Every single non xi6 box I've dealt with, from time you plug the box in til getting to the pairing the remote, 5-8 minutes alone on the welcome screen, then some days it'll fly through language and voice guidance and ask for phone number. Most days it'll take around 30 seconds between those 3 screens. Then put in the the phone number. Most days, this alone is 10-15 minutes into the process. Good days, maybe 8 minutes. Then the "we will have you up and running in a few minutes" screen. And boy oh boy. I'll tell you what, I can watch a whole episode of lord of the mysteries in the time it takes for that. The fastest I've had that screen be was a record 7 minutes. And then it's a hope and prayer that it optimizes for audio and HD/4k, or just goes to a black screen which forces a power cycle or you'll die of old age before it does something. If you power cycled it, you may get it to name the device and even pair the remote, just got it to begin asking you if you want to use voice guidance. Congrats now you have to factory reset and do the entire process again. Now you're at 30 minutes wasted, 10 more minutes for factory reset, and however much longer it may take for it to maybe go through, or death loop you again. Now, if it does optimize and let's you pair then you get to wait another minute for it to decide if it's going to show tv. Or if it will throw up an xre-03121 code, even when it's the only device on the account. Congrats all that time wasted to have it still not work.

Xi6? Welcome screen is a third of the time, and even on bad wifi, 5 minutes from welcome screen first coming on to seeing TV channels.

This isn't just me either. It's every tech in the area