I have tried to find a solution to actually be able to use our HNS service for something other than just emial and very light browzing (no videos). It was suggested here that Playon could be a solution - to download during the early morning so as to have better performance due to less traffic and to not affect our daytime data cap. I am now working with Playon Tech Support (who have been great) to understand why that is hit and miss. We are able to download maybe one or two shows and then due to stalls and buffering the recording stops. This happens to at least 50 percent of the attempts. Sometimes we have to try several days to download a single one hour show. Meanwhile, each attempt takes away data from our allotment. This is all being done after 2am and before 8am. Ugh. Anyone here have any advise or experience with this? Thanks

spydermike You may want to look into running an Android emulator on your PC so that you could use the PlayOn Cloud app.

spydermike wrote:Thanks. The closest cell signal is 7 mile away, so anything cellular won't work. So from cloud to android phone, phone to PC, then PC to USB stick then USB stick to TV. Hmmm. Or use my cell phone as a USB stick. Hmmm... The cell phone would simply be used for the app, and you could use your HughesNet WiFi for the connection, so you wouldn't need to connect to your actual cell service to use it. You'd set up the recordings with the phone. If you download item(s) automatically or by schedule, then yes, they would need to go directly to the phone, and then you would have to transfer them off of the phone to use them, unless you wanted to watch them on the phone (not likely). If you want to manually download the item(s), you can do so via the link they send to your email, and with your computer. Downloading them manually is what I normally do, but I tend to up later than most people so I can do so during the Bonus Zone. Granted, it is a bit of a convoluted way, especially if you download the items directly to the phone, but in the end you'll have them without any of the buffering and no wasted data. I just downloaded two more movies from PlayOn Cloud last night. :) I bought a bunch of credits during a couple of really good sales a while back and still have 286 left. They were about 10 cents per at the time. They sometimes have really good sales on them.

No worries. I am not ruling out that the issue with downloading to the phone is mine to resolve lcoally...I am looking to Playon support for some insight, but they haven't been responsive lately. I need to investigate further on my end. I am trying other shows/episodes tonight and each night until...I come to a conclusion. I really think Playon seems like a viable soution for buffer free streaming if I can get it to reliably download during Bonus Zone. It makes up for one of the biggest deficiencies of our internet service provider. It is a shame that they can't help out with work arounds like this.

This worked for me last night. All four episodes downloaded. Each episode is about an hour in SD downloaded in 3-4 minutes each. I have two longer movies scheduled for tonight.

When you say "We are able to download maybe one or two shows and then due to stalls and buffering the recording stops" you mean that the downloading stops, right? Recording happens in the cloud, bypassing your system completely. POC is sensitive to congestion, so if there is congestion at the time when you try to download, the downloads will slow down or will stop. Unfortunately congestion can pop up at any time.

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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
4 years ago
When you say "We are able to download maybe one or two shows and then due to stalls and buffering the recording stops" you mean that the downloading stops, right? Recording happens in the cloud, bypassing your system completely.

POC is sensitive to congestion, so if there is congestion at the time when you try to download, the downloads will slow down or will stop. Unfortunately congestion can pop up at any time.
- spydermike
  Sophomore
  4 years ago
  Hi maratsade, what I mean is that if I queue three 1 hour shows to record between 2:15am and 7:55am, the forst two shows record fine but the third records only 2 minute of frozen frame and then stops. I get a message that my video has recorded.
  
  Playon is researching this. The same effect happens during peak times like right now when I just tried it for them.
  
  I am not usingPOC. I have the app on a dedicated Win10 Laptop.
  - maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV
    4 years ago
    Gotcha.
    So you have PlayOn Desktop, or do they make a PlayOn Cloud app for PC? I used to have the PlayOn Desktop app and it was awful.
- spydermike
  Sophomore
  4 years ago
  I then tried to just queue the one show for the next night, and same thing again, then again the next night.
BobNBend
Spectator
3 years ago
See my post on PlayOn home made today. I did not find this thread before posting it, but the observations there may be of interest.
RFB
maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
3 years ago
BobNBend , the OP is using PlayOn Cloud, not PlayOn Home.
spydermike
Sophomore
3 years ago
Just got Starlink...initial test show min 120 to 220Mbps down, 18Mbps up and 18ms latency. My need for Playon as a crutch is over.
- MarkJFine
  Professor
  3 years ago
  Thought half their constellation burned up in the last solar flare. Interesting.
spydermike
Sophomore
3 years ago
Not even close...about 2000 satellites up there now I think. I think you are referring to a single launch of about 50 satellites that went up when the flare hit and some /most of those were affected before they were positioned. The service is working fine as far as we can tell. We are getting over 100 times better speed not to mention the much improved latency. The way it should be.

Oh, and I installed the system in about 10 minutes as the antenna assembly self aligns.
- MarkJFine
  Professor
  3 years ago
  Knew the dish 'electronically steered' itself. I would think it almost had to given the elliptical orbit.

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