Wifi connection for TV

valhalla360 wrote:

dieseltruckdriver wrote:

MKirkland wrote:
Looking for something else that I might have missed for getting TV reception. I have a tailgater by Dish but may be dropping their service at home. Which means I will also lose the tailgater satellite. I'm told a hotspot wont support tv use. My cell phone service doesn't have the stand alone jetpack. Is there something else I can use, especially where a campground doesn't have wifi?

We use an ATT mobile hotspot and a Google Chromecast very often, I wonder why someone told you it wouldn't work.

My wife and I still work and can get called to fix problems evenings and weekends. We either have dependable internet or we have to drive to work, so we also have a Visible phone that we can just use the phones built in hotspot. That also works fine for streaming to our tv.

Depends on your definition of works:
- If you are using a site like youtube which adapts to the available speed, you cell hot spot will generally work fine (presuming you have a good cell signal).
- If you are trying to run 4k video, at best, it will eat up a lot of time buffering and it may time out.

As long as you are reasonable in your expectations, a hot spot works well.

We usually watch Netflix and Vudu at 1080 with no buffering. We have each had Zoom or Teams meetings at the same time with no issues also. When we are fishing, we don't have a great signal, hopefully 3 bars, but we have had no issues.