written for Canadian Homes

It is live TV carried over your internet connection instead of a Bell or Rogers cable line. The channels play inside a small app on whatever screen you own; you type in a host address, a username and a password once — we send them on WhatsApp — and the full 25,000+ channel list and 120,000+ on-demand titles load themselves.

One screen is $17 for a month or $99 for the year, which lands near $8 a month and is where most people settle. Two, three and five-screen terms are listed on the pricing page. Everything is in US dollars, there is no contract, and no card is kept on file.

Yes, and using it properly is the whole idea. For 24 hours you hold a full account — every channel, the on-demand library, the guide — set up over WhatsApp. Nothing is charged, no card is asked for, and it lapses on its own once the day is done.

Anything that runs apps, in practice: Fire TV Sticks, Android TVs and boxes, Samsung and LG smart TVs from roughly 2016 on, Apple TV, iPhones and iPads, Roku, Windows and Mac, plus MAG and Formuler boxes. Because the account is a standard Xtream login, the one set of details covers every screen in the house.

Usually about fifteen minutes. The order, the payment and the setup all happen in one WhatsApp thread, and your login lands there the moment payment is confirmed. No technician, no appointment window — and a message sent overnight is answered first thing.

CBC, CTV, Global and Citytv, the Sportsnet and TSN sports channels, the movie and specialty tiers, the Québec French networks, rolling news, a kids section, and television from around 60 countries. The channel page shows the backbone; the app itself carries a far longer list.

All of it, and it is where a good service earns its keep, because everyone piles on at puck drop. The full NHL, the Raptors and Blue Jays, the CFL and the Grey Cup, plus the Premier League, Formula 1, UFC and boxing — each on its own channel, most with a 4K feed on the big nights.

Usually not, and we never sell it as compulsory. The one case it helps is an ISP that throttles video in the evenings; pointing at a nearby server, Toronto or Vancouver, gives the speed back. Otherwise it just adds a hop you do not need.

Around 10 Mbps holds HD and 25 holds 4K, but steadiness matters far more than the headline number. A rock-solid 50 beats a flaky 200, because streams break on the drop-outs rather than the average. Running the box on an Ethernet cable instead of Wi-Fi clears up most issues on its own.

Seven days on every term. If it will not run on your gear and support cannot get it going, tell us within that week of activation and you get the full amount back. The refund page lays out exactly what is covered and what is not.

The term sets that, not the app. A one-screen term plays a single stream at a time even though you can install the player anywhere; the two, three and five-screen terms raise the limit, are priced on the pricing page, and can be bumped up whenever you like.

Choose a term, tap WhatsApp, and the sale wraps up in the chat. Once payment is confirmed the host address, username and password come back in the same thread — usually within fifteen minutes — with a pointer to the right setup guide for your device.

By the month it is $17. Take a longer term and the effective rate drops: $39 covers three months, $65 covers six, and $99 covers the year — about $8 a month. The columns above add the two, three and five-screen prices, all in US dollars.

$17 a month or $99 a year is our floor, and it is worth knowing why nothing serious runs much cheaper. Servers, bandwidth and staff cost money every month; a year advertised at $30 is being subsidised somehow, or run by someone who does not plan to stay. Affordable is fine — impossibly cheap is a warning.

Twelve months is $99 for one screen, $169 for two, $229 for three and $329 for five. The channel count, the on-demand library, the 4K feeds and the support are identical on all of them — the only variable is how many streams run at once.

None, and you should ask that of any provider. The figure on the page is the whole cost; nothing recurs by itself. When a term ends a WhatsApp reminder arrives and the call is yours — no setup fee, no contract, nothing lurking to cancel.

We lay out what is available in the WhatsApp chat when you order, since the simplest option differs from person to person. Whatever you choose, never send a full card number as plain text in any chat — to us or anyone else. It is never a safe way to pay.

Any time. Message us and we move the account up a tier, charging only the pro-rated difference for the days left rather than restarting the term. The login stays the same; what increases is the number of streams that can run together.

Free playlists are scraped feeds shared by the thousand, and they act like it: dead within days, no guide, nobody to ask when they stop. Weighed against $17 for a month that survives a Saturday night of hockey, the comparison makes itself.

Right here, directly. Pick a term, press WhatsApp, and the payment, activation and setup all happen in one conversation. A good rule: only buy from a seller with a real website, prices out in the open, a trial on offer and a refund policy in writing.

Three things arrive in the chat — a host address, a username and a password. Open any player, enter them once, and the channel list downloads by itself. Unsure which player your TV needs? Say so and we point you to the guide that fits.

