And this is what those 44,000 are doing to me. :(
Granted, I'm still able to browse and Facebook without issue.
GabeU wrote:And this is what those 44,000 are doing to me. :(
Granted, I'm still able to browse and Facebook without issue.
Things are actually getting better for me on ES 17 Gen 4 since people are bailing to Gen 5 ES 19. Things still get bad on weekends and holidays or big sports nights.
BirdDog,
That kinda makes me wish I would have stuck with what I had. SMH.
My folks, who live right across the street, still have Gen4, though I don't know what their speeds are. Probably pretty good.
With that said, it's going back up now. Sub 1Mbps speeds for me are VERY rare. I've only ever had four sub 1Mbps speed since upgrading to Gen5 at the end of March. That one was 3rd from the bottom.
And though I don't know about doing so while having the speed I just did, even when it's in the lower, single digit Mbps range I can still normally watch Youtube vids in 480p without issue.
"That kinda makes me wish I would have stuck with what I had. SMH. "
I'm having lots of issues with speed, but I'm still happy to have gone to Gen 5. I keep a positive (naive???) outlook: it'll grow out of its growing pains and it'll be just fine.
Thing is, things like web browsing, email, etc. are bursty in nature. Bursts you can at least handle from more sources because they can be interspersed over time.
In contrast, streaming with any kind of high resolution is a fairly constant demand of resources over the course of the program, making it have more of an impact. Lower resolutions you at least have a chance to handle bursts that can be buffered to last for a period of time.
I just don't understand streaming HD on capped data. Especially the low satellite data caps. Have been accused of being too logical by the other half.
Honestly fine with lower definition. Maybe my TV interpolates better than others but it looks fine at lower def without HD. I'm talking a 55" TV. Then again it seems us older folks have lower standards when it comes to video quality.
Things change but satellite is still not at total cord cutter level.
I'm a little more pragmatic than that. If a video eats half a GB to watch, I see that as being better used for something more tangible and reusable, like software downloads/updates.
Occasionally (once, maybe twice a week as you say - more like once a month in my case if that) that's fine, but as a regular daily habit for hours per day... that's an instant budget buster in my mind, even in 320p.
What does my head in is people thinking that just because I run out of 'high speed data', I can continue that kind behavior as if nothing's changed and complain when it doesn't work. But, they do kind of market it in such a way to imply that's possible.
