Before answer to your questions please allow me to share with you about what it mean by 10Mbps. The 10Mbps given by the ISP only the "last mile" best effort, it does not mean you have 10Mbps Internet bandwidth worldwide. The below photo explained what is "last mile"?
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The above route shown how the Internet traffic route from Malaysia to server in China(pptv.com). The first 4 hops you will enjoy 10Mbps bandwidth, after hop 5 the Internet Infrastructure belongs ChinaMobile in Hong Kong. From there onwards TM does not ensure you have 10Mbps bandwidth any more, you might just have 1Mbps or less after hop 5 and above because the line is shared among the population in Hong Kong and China. I hope you could get what I mean in the short explanation. Normally the bandwidth to US web site no problem because there is big pipe from Malaysia/Singapore to US, but if you need to access web site in country other than US, Japan, Europe then you will have bandwidth problem.

1). If you understand the above Internet bandwidth explanation, it has explained why you need 9 hours to download the firmware. I grant my customers access to my sky drive to download the firmware which is much faster. Pls refer to my thread FAQ, question #8 about how to upgrade firmware in Q5.

2). Not all channels are lapping, my CCTV and WuNan Wei Shi is running smoothly with 1Mbps Streamyx. Again it depend on the International internet trunk between TM and China.

3). PPS has been acquired by Baidu since May, please try Baidu Apps instead of PPS as no further development since version 1.4.1.

4). I presumed you are using PPTV in the HiTV. Pls download the PPTV Phone version from the Play Store and play directly without the HiTV.

5). Yes.

6). Please download from http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-android/downloads/list, choose none Neon version.

7). Please check the topic #333 as below link :
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry61147272

P/S : I am sorry for the late response, I need some time to prepare the above answer.

Hi nicety. Thank for helping but I have more questions...sorry for keep asking questions...
1. how to watch hong kong tvb tv drama in himedia?
2. why I can't play hong kong tvb drama in PPTV and PPS?
3. My wifi is having problem after upgrade to 1.1.4 and the quality of the connection over wifi having some issues, the connection keep on dropping, do you guys having the same issues? (my unit is himedia Q5)?
4. how to downgrade back to 1.1.2 or 1.1.1 after upgrade to 1.1.4?  Can I just downgrade the firmware directly from 1.1.4 to 1.1.2 or 1.1.1?

Pls find below :

1). There is tricks in Android. (what is the tricks?)
2). PPS and PPTV only allow to broadcast TVB drama within China region. Malaysia IP address is blocked. Pls use proxy to bypass the blocking. (how to bypass the blocking?)
3). I hv upgraded many units of Q5 and Q10 to firmware 1.1.4 and no issues with Wifi.
4). To downgrade the firmware, just download the different version and do the same steps as firmware upgrade.

Already mentioned in the earlier thread, you have to find proxy IP to bypass the blocking.

Was wondering if anyone could help with the following problem. Suggestions/solutions are appreciated. At times, when it is powered on, after giving it a couple of minutes to boot up, the HiMedia Player Q5 suddenly decides to shut itself off. Tried to tinker with it but t no avail and would like to know how to fix this problem. Also, at time upon startup, it tends to overheat. Thanks.

Hi Pls PM me for Q5 best price.....and Im new this gadget...I will mostly use it to watch live tv..it is easy to setup live tv? tks

relating to xbmc on q5,
For tvb program ,google n install zip  dknight international repo n choose azdrama.
for (china) proxy ,It's applicable for ppstream ,
Which must get from addon Chinese dharma.zip.
Pptv app must also be installed for ppstream to work.
For mashup to work need to update to latest version 1.3.6. Also must get playercorefactory.xml so that it can work with mxplayer free version .

Bro, seems like Q5 dual core has been released. Are you bringing it in?

Was wondering if anyone could help with the following problem. Suggestions/solutions are appreciated. At times, when it is powered on, after giving it a couple of minutes to boot up, the HiMedia Player Q5 suddenly decides to shut itself off. Tried to tinker with it but t no avail and would like to know how to fix this problem. Also, at time upon startup, it tends to overheat. Thanks.

im having this issue as well
send back for repair but came back same issue and additional issue..
when send for warranty you will not get back the same unit
you will probably end up with other ppl problematic unit

sigh.....

Sorry bro, dual core only released in China only. Due to some bugs waiting to be fix, the release of Q5 II has been postpone until further notice. The is the commitment from Himedia to deliver workable product in the market.

any idea on when Q5 II will be brought to Msia? just an estimation

I have been estimated since June to July and now to August, I am so sorry this is beyond my influence and could not give a good estimation date.