Goodbye Dstv

[Frosty]

At last, the wife has conceded that there is nothing to watch on DStv. Our premium subscription will be terminated for good and the ADSL line bumped up to max possible speed (4Mbps unfortunately) from the current 2Mbps.

 

Over the last 2-3 months, she's mastered how to use Kodi - so much that she goes there first before using the DStv remote. The Roku3 gives us the option of Hulu as an additional option for some series.

 

I don't regret "not doing it" sooner, but I will enjoy the extra cash in the pocket from next month. At least the Kodi/Roku3 option has been running in parallel for more than 6 months.

[Cyclewizz]

At last, the wife has conceded that there is nothing to watch on DStv. Our premium subscription will be terminated for good and the ADSL line bumped up to max possible speed (4Mbps unfortunately) from the current 2Mbps.

 

 

IMO a 4Mps line isn't enough. 

I'm also stuck with a 4Mbps line and it sucks.

 

You have small kids who aren't interested in the interwebs.

My kids rape that line until it can no more.

 

I pray each day for fibre but my prays haven't been answered - yet.

 

My line is currently dead and it takes Telkom weeks to come and fix it.

But I live in hope.

[Stretch]

4mbps is doable...but 10 makes it so much easier

[Grebel]

I have a "20Mb" line (Telkom say only a 10Mb line is available but Afrihost tested mine at 12Mb so I pay the extra R25 a month and grab what I can over and above the 10Mb...) and I wish for more....

 

We try stream at 480p while the two older kids surf and game in the study and the little guy is on Youtube. We have a few buffering issues depending on the stream but mostly it works out. 

 

Sometimes I have to "pull rank" and shut down devices but I think that has a lot to do with the quality of the stream TBH.

 

You can always do with a bit more

 

If it's just you, 4Mb should be OK

 

Edit: this is copper.... No Fibre available yet

Edited February 22, 2017 by Grebel

[Stretch]

I have a "20Mb" line (Telkom say only a 10Mb line is available but Afrihost tested mine at 12Mb so I pay the extra R25 a month and grab what I can over and above the 10Mb...) and I wish for more....

 

We try stream at 480p while the two older kids surf and game in the study and the little guy is on Youtube. We have a few buffering issues depending on the stream but mostly it works out. 

 

Sometimes I have to "pull rank" and shut down devices but I think that has a lot to do with the quality of the stream TBH.

 

 

with my Fibre 10Mb, i can successfully stream at 720p on the TV while the kids stream at 360p on the computer.

 

but i too..sometimes have to pull rank

[Cyclewizz]

12MB ADSL and 10MB Fibre - you guys are making me sad !!!!

 

4MB is ok if I'm alone at home but yes 10MB; 12MB; 20MB, etc is much, much better

[Grebel]

12MB ADSL and 10MB Fibre - you guys are making me sad !!!!

 

4MB is ok if I'm alone at home but yes 10MB; 12MB; 20MB, etc is much, much better

 

Before I started this streaming journey, I was on a 1Mb Telkom line..... so you already a few steps ahead

 

Your hardware/software/service will evolve to a point where you are happy. (But you'll never be happy... *insert evil laugh*)

[Frosty]

My 2MB line has been working fine for the last 6 months. Certainly not ideal (read: HD), but we've managed to watch plenty movies and series in this time.

 

If I wasn't happy, I'd certainly be holding onto that R899/month rip off.

[Cyclewizz]

Before I started this streaming journey, I was on a 1Mb Telkom line..... so you already a few steps ahead

 

Your hardware/software/service will evolve to a point where you are happy. (But you'll never be happy... *insert evil laugh*)

 

I started off with a Cell C 10GB contract, put the sim into a 3G modem and into a Router.

Then we went onto a 1MB line, then a 2MB line and now 4MB line.

 

Often wonder how on earth we managed on a 1MB and 2MB line.

 

Would upgrade tomorrow if I could.

 

Never mind the rain dance, I need to do the Fibre dance 

[Stretch]

I started off with a Cell C 10GB contract, put the sim into a 3G modem and into a Router.

Then we went onto a 1MB line, then a 2MB line and now 4MB line.

 

Often wonder how on earth we managed on a 1MB and 2MB line.

 

Would upgrade tomorrow if I could.

 

Never mind the rain dance, I need to do the Fibre dance 

 

14.4 modem was what I started on at university, and then my first job in 1996 we put in a dedicated 56.6k line and i thought i had died and gone to heaven....more because of the dedicated part of it....so it was unlimited access...no bandwidth restrictions back then though 

Edited February 23, 2017 by Stretch

[shaper]

Started on kodi 3 odd years ago with 1mb, then 2mb, quickly followed by 4mb and have now been on 8mb for the last 10 months or so.  At each point have taken the advantage of upgrading as the service provider drops their price or upgrade you at no additional cost.

 

Back then in the early days of me being on XBMC (now Kodi) a 1mb line was perfect (I guess as there were not so many streaming)... the issue is that as more an more move across to streaming, the more we will need faster download speeds and quality lines to avoid the buffering .... so is a sort of a curse of the success of the likes of Kodi and other streaming software.

 

As for me still happy on an 8mb ADSL, although have heard that we may be getting fibre in the complex in the next couple of months

[Cyclewizz]

14.4 modem was what I started on at university, and then my first job in 1996 we put in a dedicated 56.6k line and i thought i had died and gone to heaven....more because of the dedicated part of it....so it was unlimited access...no bandwidth restrictions back then though 

 

I didn't want to go that far back as it would give my age away 

 

But yes, 14.4, 28.8, 56k

At the one stage had satellite, send via modem and receive via satellite

[Frosty]

Generation Y probably can't relate to this:

 

[Frosty]

[WrightJnr]

My suburb was lit up in Jan with fibre. Been running 100Mb since mid-Jan. I have no words! R999 all in uncapped, unshaped & unthrottled from CoolIdeas. It's like someone downloaded the World Wide Web onto my local network.

 

I booted DSTV completely over a year ago. Booted Telkom completely in Jan. Their stranglehold on consumers will end. And it will be too late.

 

 

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[Stretch]

999 for 100mb ... That's impossible... Is that your data only?