Often nothing, because something in the house already handles it. If you do buy, a Fire TV Stick at $40 to $60 is plenty. Purpose-built Formuler and MAG boxes run $130 to $220 and only earn their place on the main living-room TV.

Yes — a 7-day guarantee sits behind every order. If the service will not run on your device and support cannot fix it, you are refunded. The one thing it will not cover is simply changing your mind after everything has been working.

On every term, with no premium tier and no surcharge. Each 4K feed sits beside an HD copy of the same channel, so whenever the line is stretched there is a lighter version ready to take over.

Yes — 24 hours, no card. The trick is to run it when it matters: a Saturday full of hockey, not a quiet weeknight. Half-empty servers flatter any provider, so a busy evening is the only honest test.

You can, and for a first order we would suggest it. Take one month, sit through a demanding weekend, and switch to the year once you trust it. Paid month by month, a year works out about $105 more than the annual term — that gap is simply what certainty up front costs.

During the 24 hours, yes. The forever-free lists are a different animal — scraped together, wobbly, dead inside a week, and handed out on pages that double as a malware trap. Twenty-four hours on a properly run service is what free should actually look like.

The same account a paying customer gets — the complete 25,000+ list, the movie library, the programme guide and the 4K feeds. It is the full thing, not a cut-down demo, because only the full thing answers the question that counts: does it stay solid on your line and your television?

No card, and no billing information of any kind. We set the trial up over WhatsApp, it lasts the 24 hours, and then it simply stops. Nothing to cancel, and it will not roll over into a paid plan on the quiet.

Minutes, usually. It is issued by a person in the WhatsApp thread, not an automated system — a touch slower late at night, but it lets whoever answers guide you through the player while the app is open in front of you.

Most of the apps cost nothing — IPTV Smarters Pro, XCIPTV, the web player — while Smart IPTV charges a one-time fee per television. Every one of them, though, opens blank until you feed it a subscription; the channels never live in the app itself.

As a rule, one to a home — the trial exists to test the service on your equipment, not to be an ongoing source of free channels. If it genuinely broke on the first attempt, say so and we will usually run a second.

Open a player, pick its Xtream Codes login, and type in the host, username and password we send on WhatsApp. From there the channel list and the programme guide build themselves. The setup hub has a walkthrough for every device if you want the exact menus.

For the money, the Fire TV Stick 4K: around $40 to $60 at Best Buy or Amazon.ca, takes every IPTV app, and does 4K. The Nvidia Shield is the strongest performer, and a Formuler box suits anyone who wants purpose-built hardware. Glomax8K runs on all three.

For a set-top feel, TiViMate wins — a grid guide plus a split view. IPTV Smarters Pro is the easiest start and costs nothing. On a Samsung or LG with no box attached, grab IPTV Smarters or Smart IPTV straight from the store built into the set.

The plan carries 25,000+ live channels and 120,000+ films and series. In practice most people pin a favourites row of forty or fifty and dip into the rest for the hockey, the baseball and events from back home.

No — Netflix is a separate subscription and is not part of any IPTV service. What Glomax8K includes is a large on-demand library inside the app, and a good share of those titles also turn up on Netflix, Crave and Prime.

Yes. The full NHL, the Raptors, the Blue Jays and the CFL all sit in the sports category, most in HD and several with a 4K feed on the night. Live hockey is what people most often take the trial to check first.

IPTV as a technology is perfectly legal; it is how Sportsnet+, TSN+ and DAZN reach you. What matters is whether the provider holds the rights to the channels it carries. Our legality article explains how to weigh up a provider and what Canadian copyright law actually says.

Rights holders can go to court to have pirate services blocked, and there has been more of it around live sport. We keep several routes and our own DNS running to stay dependable; if a channel ever drops out, message support for the backup address.

If it only fails at busy times or only on your home line, your ISP may be throttling the traffic. Try the same channel on mobile data — if it runs there, the fixed line is the culprit. Moving to the backup server address from support usually clears it.

In Canada, enforcement has focused on the operators and sellers of pirated services rather than individual viewers, and the notice-and-notice system means an ISP may forward a rights-holder notice. Even so, watching content without the rights behind it carries a risk. Choosing a provider you can hold to account, and reading our legality guide, is the sensible course.

Go the reseller way: credits at wholesale dollar rates, a panel to open and manage customer accounts, and subscriptions sold under your own brand. Nothing technical to run and no servers to stand up. The rates and the detail are on the reseller page.

Send us reseller on WhatsApp. We take you through the credit packs, issue panel access the same day, and add a short starter note on setting prices and keeping your own customers happy.

Both providers and their resellers sell directly. Choose one with a real website, a trial on offer, a written refund policy and support hours that actually exist. Steer clear of a seller who only ever appears inside a WhatsApp thread or a social-media handle.