TV Show you like the most

[scottmccloud]

Just get yourself a Chromecast, brilliant little device and only about £30. Cast from your PC or your phone.

 

[TallBloke]

Have been watching Suits but feel its dipped after each season. We're on season 4 now. Wife still thinks its good but I find story lines drag.

 

[RobM]

I have an android box on the TV with modbro and kodi. Since then I've never had to subscribe to netflix, local cable etc - totally free. The trouble is... I barely watch tv but keeps the wife and kids happy.

 

[monaghan]

@monaghan I have something similar to this for connecting to Netflix and Amazon Video. I like watching TV on a TV!

My bluray used to do netflix, but they've slowly killed the apps on it over the last few updates - catch 22, many of the discs need the update to play, but each update seems to remove Internet features (of course the Facebook app is still there and who wants to do facebook on a bluray player!

 

[Admin]

Just working through Red Dwarf, got the remaining DVD's at Christmas. Still a bit of a Star Trek fan though, tend to watch 1 or 2 per day.

Many of the BBC & ITV dramas tend to be quite good so have never considered pay TV as there's enough on FreeSat to keep us busy. Have looked at Netflix, but as I don't have a Windows PC in the lounge it doesn't really work out well.

Netflix and a chromecast is all you need and works beautifully. I also cast HBO Go, some good shows on there.

 

[monaghan]

If I'm right, you need to use a PC / tablet / phone to cast to the chromecast or does the chromecast make the connection to Netflix directly and the phone is just the interface?

Can you send audio from the chromecast to an external source?

Does it work through an HDMI switcher? I already have 4 HDMI ports in use.

 

[Edwin]

The Amazon Fire TV stick is cheap and does both Netflix and Amazon streaming, as well as iPlayer etc. Takes up very little space when plugged into a spare HDMI port.

 

[martin-s]

Anything over WiFi sucks if you've got a house with proper walls, unless you want to start installing repeaters everywhere. Wired networks are where it's at!

 

[Edwin]

Anything over WiFi sucks if you've got a house with proper walls, unless you want to start installing repeaters everywhere. Wired networks are where it's at!

That doesn't necessarily have to be the case, depending on the router you choose and its position. But you're right, wifi does tend to attenuate through walls.

One possible solution for a larger property might be to use two separate routers in different parts of the house, linked for instance by a pair of Powerline Ethernet adapters to create a quasi-wired connection between them if an actual wired connection is impractical.

It can work very well... With two routers and separate wifi IDs, we get > 40Mbps internet connectivity in every room, which is way more than necessary for full HD streaming.

 

[martin-s]

We networked the whole house when we had to rewire a couple of years ago. It isn't the speed of wireless that's the problem, it's the reliability of the connection.

 

[Edwin]

Ah, ok - if your internet provider's unreliable then no amount of effort inside the house is likely to fix that.

However, it might be worth seeing if your provider has a more up to date modem available for their customers. I recently got the latest one that Virgin offer and, even though the peak speed of our connection only went up a bit, the stability is massively better than we were seeing from the previous, 6 year old, device.

 

[martin-s]

I decided that it's WiFi in general that's unreliable quite a while ago now. I've spent out on several decent routers, but never found the silver bullet.

 

[Edwin]

The Asus RT-N66U has been really great. Updated to the Merlin firmware, it seems solid as a rock. Of course you can buy other routers further up the family for even greater speed, but I have no problem getting 40-60Mbps out of it over wifi, and 200Mbps+ wired.

If you are confident you know what you're doing (this link is offered with the disclaimer that if it breaks something, you're on your own) then there's custom Merlin firmware for many Asus routers here http://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/download

 

[Helmuts]

reality tv show "Gigolos"

 

[lazarus]

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[monaghan]

I decided that it's WiFi in general that's unreliable quite a while ago now. I've spent out on several decent routers, but never found the silver bullet.

I gave up on the router / wifi and have standalone router (Microtik) and wifi (Ubiquity), this is far more flexible (even if not quite as plug and play as an ISP supplied device). We have so many other wifi devices in our area that overlap that the standard devices just don't seem to cope with all the congestion on the channels from other houses.

I have cat-5 to every room except (kitchen, bathroom and loo) so tend to use this where possible and leave the wifi free for phone / tablet.