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Bovidae

Neon doesn't have a lot of features, like 5.1 sound. Hopefully the platform will improve now that Sky has bought Lightbox.

Speaking of subtitles, I am finding the subtitle option on Amazon Prime via my ATV frustrating. Sometimes the subtitles work just fine but other times I need to resort to English subtitles to understand foreign language dialogue. That also means everything is subtitled!

taniwharugby

@Bovidae I find that so much of todays movies/series are done with poor audio volume and clarity of voices, I often turn subtitles on anyway, even when speaking English, otherwise when the inevtible fight/explosion/car chase etc comes on, the noise explodes form the TV speakers after having up so loud to hear the pesky talking stuff.

Oh, get off my lawn.

Nepia

@Bovidae @taniwharugby I hate English subtitles for english language. Drives me bonkers. I once had a German girlfriend who would insist we always have the English subtitles on (her English was pretty good) - I'm not 100% sure that insistence wasn't one of the reasons we broke up.

taniwharugby

@Nepia I hate the ones that are purely literal translations, and some things make no sense.

Tim

Christ, Neon's browser playback requires flash, and constantly judders. What an absolute piece of shit.

Machpants

Yeah sky is really stuck on flash, pathetic

antipodean

Now that I've moved and no longer have FTTP, I've suddenly become massively critical of the NBN.

~250m from a node and I have to apply a stability profile so as to stop random dropouts. 🤬

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mariner4life

My internet continues to be 3rd world at best

I'm investigating satellite

pakman

NEVER get between a Ferner and his fast internet.

Victor Meldrew

@mariner4life said in internet/streaming:

My internet continues to be 3rd world at best

I'm investigating satellite

Investigated that until we got direct fibre a year after we moved to (very) rural Cornwall. Thought it was a bit expensive with limited data.

Is 4G available in your area? Being used extensively in rural parts of the UK as you can be further from the mast and is dirt cheap (£40/month with unlimited data).Good speeds too - around 60Mbit/s

pakman

@mariner4life said in internet/streaming:

My internet continues to be 3rd world at best

I'm investigating satellite

UK solution: https://bigblu.co.uk/faqs/

voodoo

I thought there was a thread somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

Anyway, our broadband is OK mostly around the house - we pay for 50mbps and typically get c. 35-40mbps

But the router thingee is in the front room of the house, and I can't pick up the signal from underneath the pool (where the pool kit lives) at the very back of the yard - it's probably 25m distance and an elevation drop of 5m too.

Is a range extender the best option? Just 1, sitting c. halfway between the router and the kit?

Thanks in advance

Kirwan

@voodoo said in internet/streaming:

I thought there was a thread somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

Anyway, our broadband is OK mostly around the house - we pay for 50mbps and typically get c. 35-40mbps

But the router thingee is in the front room of the house, and I can't pick up the signal from underneath the pool (where the pool kit lives) at the very back of the yard - it's probably 25m distance and an elevation drop of 5m too.

Is a range extender the best option? Just 1, sitting c. halfway between the router and the kit?

Thanks in advance

I tried the range extender and it was fine, but switched to a mesh solution https://www.tp-link.com/us/deco-mesh-wifi/

And this has been excellent. I have two and it covers a three stories and gets around some concrete bounce issues I was having at 5Ghz

bayimports

@voodoo said in internet/streaming:

I thought there was a thread somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

Anyway, our broadband is OK mostly around the house - we pay for 50mbps and typically get c. 35-40mbps

But the router thingee is in the front room of the house, and I can't pick up the signal from underneath the pool (where the pool kit lives) at the very back of the yard - it's probably 25m distance and an elevation drop of 5m too.

Is a range extender the best option? Just 1, sitting c. halfway between the router and the kit?

Thanks in advance

I went mesh also, I am using orbi ..works well for me. As a working from home, home office requirement, made I sure claimed at tax time too

I have also heard the google nest mesh system works well too

voodoo

so something like this is the go?

https://www.harveynorman.com.au/tp-link-deco-ax1800-whole-home-mesh-wifi-system-3-pack.html

or

https://www.binglee.com.au/products/netgear-rbk353-orbi-wifi-6-dual-band-mesh-system?istCompanyId=2e85d4ef-af60-4224-af17-5b6c46620c44&istFeedId=92c02f7e-1383-4d02-b216-d25f90dbe327&istItemId=ptxawwipr&istBid=t&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8eOLBhC1ARIsAOzx5cFnFruoxb1YRTucvrReor9D8FbnRBKH8hMNqKnnMHONyyJ81TaU7RAaAna1EALw_wcB

voodoo

and you just plug and play and you're away?

Kirwan

It was a very easy setup, it creates a new network to contect to. Steps you through what you need to do, most of it automatic.

bayimports

@voodoo pretty much just make sure it connects to the type of NBN node you have and then for me without remembering exactly was close to the below;

turn on main router,
name your wifi
change default password
turn on satelite,
sync
place satelite where required
pretend to wife you had to cable and code something difficult
and youre good to go.

was not complicated for me

The Silver Fern

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