Two ways to look at it, Freeriders stories etc are really good cover stories for we dont wont you to properly test it when footy is on cause server is shite. Here's a 2 hour trial with sport Wednesday at 4pm Or you can have a weekend trial with no sport, both kind of trial are as useful as a chocolate fire guard.No supplier in reality unless they are totally desperate going to give you a trial with sports.
If a service is oveoaded it will buffer what ever channel you put it on.
freeriders would be another issue prime e.g you see it the request thread almost treble when PPV is on.
The only way to be sure of a supplier is take out a month. That is the true test
Genrally if you use TK vets or VIP members you won't get any issues that can't be resolved.
But yes as i stated take a month till your happy.