Goodbye Dstv

[Stretch]

A friend of mine once told me this:

 

"Once you have made your purchase, stop shopping."

 

It's bound to happen Stretch. You got the best deal that you could at the time you were ready to buy 

 

Still cheaper than that M-net subscription that you are going to cancel/have cancelled now that you have access to all that internet TV...

 

 

ha ha..i was subsequently shopping for a watch...and happened to notice that. There were some insane Prime day deals..just annoys me that we dont get access to them here in this country. Saw samsung 40" tv's for 69 pounds...garmin Fenix watch for 229 pounds.... 

[kosmonooit]

Good to hear! Just a question for the tech gurus, does the streaming side of Kodi fall under video streaming like Netflix or does it fall under Peer to Peer data transfer like Torrent downloads ...?

Generally that would be random various 'services' re-broadcasting the steams captured from a feed,, the likes of which you can find from various links on the interweb.

 

Torrents are for downloading files of fixed sze, not really for streaming, the files are split up, although there is peer to peer offered now with Flash player. 

[Grebel]

Is anybody using Telkom Uncapped LTE? Having endless *** with my ADSL line so I signed up for the LTE deal today. R799 a month uncapped. 90Mbs download and 25Mbs upload. 50Gb cap on P2P and Newsgroups.

 

So the LTE bits are getting handed back to Telkom today...

 

After waiting for somebody to call me about the installation of the antenna, I ended up doing it myself. Logged on to the router to check signal strength etc and according to Google I am sitting in the "Good" range. HOWEVER..... the download speeds were nowhere near what was quoted. Best I saw was 15Mbs out of a claimed 90Mbs and it mostly sat at around the 4-7Mbs mark and the latency was a joke You should see the look on a young gamers face when the speed test returns a ping of 879ms...

 

Had a chat to a Telkom tech who was looking at my faulty telephone line and he reckons I am wasting my time with LTE at my address. The signal in that area is cr@p.

 

Chatted to the consultant that signed me up and she said no problem. Bring the stuff back and they will log a case and get the contract cancelled due to lack of service.

 

Looks like I am going to have to persevere with my ADSL for a while until the fibre is available

[LBKloppers]

We have never been big on the TV. Its a time thief. It prevents proper socializing and communication at home etc. and that was our opinion way before the onset of present day on-line goodies. Even when the SABC is free, we don't watch. 7de Traan is absolute rubbish and the news is nothing but propaganda for the leading political party. But I have been spoiled by my previous employer with the full premium package while I was still employed. We loved the documentaries  and I the sport, but then in less than a year everything was being re-run! At almost R800 it is a bit too much to bear. I am now unemployed and no TV. Back to chatting after dinner, playing board games and having fun - stress free - as a family. Loosing DSTV is a good riddance. All I have got to manage now is to cancel my TV license. I am NOT looking forward to dealing with those ID10Ts

[sawystertrance]

"the leading political party"?????

Care to elaborate?

[nonky]

As fiber still hasn't arrived - they're still installing - and my adsl is on a really shite exchange, i bit the bullet and signed up for DSTV for the olympics. 

 

(basically, to win some super brownie points with my missus who goes kerrazy for athletics)

 

One month and it's getting switched off again...hahahaa, we'll see how that works out.

[Stretch]

when we sell our house one day...I would love to see the look on the peoples face when they try plug their explora in and discover there is no dish installed....bwaaah

[Oxter]

Fibre Coming month end. Cannot wait!! been grinding my teeth with slow ADSL.

[Lexx]

I think i'm still going to wait another 20 years for fibre to be installed in our little town.....

[Stretch]

I swear our ADSL has been slowed down since fibre was available in the area... That.. or the kids on holiday are busy downloading porn

[Grebel]

I have been reduced to unplugging LAN cables at night just to that I can stream without buffering.... Line speeds seem to drop drastically at night in out area for some reason. I am busy looking at changing my ADSL package. 

 

Telkoms 8Gb line with a 100Gb soft cap is looking good at the moment... Comes out at about R874/month including voice

[Stretch]

 

 

Line speeds seem to drop drastically at night in out area for some reason.

It's the kids on holiday

[Willie2011]

Unotelly seems to have lost the battle with Netflix unblocking.Subscribed to Getflix and so far so good.

Need some advice.Is it worth paying for powerline adaptor to improve Wifi?My Router sits 2 rooms from my Bedroom TV with a double wall between them with a bunch of appliances(Kitchen) in the way.I have a Mweb fon router.

or should I rather spend the cash on a better router?

Not keen on moving the router.

[Grebel]

It's the kids on holiday

 

Stuff'em. I just upgraded to 10Mb...

[kosmonooit]

Unotelly seems to have lost the battle with Netflix unblocking.Subscribed to Getflix and so far so good.

Need some advice.Is it worth paying for powerline adaptor to improve Wifi?My Router sits 2 rooms from my Bedroom TV with a double wall between them with a bunch of appliances(Kitchen) in the way.I have a Mweb fon router.

or should I rather spend the cash on a better router?

Not keen on moving the router.

 

it depends, but try stay away from those WiFi 'repeaters', I don't think they are a good solution.  2nd Access Points are the way to go, there are some that use your power line for the link to your router, otherwise there is a nice budget TP Link one that will hook up via UTP cable . Bit of a mission/cost to install that, but worth it., I can be powered via a PoE adapter that normally comes with the AP.

 

You can use the same SSID, security type/password, but set it on a different channel.

[Willie2011]

it depends, but try stay away from those WiFi 'repeaters', I don't think they are a good solution.  2nd Access Points are the way to go, there are some that use your power line for the link to your router, otherwise there is a nice budget TP Link one that will hook up via UTP cable . Bit of a mission/cost to install that, but worth it., I can be powered via a PoE adapter that normally comes with the AP.

 

You can use the same SSID, security type/password, but set it on a different channel.

Im talking about the power line adaptors.already have the repeaters they are crap