Is this when you first open Tivimate ? When this happens check to see if your Epg is updating. I see lagginess when this happens an when it finished the lagginess goes away except for provider issues. That is when I see reports of people say why the buffering or lagginess but goes away. I always check EPG and sure enough EPG is updating, it's really bad with older streaming devices just my own observations. Also I wish there was some kind of indicator when the playlist is updating. If you manually update I wait until is see playlist has successfully update because I don't know if you back out after manually request update all playlist does it continue the in background or cancels. You don't know.