Amazon Fire TV?

Just something else to suck up all the bandwidth in a park so most people cannot even check their mail. Very bad manners to stream movies and videos unless you have your own personal wifi

Jim Cindy wrote:
Just something else to suck up all the bandwidth in a park so most people cannot even check their mail. Very bad manners to stream movies and videos unless you have your own personal wifi

X2----------------I couldn't have said it better myself.

X3

The ISP providers are going to have to address the bandwidth issue soon. Streaming services are just getting more and more popular as people are getting fed up with high priced bundled TV packages and going to streaming as an alternate.

LOL! Don't start that in here! Everyone will tell you it's impossible, expensive, unnecessary, etc., etc., etc..... Campers tend to be behind the technology curve, in general I guess..... Other threads on this have been contentious to say the least.

Iraqvet05 wrote:
The ISP providers are going to have to address the bandwidth issue soon. Streaming services are just getting more and more popular as people are getting fed up with high priced bundled TV packages and going to streaming as an alternate.

My guess is that its no better or worse than a Roku or Google Chromecast. The trouble is that despite the advertising, there is really a limited amount of popular shows and movies that the content owners allow to be streamed though a service that changes a monthly service fee. To get the "good stuff" you either have to rent the physical media or pay a per use fee.

Iraqvet05 wrote:
The ISP providers are going to have to address the bandwidth issue soon...

They have addressed the issue. Where the infrastructure exists (metro areas), it's readily available at decent prices. Where the infrastructure does not exist (forests, backcountry, way out of town), you get charged an arm and a leg.

retracted

Any good park owner will throttle bandwidth for any connection that uses greater than X amount.

I'm wondering why these companies are bringing out all these Internet access devices. They are for TVs that don't have internet access built in. Don't most TVs that are sold today have this already? It seems to me these devices will be useless as people buy new TVs. So it seems a loosing market down the road. What am I not seeing.