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Playon having issues with slow download speed?
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 solut...
I have it on the PC and there is no cloud app for PC. When did you try it and what was so awful about it?
OK, so you have PlayOn Desktop. I had it a couple of years ago and I had two main issues: Recording AND downloading both use data (so your data gets used up very fast), and downloading was very spotty and often gave me errors, so I had to keep trying to restart the download.
I ditched the desktop app and went with PlayOn Cloud. It uses no data at all to record, and I have very few issues with downloads.
Things may have changed...my video folder for Playon was created 1/2/21 and contains 53Gb of video downloaded. My HNS account has 35.2 Gb used from my Bonus Zone date allotment...I still have 14.8Gb to go and my period ends in 2 days.
The only issue we have with it (so far) is with Amazon Prime and the HNS buffering. Playon is looking into it.
"Things may have changed"
Totally possible. I hope the PlayOn techs have an answer for you soon!
oh, I think I found that the older version of Playon may have had you watching the channel while recording...was that the case?
Now that doesn't happen unless you have visible.mnt in the Playon folder...they use this for troubleshooting.
No, I didn't have to be watching it to record it. I could schedule it, and it would record, but using my own data. To download, it would once again use data.
