That channel master OTA box Lewis gave me is my favorite source of
tv. Have not figured out how to pause live TV yet, but that is only
because I am lazy.
*From:* Joe Novak
*Sent:* Friday, August 7, 2020 1:03 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
If he is using just Hulu Live TV, the quality of it in general sucks
in my opinion. I tried it out last year when I had family over for
thanksgiving so they could watch the games. I wasn't impressed.
On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 1:58 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote:
Worse are the people who move to the country then try to 'improve'
things because they know how to do it better, having lived in the
city
their whole life.
On 8/7/2020 1:54 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> I also notice the real estate market is really hot right now.
>
> I'm not sure if it's low mortgage rates, or people trying to
move away from
> Covid.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umS3XM3xAPk
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 1:37 PM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
>
> Gee, move even farther out from the city and you will have to
drill your own
> well and put in a septic tank.
> Even farther and you will be doing off grid solar and generators.
> Even farther you will have to commute with a helicopter.
>
> Never understood folks that move out into the country but
expect city type
> of infrastructure.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Burke
> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 12:33 PM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
>
> I just had a guy this week move out of the city. 'I was getting
350mb for
> what you want for 20mb, your price is too high'. I refused to
move. He
> signed up anyway. Normal user traffic pattern of <5mb/s.
>
> On 8/7/2020 1:23 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>> My latest challenge (and the kids aren't even back to school
yet) is
>> people wanting more upstream. Because 3 people in the house
are on
>> Zoom conferences, stuff like that. Or they are live streaming
events
>> on Facebook.
>>
>> The other thing, maybe a trend, I'm getting customers saying this
>> other WISP is advertising a higher speed or a lower price, and
wanting
>> me to match it.
>> I think it's similar to Nate's problem, people are wanting to
do more
>> things (like 3 simultaneous Zoom calls) and have more devices and
>> streaming services, but they don't want to pay more. So they shop
>> around, and want your steak to match a competitor's sizzle so
they can
>> get more without paying more or doing any work.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
>> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 12:49 PM
>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
>>
>> Yep, watched two partial baseball games in the last week.
>> The Houston/Arizona game had an odd audio artifact.
>> Sounded like they were broadcasting from inside a culvert.
>> It might have been a misguided effort to simulate crowd noise
but it
>> was annoying.
>>
>> No pixilation here. I love that the computer now not only
shows the
>> strike zone, but sometimes it calls balls and strikes as well as
>> giving the speed.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nate Burke
>> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 11:26 AM
>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>> Subject: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
>>
>> I've seen a big uptick in traffic over the last 2 or 3 weeks.
Aren't
>> major sports starting up again? I'm guessing all the people who
>> switched to streaming only over the summer are now streaming
the sports.
>>
>> I've been dealing with one guy, he is on our lowest plan, and
keeps
>> complaining that his sports are pixelated. And he's just gotta
have
>> sports and just doesn't understand why it's not working
perfect on his
>> 4k TV. I can see he's maxed the connection 'My speed test is only
>> 0.25mb and nothing in the house is running now, `still maxed
traffic`,
>> well the TV is on'
>> I'm
>> guessing that the Variable bitrate codecs takes more for
sports than
>> normal TV. I told him to upgrade his package, he said he
didn't want
>> to spend any more money on Internet. He's on Hulu + live TV +
Sports,
>> so that's already costing him more than what he's paying us,
probably
>> close to what satellite costs. Then He wanted to know what TV
to buy
>> to make it stream better, I told him that wouldn't help. Then he
>> wanted to know what WIFI extender to buy to make it stream
better, I
>> told him that wouldn't help. But he's claims he is on a tight
budget
>> and can't afford any more for internet. I told him to put up an
>> Antenna 'But then I can't get the sportsnet channel'
>> I told him to go find a new provider and stop calling me
then. 'But
>> I don't like Comcast...' Tough, but I'm not talking to you
anymore if
>> you're complaining about streaming. Priorities people have....
>>
>> --
>> AF mailing list
>> AF@af.afmug.com
>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>>
>>
>
> --
> AF mailing list
> AF@af.afmug.com
> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>
>
--
AF mailing list
AF@af.afmug.com
http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
AF mailing list
AF@af.afmug.com
http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
