HBO GO never works!!!

You must have an HBO subscription in order to use this app.

What cable provider do you use?

Can you get the video to play through the HBO Go app on an iOS device?

By the way - HBO Go is working for me on Mac using Safari and on the iOS apps.

It works awesome on my "the new iPad". I imagine that the app is crashing because you're running iOS6. Now if I could get it to work on my TV life would be great.

What does this thread have to do with Apple TV?

k12g3 said:

Really frustrating! Do you think it's because I am using a Verizon sign in name but I have U-Verse internet? Surely that's not why it wont work....

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Nope. Doesn't matter. Otherwise HBO Go would be useless outside the home and completely pointless.

takeshi74 said:

Nope. Doesn't matter. Otherwise HBO Go would be useless outside the home and completely pointless.

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Considering that other video streaming services are often only usable on IP addresses provided by the cable provider, it isn't a completely unfounded question.

For example, I can stream all sorts of live TV to my iPad/iPhone/or Web Browser via the TW TV app, however, it only works when on an IP address provided by TW.

It's not out of the question to think that HBO Go and other services may only work on the IP address associated with your video provider you used to log into the service.

I know this board is a bit old, but I'm having the exact same problem and it's only started recently. I don't think I have anything like what the OP said was the cause of his problem (I wouldn't know for sure though, I'm really a computer novice compared to everyone here).

I have a theory that it's because school is out so a lot more kids are at home going online in the middle of the day, because I've used it plenty of times in the past year without having the "hbogo cannot play this video at this time" message. (Our internet isn't the best either, it's slow usually on the weekends even when it's working like normal.) Other than upgrading our Comcast, I'm not sure if there's anything I can do, unless anyone on here has any ideas.

I find it very frustrating because I have a netflix account, and that's been fine mostly without any serious problems, and even the free hulu streaming service works well in the middle of the day. I don't understand why hbogo would be such a hassle compared to these other streaming sites.