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melissahowk
New Poster
6 years ago

DISH & HBO.. still **bleep** fighting. Will a streaming device help reduce buffering on HBO GO

Hi, Ive been down the Google rabbithole many times with the constant buffering issue that's been a problem since day 1 with Hughes net. It's now a big issue for me as Dish and HBO don't seem to want t...
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MarkJFine
Professor
6 years ago

A few things:

1. Satellite internet is not really made for streaming TV online. The inherent latency causes problems with some video servers.

2. Standard definition programming or less might be ok, but it only gets worse with higher resolution programs that require a faster ping rate than satellite can provide.

3. A one-hour HD program is about 3-5GB and will eat your plan data like there's no tomorrow.

4. Putting your satellite TV box on the internet will also eat a lot of data as it defaults to that for many of the functions, like guide data, etc.