"It shockingly bad, genuinely can't understand why it's such a poor service, every other company in the business seems to be able to manage it, even the free ones. RTE is not free, don't pay them and you'll get a fine, whether you want the service or not," one Twitter user posted, while another simply said, "We want your organisation to close down".
A spokesperson for RTÉ Player, the company in charge streaming the World Cup in Ireland, confirmed in a statement to The Independent.ie that a "small number" of users watching Ireland v Scotland have contacted them about their streaming difficulties.
"With any live event of this scale served over IP across 1000s of different devices, there are inevitably going to be some variances in user streaming quality," the statement read.
Meanwhile, Spark Sport have since promised viewers that they have addressed problems that caused streaming issues during the All Blacks' 23-13 win over the Springboks on Saturday night.
They added that problems including buffering and pixelated images for some customers was not caused by New Zealand's broadband capacity.
"Midway through the first half we identified that the quality of the video stream was fluctuating for some customers," the company said in a statement.
"This meant that customers experienced brief, intermittent periods of reduced video quality such as pixilation and buffering.
"We were uncomfortable at the quality of the experience our customers were getting and, as we always said we would, we moved quickly to provide them with an alternative means of watching the match. We had prior established procedures with our partner TVNZ to enable live, free-to-air coverage at short notice."
