Posted on 05/26/2016 4:27:33 PM PDT by Java4Jay
Testify, brother!
I purchased and installed a few gigabit fiber switches when I was an IT Director fifteen years ago, just before copper gigabit became available. I don’t recall them being all that expensive back then. Of course, I wasn’t paying for them out of my own pocket ;-)
They are hysterical...
How do those boxes get their data? Cellular? Satellite? Cable? DSL?
Internet service provider.
But you can get magicjack and use voip.
And you get this and get your tv over internet.
And the only bill is internet, save for a once every 5 years charge on magicjack. Which is 100 bucks for five years. Some people pay that a month for phone plans.
In fairness that’s not necessarily due to network latency. The servers take time to generate the content as well. So some sites will seem slow while others are fast. As far as movies go, yes streaming will not necessarily improve, however if you download movies (for that 3 hour wait in the security line at the airport) it will go much faster.
By choice, I'm 'way out in the boonies. My ISP is THE problem: satellite -- with 17GB download and 5GB upload limits. Even worse, the limit is a cumulative "rolling" 30 day sum limit.
I have to be extremely careful with bandwidth usage : if I exceed my limit, the ISP will throttle me back to dial-up speeds.
(Example: I just downloaded an upgrade for my code editor, and it put me up over 80% of my download limit.) If you have one "spike" of usage like that in a month, you have to wait a month for that spike to "clear" before your usage drops back down. :-(
IOW, use 15 (of 17) GB on the first of the month, and you're allowed only two (2) GB of downloads -- total -- for the rest of the month... :-(
Huge ripoff -- but the cellular services don't seem much better on usage limits...
I don't see much hope of streaming anything...
I love it. The cable companies will cringe.
Triggered?
I have Centurlink DSL which advertises 1.5 meg but they can only deliver 200 to 400K, K as in almost dialup.
The government does not want us to be informed.
I have a Mac so it loaded in my parallels/win7. I’ll try it on my win 7 machine.
DiWreckedTV
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