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Finally got Gen5
You are going to like it, that's for sure. It's quite an improvement. The streaming, especially, and the "Video Data Saver" is a great addition.
GabeU wrote:You are going to like it, that's for sure. It's quite an improvement. The streaming, especially, and the "Video Data Saver" is a great addition.
OK, this is killling me. Still Gen4 here but with some digging I can get to the video saver option. So, does it work or not on Gen4? If no then why can I even access it?
BTW, I continue to be able to stream Netflix video fine. Maybe being on Ultra plan helps but my speed at night sometimes drops way down and can still stream. I do have Netflix set to lowest definition.
That's interesting that it's there for you with Gen4. You can probably see if it's working by going to Youtube and watching some newer music videos. Mine all default to 480P.
With that said, when I had Gen4, even during the day or late at night when I had great speed, I still sometimes had buffering problems. Trying to watch a video during the evening was a real pain, having it buffer every five seconds or so. It was terrible. Perhaps my beam or gateway was much more loaded than yours, even if the decent off peak speed didn't necessarily reflect that. My speed tests, even when I was hitting 30Mbps, showed considerable congestion, reflected in the graph of the test. It looked like the Rocky Mountains. Now it looks like a nice, smooth horizon. The smoother, the better, when it comes to streaming.
Yea, mine usually defaults to 480 and lower. I freak when even 480, as 360 looks fine to me. And my stream is generally steady although the server can also send a video stream in chunks and it will be up and down. Like I said, even when my speed is sub 1 Mbps I still can stream Netflix. Maybe does have to do with beam loading but does seem strange. Maybe I'm special. :smileyhappy:
And I have had some very low nighttime speeds also.
