Oh my gall, some of your message made me laugh. :) And yes, it was confusing.
I suppose if we can't get the CC to work reliably, we were only out $35, but still.... Another option I can try is to connect it to the TV upstairs which is right beside the modem and airport. Onto my thoughts about the 2 devices. I think part of it was I had already experienced the CC for 6Months or so. From my experience, the Chrome Cast doesn't drain iPhone's battery because once you send your audio/video to the Chrome Cast, the iPhone isn't streaming anymore. Everything is being streamed via CC. Also if you have 2 iPhones in the house, it is seamless to change who streams content. There is no disconnecting or reconnecting. I could be casting Pandora, stop that, then use an iPad to cast Netflix. I noticed with Apple TV, 1 device had to disconnect from airplay, before the other device could connect. Also, phone calls that came in, stop airplay. As far as the content on the actual Apple TV device, our household didn't use the majority of it. We used airplay far more. And oy, with the home sharing, that was complicated with multiple libraries & Apple IDs. When I compared use vs cost, the Chrome Cast seemed to win. Oh another little bonus for Chrome Cast, was it was nice to Cast any Chrome tab on our Macs or PCs. Maybe there is a possibility I didn't give Apple TV enough of a chance, but I wasn't feeling the love. Lol! Which was really disappointing! Back to the wifi stuff... Having an airport express downstairs to extend the network, cuts bandwidth? Bandwith has to do with the amount of wireless traffic or something? :) Thank you, Traci On Jun 26, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Traci, > > Having Googled about a bit (this interests me, even though I don't have a > ChromeCast) it seems to me that your best resolution for this problem is to > chuck your ChromeCast in the bin and then stamp on it. Thanks for bringing > this up so I don't have to buy it, and also I'd keep a careful eye on any > physical Google product you might own. :) > > The design of the thing is fatally flawed, such that it creates an open > wireless network (which, as you can see, is interfering with your AirPort > network, to the exclusion of your Internet connection) whenever it can't get > the required connectivity. It seems that your best option, therefore, is to > ensure that your AirPort network is up and running before powering on your CC > again, but nothing says the situation will not repeat if there's a dead spot > at a future time. > > Of course you can use a repeater like the Express, however this will cut the > bandwidth in half on one of your bands. I'd really recommend either getting > your home wired up for Ethernet or (much, much less preferably!) using > HomePlug. Even that would improve the situation for your wi-fi-only devices, > because you can just add more access points without loss of bandwidth that > results from repeating. > > I appreciate that this is not always an option. If you've got to go > wireless, then get the Express. The Ethernet port on the express can be > bridged wirelessly onto your network; use Ethernet to connect devices nearest > it to your LAN. Sadly Apple removed the option to refuse wireless clients on > extensions, but it doesn't matter in your case because CC doesn't even (sigh) > have the means to be connected to a LAN via Ethernet anyway, AFAICT. > > Sorry if all this is confusing; it's all Google's fault. :) > > BTW: why do you prefer CC to AppleTV? > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
