I've read online that the new Binge feature actually re-encodes the video to
a lower rate. I wonder how TMobile can do that without breaking the app in
question's expection to play back a certain bitrate? Wouldn't all the
protection in use with things like Netflix be broken by the carriers'
transcoding of the stream?
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From: "Scott Granados" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Cutting the cable
AT&T is your least cost effective option these days. They also throttle
heavily and do lots of manipulation of the data stream. All carriers do
this to some degree or another on the wireless side to be clear but AT&T is
known for being heavy handed.
On Jan 8, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote:
My carrier is AT&T, but you know, I think I'm just going to bite the
bullet and pay the Comcast price for cable connectivity to the Internet. I
just don't have the time interest or inclination to do a lot of
configuring of equipment.
Sent from my IPhone
On Jan 8, 2016, at 8:40 PM, Bill Dengler <[email protected]> wrote:
Why not purchase an Asus router and set up a NAS or use a USB hard drive?
Asus routers support mobile broadband modems out of the box. You will
have to do some reconfiguring in the firmware to make it work, but it
will be much better than trying to use the phone as a hotspot because it
does not have the limitations imposed by Apple and allows you to connect
wired devices to the network.
Who is your wireless provider?
Bill
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 8, 2016, at 19:32, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:
I can’t offer any opinion on the performance of the networks you’re on,
although it certainly sounds like the US has a pretty rough time of it
when it comes to fixed-line broadband competition. However, I can
definitely say that using mobile broadband as your primary Internet
connectivity, while a highly attractive proposition, comes with
pitfalls. Unless you negotiate a certain level of service, I’d say it
made for no better than a secondary option, in case the primary goes
down. It is wireless, so theoretical speeds will never be achievable in
practice. You will have to get a “Mi-Fi” router dedicated to the task
of providing your connectivity, because using an iPhone will probably
prove frustrating (a five device limit, and frequent disconnections as
the phone tries to save power). Then you need to ensure you have the
tethering add-on and whatever data allowance you might need. Finally,
most mobile connectivity uses NAT, so you won’t be running any server
services, and you might experience less performance with peer-to-peer
applications.
But, if you feel you want to, why not give it a try? It was fun for me
while I’m holiday—perhaps it’ll be fun for you the whole time. Indeed,
I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that if you want to verify the
efficacy of your technology choices, you should go on holiday. :)
Apple TV and Time Capsule can both function as wireless clients. Just
join them to your new network. Or, as you said, you could just
peer-to-peer stream to Apple TV, and continue to use AirPort for
providing a non-connected Wi-Fi and Ethernet network (you’ll have to
disable the warnings). While joined to a wireless network, AirPort’s
Ethernet ports are useless.
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