I need more upload speed!

[erub]

Then I got the Slingbox. Well, more specifically I installed it on my parents' DirecTV in Dallas, mainly so I could watch Dallas Mavericks games at college. It's pretty handy, my dad uses it to watch occasional TV from work, and I can also utilize the TiVo to record and watch whatever I want. But when watching live basketball, the upload speed just doesn't cut it for high quality viewing, unless the picture is really tiny. I've had my friends over and hooked up my laptop to my TV to watch a game, and its obviously jerky when viewed on a 32 inch TV..Its watchable for sure, but more bandwidth would be so much better.

My parents have SBC DSL, and I am getting consistently around ~420 kbps (off of a connection sold as 512 kbps - plenty of bandwidth on my side)..I think I would need about 1200 kbps (what was going over the home network) for flawless video). Yet SBC's Project Lightspeed might force me to wait for a big upload jump until mid-2008..

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

How much was the slingbox?

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
How much was the slingbox?

$209 from Amazon, free ship

 

[spidey07]

so get a business service?

 

[Zolty]

420 does = 512 kbs after you figure in tcp/ip overhead also good luck getting sbc to care about your upload. Just my $0.02 from working for a telecommunications company.

 

[erub]

its actually sold as 384-512 kbps so i guess i'm getting pretty close to that..just wish it was better

 

[Goosemaster]

I am happy with beyond TV...too bad the live video tuning is disabled when you isntall even one hardware encoder card

Otherwise you'd havea a compeltely web-browser accessible PVR that allows for remote recording and watching and channel changing and everything

 

[Pepsi90919]

you had your friends over to your own house where the slingbox was? so wouldn't the slingbox be on your own logical network? how would your internet upload speed fix that?

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
you had your friends over to your own house where the slingbox was? so wouldn't the slingbox be on your own logical network? how would your internet upload speed fix that?

no, sorry, i had my friends over to my apartment in college, about 200 miles away from the Slingbox..need more upload speed on my parents' side in Dallas

mavericks are going to win!!

 

[Goosemaster]

I jsut setup orb and am REALLY impressed...so far it screws up with divx files but mpeg2 files buffer and play liek a dream

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I jsut setup orb and am REALLY impressed...so far it screws up with divx files but mpeg2 files buffer and play liek a dream

How does it compare to BTV4?

 

[randym431]

slingbox suports ANY a/v device with a/v outs. I dont see how orb, a software program, can do that? You cant hook orb up to your dvd or tivo in the livingroom. Two totally diff things.

 

[FoBoT]

dude, that sounds sweet, should i buy one?

 

[HomerSapien]

Originally posted by: randym431
slingbox suports ANY a/v device with a/v outs. I dont see how orb, a software program, can do that? You cant hook orb up to your dvd or tivo in the livingroom. Two totally diff things.

Orb is great for people that have computer based pvrs. It really just provides that transporting of the video to other computers. Setups i have read about at SageTv forums have some really nice setups.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I jsut setup orb and am REALLY impressed...so far it screws up with divx files but mpeg2 files buffer and play liek a dream

How does it compare to BTV4?

it kicks ass....assuming that you haven't setup your BTV for web streaming.


Basically, I can tune channels, watch recording in any format (all are transcoded to wmv on demand) and not have to worry about portable formats.

with BT4 I can stream mpeg2 over a network but that isn't even remotely possible over the web due to bandwidth concerns. In addition, to make it work on the web, it would only stream wmv files and I would have to showsqueeze everything.

THis keeps it nice and simpe.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I jsut setup orb and am REALLY impressed...so far it screws up with divx files but mpeg2 files buffer and play liek a dream

How does it compare to BTV4?

it kicks ass....assuming that you haven't setup your BTV for web streaming.


Basically, I can tune channels, watch recording in any format (all are transcoded to wmv on demand) and not have to worry about portable formats.

with BT4 I can stream mpeg2 over a network but that isn't even remotely possible over the web due to bandwidth concerns. In addition, to make it work on the web, it would only stream wmv files and I would have to showsqueeze everything.

THis keeps it nice and simpe.

I just wish it was ~$80 or so cheaper.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I jsut setup orb and am REALLY impressed...so far it screws up with divx files but mpeg2 files buffer and play liek a dream

How does it compare to BTV4?

it kicks ass....assuming that you haven't setup your BTV for web streaming.


Basically, I can tune channels, watch recording in any format (all are transcoded to wmv on demand) and not have to worry about portable formats.

with BT4 I can stream mpeg2 over a network but that isn't even remotely possible over the web due to bandwidth concerns. In addition, to make it work on the web, it would only stream wmv files and I would have to showsqueeze everything.

THis keeps it nice and simpe.

I just wish it was ~$80 or so cheaper.

orb is free.