usersmanual wrote:
joeburnes wrote:
Need some help that I haven't found in searching the forums.
Right now, in my home, we have a Hopper w/sling and 2 joeys for the bedrooms.
I am away from home a large part of the year traveling/working from my 5er. I tried to use the sling function but it isn't working out as Dish Anywhere has no real way to turn down the quality so you're not burning through a gig an hour or more of data. And, even if they could do so, many times, I'm in areas of poor cell coverage so lack of bandwidth means no tv. Plus, their genius engineers didn't incorporate buffering so if your home upload speed isn't that fast or waivers, you get sketchy playback of any DVR program you're trying to watch.
Keep in mind that I do not want to detach the hopper in my home and just take it with me as some people do. I want a "permanent" setup for my 5er.
SOOO, I basically want to get a dvr receiver for my RV and a dish.
In looking around, I'm getting a bit confused as there are what seems like a hundred different automatic satellite dishes and receivers so I can't figure out what I need.
What I do know is that I want at least 2 "tuners" in the receiver unit so I can watch one thing while recording one other.
I'm not dead set on having to have an "automatic" satellite dish as I've heard there are phone apps that help you line up the dish fairly easily.
So, what would you do if you were in my shoes?
Thanks in advance for your help!
can you or anyone explain what you mean about Dish Anywhere has no real way to turn down the quality so you're not burning through a gig an hour or more of data. And, even if they could do so, many times, I'm in areas of poor cell coverage so lack of bandwidth means no tv. Plus, their genius engineers didn't incorporate buffering so if your home upload speed isn't that fast or waivers, you get sketchy playback of any DVR program you're trying to watch.
what does burning through a gig an hour or poor cell coverage have to do with dishnet sat Tv?
Dish Anywhere is the title of Dish Network's Sling player. Basically, I can go anywhere in the world, use an internet browser and log on to the Dish Anywhere website and watch something I have on my HOME DVR. I could also choose to watch TV through that same internet browser. I can also set my DVR to record a program or not record a program. Basically the concept of "sling tv" is for you to be able to be somewhere other than home and still be able to watch tv and interact with your DVR as you would if you were standing in your living room.
Assuming you have a good internet connection and unlimited data and don't mind watching TV on your laptop (or have a smart TV that can browse the internet), you wouldn't even need a receiver or satellite dish at all when you travel.
THAT was my first solution. But, if there is no internet where you travel, you are sunk. If you don't have enough bandwidth, you are sunk. If your home upwidth (the speed at which your home internet connection uploads data to the internet) isn't very fast, you are sunk....because if your home is uploading at a 1 gig rate, but you are downloading at a 2 gig rate, you won't get the "data" you need to be able to watch your recorded show uninterrupted.
Carrying that a step further, they COULD integrate buffering into their Dish Anywhere player and that would help. Just like if you were using YouTube on a bad internet connection, you would just wait a bit while it "buffers" and THEN watch your program.
Basically, the only way for Dish Anywhere and the whole sling thing to be effective is if you have reliable and high speed UPwidth at your home and you have reliable and high speed downwidth wherever you are located. Now, most of us use our phones for internet data when on the road so the AMOUNT of data used while watching is VERY important. With Youtube, you can "turn down" the video quality by choosing anywhere from 1080P down to like 144. You get to "adjust" the quality of the video to save data if you want. DIsh Anywhere only gives you SD or HD options. I actually used an app on my phone to "see" how much data I was using while watching a one hour program I had on my DVR. I chose SD as that is the lowest quality possible. It used up a full gig with that one hour show. So 10 hours a month of TV while on the road using Dish Anywhere would cost me 10 gigs of data on my phone plan. You can do the math, but I go broke just THINKING about it. lol
So, for ALL of those reasons, for ME, technology is not to the point yet that the Dish Anywhere service would suffice for my needs.
Personally, I feel like as cell data gets cheaper, coverage areas get better, and the technology increases, we will see less and less dishes in campgrounds as more people convert to using sling type services to use the internet to (what amounts to) watch tv like they were on the couch but do so anywhere in the world.
