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All-Pro [691]
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Question for you streaming TV
Aug 7, 2019, 6:57 AM
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What speed do you subscribe to from your internet provider? Is there a minimum requirement?
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Legend [16764]
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I want to piggyback your question...
Aug 7, 2019, 7:08 AM
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Do those wifi extenders really work?
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All-Pro [691]
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Re: I want to piggyback your question...
Aug 7, 2019, 7:12 AM
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My extender really helped us. We have full signal throughout our house where we once had dead spots. I bought a Belkin at Walmart for around $50.
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Re: I want to piggyback your question...
Aug 7, 2019, 7:13 AM
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I had a range extender and did not like it - had to log in separately for each zone and degradation of speed. I now have a mesh system (Google Mesh) and love it. No loss in speed; over 100mps most of the time and only one wi-fi login.
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MVP [541]
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Re: I want to piggyback your question...
Aug 7, 2019, 9:05 AM
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Google Mesh is the way to go. Coworker put me on to it. Best my small town cable can give me in my subdivision is 25mbs. I'm clocking 22-25mb wired at the wifi router and 21mb on the opposite end and floor of my house on Google Mesh. So minimal drop off throughout whole house.
It is pricey for 3 hubs though - $250+ probably. But when you attach to your wifi, you actually run 2 concurrent networks. So you can put different things on different networks so as not to overload one network.
As for streaming, I was told 15mb is minimum for live TV streaming but not sure how accurate that is.
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Re: I want to piggyback your question...
Aug 7, 2019, 1:40 PM
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This. Mesh is the way to go. I was never happy with my range extenders. I tried the powerline adapters, which were ok, but not great. I recently picked up the Netgear Orbi, and I'm in love. It reaches every inch of my property with full strength, and I don't have to shuffle between three different networks every time I move between the extender and the router.
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Oculus Spirit [97697]
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They extend the signal. That's it.
Aug 7, 2019, 8:02 AM
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They will not increase speed. Best used if you have an area where your signal drops. Now a mesh system can increase speed because they keep a direct signal on a dedicated channel to the router then acts like another router otherwise. An extender just piggyback on the same signal to the router so you see no speed increase just a stronger signal.
Overall you're better with a mesh system than a router and extender.
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Re: I want to piggyback your question...
Aug 7, 2019, 8:03 AM
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I use wifi extenders that have a hard-wire, and those work well for my security cameras, but I think they degrade my wifi if not using the hard-wire. I'm going to check out that Google mesh thingy that someone mentioned above. That sounds like a better solution.
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Legend [19610]
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I hve used both a regular extender and a powerline.
Aug 7, 2019, 8:12 AM
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A powerline uses your houses' exisiting wiring to extend the signal to a extender box. A regular extender is a radio relay.
Mots people say Powerline extenders work better but I had much more success withe the standard extender.
I have ATT fiber. The TV nearest to the modem gets 120+ mbps. The TV downstairs only gets 5-10 mbps without the extender. With the extender it picks up 50-75 mbps.
The "normal" IP providers(HULU, Youtube, VUE, Prime,Netflix etc.) only require 5-10 mbps to maintain smooth streaming. But if you are using another IPTV, such as Vontronix, you will need to have a better mbps, usually above 20. With most IPTV, each channel has different performance, so you may be able to watch MTV with no issues but have MeTV occasionaly freeze.
With ATT internet, I can have 2 video game systems, 3 TV's. Alexa and multiple other devices running off of it at the same time with little issue.
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All-TigerNet [13038]
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Powerline works great.
Aug 7, 2019, 8:17 AM
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I've been using it for 5+ years and it's ridiculously easy and rarely ever has issues. You just plug two little boxes into the outlets, one by your modem/router and one by your computer and then connect them with a couple of short cat5 wires and you're done.
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Legend [17606]
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To answer your initial question, ME,
Aug 7, 2019, 7:21 AM
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I have ~35 mbps and have zero issues. It's just me and the wife, so our wifi data demand is fairly low. A lot depends on how much wifi data you consume as a household. Here's an article that may be helpful.
https://www.reviews.org/internet-service/best-internet-streaming/
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Oculus Spirit [97697]
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House with 3 kids and no cable. We use around 1.5TB a month.***
Aug 7, 2019, 8:04 AM
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Orange Blooded [2203]
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I have Xfinity Blast
Aug 7, 2019, 7:31 AM
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With speeds up to 150 Mbps. I probably don't need it this fast, but it sure is nice.
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Re: Question for you streaming TV
Aug 7, 2019, 7:33 AM
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50mb is plenty for your situation. You would probably be fine with half of that.
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Oculus Spirit [97697]
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Standard HDTV uses 5mbps.
Aug 7, 2019, 7:55 AM
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If you want to stream in HD to 4 TVs at once you'd need 20mbps. 4k uses up to 20mbps. So 4 4K TVs streaming at once would use 80mbps.
Anyway 100mbps is fine for most people. 50 if you don't stream 4k.
I have 400mbps so I just don't worry. I think Spectrum standard in my area is 100mbps which is fine even for 4k streaming.
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All-TigerNet [13038]
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When i moved into my new house 2 years ago
Aug 7, 2019, 8:10 AM
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my only option was 30mb ATT UVERSE (actually had nothing at all for 2 months before i got ATT) and it worked fine. I now finally have Xfinity 100mb available, but i hate Comcast and i don't really want to switch if i don't have to. The only time i have issues with the ATT service is when 2-3 things are being streamed at the same time and it kind of depends on what's being streamed. If my wife is trying to stream a show in HD and I'm trying to watch live sports in HD it sometimes has a little trouble. If my daughter is streaming cartoons and I'm streaming live sports there's never any issue. And, for whatever reason, i had a lot more trouble with Hulu Live dropping picture quality than YouTubeTV.
TLDR: 100+ is probably preferable, but you can get away with less than you think.
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All-In [30775]
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Fiber .. I don't understand how you guys in trailers
Aug 7, 2019, 8:16 AM
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Live with your aluminum foil internet.
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Orange Blooded [2407]
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Re: Question for you streaming TV
Aug 7, 2019, 9:37 AM
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The max my internet can provide is 10 MB. My only only choice would be satellite internet 
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