On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ed Robbins e...@erobbins.com wrote:
We started bumping into this over the Christmas break. We streamed
Netflix everyday, all day long and I was surprised to see how much
bandwidth we where chewing through. The kicker was the snow days that
lasted into the
I would have preferred to have gone with fiber but when Granite State
Telephone came out to the house they were talking about trenching
through my driveway and my neighbors driveway, plus it would be some
unknown time in the future.
I would have given up my whole driveway and half of my front
On 01/28/2011 11:18 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:
At maximum quality, which the server defaults to, Netflix streams at
4.8Mbps, which would lead to 2.1 gigs per hour of streamed content.
I'm not sure where the 'bottom' is, the 4.8 is the starting point for
'max quality', and they downshift
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote:
4800kbps (4.8MB) is the max for HD on Netflix. No US ISP can sustain that.
http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/01/netflix-performance-on-top-isp-networks.html
Those are aggregate averages, disregarding variations
On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org
wrote:
4800kbps (4.8MB) is the max for HD on Netflix. No US ISP can sustain that.
http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/01/netflix-performance-on-top-isp-networks.html
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
http://www.netflix.com/BrowseSelection
Use the Watch Instantly box in the lower left to limit to diskless
content.
FYI, the above only works if you are not logged in to a Netflix account.
If you are logged in, it
Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com writes:
On 1/26/2011 11:07 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Benjamin Scottdragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallettm...@mv.mv.com wrote:
And interested in any other comments, of course, which is why I'm not
replying off-list ..
I
I pretty heavily use Netflix instant watch and my higher months barely break
200GB, but I think most of that is downloading media from alternative
sources rather than Netflix itself because the ligher months where I'm not
doing much alternative downloading (but my Netflix watching is about the
My response to any company which doesn't want to do business with me
is to give them what they want.
I don't need TV to survive.
I don't need internet to survive either. :-D But we digress.
Their lack of ability to stream live baseball games lies with the
problems with broadcast TV
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:58:41PM -0500, Ted Roche wrote:
Before I toss them up on Craigslist, then Freecycle then the local
transfer station, I wanted to give folks a shot at this stuff. No
reasonable offer refused. Pick up in Contoocook, ship at cost or
rendezvous at a LUG meeting.
1.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallett m...@mv.mv.com wrote:
And interested in any other comments, of course, which is why I'm not
replying off-list ..
I canceled cable TV and watch all my TV via Netflix and Hulu now. I
save $60+/month and have fewer commercials (none on Netflix).
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallett m...@mv.mv.com wrote:
And interested in any other comments, of course, which is why I'm not
replying off-list ..
I canceled cable TV and watch all my TV via Netflix and Hulu now. I
save
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:59:13AM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallett m...@mv.mv.com wrote:
And interested in any other comments, of course, which is why I'm not
replying off-list ..
I canceled cable TV and watch all my TV via Netflix and Hulu
On 1/26/2011 11:07 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Benjamin Scottdragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallettm...@mv.mv.com wrote:
And interested in any other comments, of course, which is why I'm not
replying off-list ..
I canceled cable TV and watch all my TV
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
From this discussion, I learned a few things I didn't know. I hadn't
realized that Silverlight (required for Netflix) works under Linux. That
was pleasing to find out.
I've had a computer hooked up to my 52 TV for years
I think the Silverlight compatibility in Linux is from Novell's
Mono/Moonlight environment.
On Jan 26, 2011 2:06 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
From this discussion, I learned a few things I didn't know. I hadn't
On 1/26/2011 1:47 PM, Alan Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Dan Jenkinsd...@rastech.com wrote
From this discussion, I learned a few things I didn't know. I hadn't
realized that Silverlight (required for Netflix) works under Linux. That
was pleasing to find out.
I looked
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote:
Is all your TV actually available on Netflix and Hulu?
Just about everything I cared about. There might have been
something I lost, but if so, I don't miss it. I don't watch a lot of
TV to begin with, and those two give me
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
There's no equivalent listing I can find in Netflix.
http://www.netflix.com/BrowseSelection
Use the Watch Instantly box in the lower left to limit to diskless content.
Or try http://instantwatcher.com/ for a less pretty,
On 01/26/2011 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
I'm not speaking for these, (and understand #2 is gone) but I'm curious
as to why you're getting rid of them; what are you using in their
places?
Hi, Mark:
I wish you could have joined us at Wings Your Way last night! It seemed
like a
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
Mythbusters I have to go to the Discovery website to watch.
I have to go to a friend's or a sports bar to catch the Pats games
now. I can live with that.
I'm in the same boat, no cable, all internet based. I was
rant
Uhg. I feel I new subject coming on, but I don't have the heart to go there
yet. DRM is such a joke. Pirate says: You put pixels on my screen? I can
capture them. Who do they think they are? DRM serves no purpose but to
make it more difficult for legitimate users to get at the content
Just keep in mind Comcast's 250 GB cap, which we ran up against in
November. Nearly got shut down until we bought another internet-only
line (and modem) and divided our traffic between the two. Unfortunately,
even with a 2nd line we still don't have enough bandwidth to do
everything we want.
How
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm in the same boat, no cable, all internet based. I was planning
on subscribing to MLB.TV, which is available for the PS3, to be able
top watch Red Sox games this year. Come to find out, they black out
local games,
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote:
Just keep in mind Comcast's 250 GB cap, which we ran up against in
November. Nearly got shut down until we bought another internet-only
line (and modem) and divided our traffic between the two. Unfortunately,
even with a
The HDTV-5500 has been spoken for. PVR-150 still available...
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote:
Before I toss them up on Craigslist, then Freecycle then the local
transfer station, I wanted to give folks a shot at this stuff. No
reasonable offer refused.
Before I toss them up on Craigslist, then Freecycle then the local
transfer station, I wanted to give folks a shot at this stuff. No
reasonable offer refused. Pick up in Contoocook, ship at cost or
rendezvous at a LUG meeting.
1. WinTV PVR-150: $40; used lightly to record 180 episodes of
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