internet/streaming
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@antipodean said in internet/streaming:
@voodoo said in internet/streaming:
@Nepia Yep, That's Tone's hood. I'm in Fairlight, round the corner. We got NBN pretty quickly, one of the first streets. Paid for 25/5 initially to test it out, we have never got better than 17/3.5.
That's your provider, not the NBN.
Yeah, maybe, but it seems to be a pretty common theme across most ISP's in Oz
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I lived in a city for 13 years and when I left in 2018 I still had ADSL, I moved to the country and now get wireless 25/5 which is a great improvement but still a bit shit.
I have my fingers crossed that Elon Musks new satellite broadband will be my saviour when he offers ridiculous speeds from space. No idea if it is possible but it would be cool if your phone could connect to Musks satellites so you could in theory never be out of signal or data.
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Neon doesn't have a lot of features, like 5.1 sound. Hopefully the platform will improve now that Sky has bought Lightbox.
Speaking of subtitles, I am finding the subtitle option on Amazon Prime via my ATV frustrating. Sometimes the subtitles work just fine but other times I need to resort to English subtitles to understand foreign language dialogue. That also means everything is subtitled!
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@Bovidae I find that so much of todays movies/series are done with poor audio volume and clarity of voices, I often turn subtitles on anyway, even when speaking English, otherwise when the inevtible fight/explosion/car chase etc comes on, the noise explodes form the TV speakers after having up so loud to hear the pesky talking stuff.
Oh, get off my lawn.
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@Bovidae @taniwharugby I hate English subtitles for english language. Drives me bonkers. I once had a German girlfriend who would insist we always have the English subtitles on (her English was pretty good) - I'm not 100% sure that insistence wasn't one of the reasons we broke up.
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Now that I've moved and no longer have FTTP, I've suddenly become massively critical of the NBN.
~250m from a node and I have to apply a stability profile so as to stop random dropouts. 🤬
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My internet continues to be 3rd world at best
I'm investigating satellite
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@mariner4life said in internet/streaming:
My internet continues to be 3rd world at best
I'm investigating satellite
Investigated that until we got direct fibre a year after we moved to (very) rural Cornwall. Thought it was a bit expensive with limited data.
Is 4G available in your area? Being used extensively in rural parts of the UK as you can be further from the mast and is dirt cheap (£40/month with unlimited data).Good speeds too - around 60Mbit/s
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@mariner4life said in internet/streaming:
My internet continues to be 3rd world at best
I'm investigating satellite
UK solution: https://bigblu.co.uk/faqs/
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I thought there was a thread somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
Anyway, our broadband is OK mostly around the house - we pay for 50mbps and typically get c. 35-40mbps
But the router thingee is in the front room of the house, and I can't pick up the signal from underneath the pool (where the pool kit lives) at the very back of the yard - it's probably 25m distance and an elevation drop of 5m too.
Is a range extender the best option? Just 1, sitting c. halfway between the router and the kit?
Thanks in advance
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@voodoo said in internet/streaming:
I thought there was a thread somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
Anyway, our broadband is OK mostly around the house - we pay for 50mbps and typically get c. 35-40mbps
But the router thingee is in the front room of the house, and I can't pick up the signal from underneath the pool (where the pool kit lives) at the very back of the yard - it's probably 25m distance and an elevation drop of 5m too.
Is a range extender the best option? Just 1, sitting c. halfway between the router and the kit?
Thanks in advance
I tried the range extender and it was fine, but switched to a mesh solution https://www.tp-link.com/us/deco-mesh-wifi/
And this has been excellent. I have two and it covers a three stories and gets around some concrete bounce issues I was having at 5Ghz
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@voodoo said in internet/streaming:
I thought there was a thread somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
Anyway, our broadband is OK mostly around the house - we pay for 50mbps and typically get c. 35-40mbps
But the router thingee is in the front room of the house, and I can't pick up the signal from underneath the pool (where the pool kit lives) at the very back of the yard - it's probably 25m distance and an elevation drop of 5m too.
Is a range extender the best option? Just 1, sitting c. halfway between the router and the kit?
Thanks in advance
I went mesh also, I am using orbi ..works well for me. As a working from home, home office requirement, made I sure claimed at tax time too
I have also heard the google nest mesh system works well too
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so something like this is the go?
https://www.harveynorman.com.au/tp-link-deco-ax1800-whole-home-mesh-wifi-system-3-pack.html
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