Fire Stick

[trof]

A bit off subject, but is anyone using Fire Stick?
How do you like it?
I have 10MBPS download speed max.

[tymorial]

1. With that download rate you are going to have buffering problems

That is with no other devices connected to your network. My parents love their fire stick though. I dont know what they have for speeds, probably 100 to 200.

[trof]

3. I was afraid of that. Thanks.

[tymorial]

4. Yeah I am sorry

To give you some perspective, I had 75 download a few years ago and we had phones, tablets, computers and gaming devices connected to the network. We would sometimes experience issues with buffering using amazon, bidu etc

[trof]

5. My Dish bill is $105/mo.

And our phone/isp provider, Centurylink has a landline monopoly in our area.
I could go satellite wifi, but we have so many thunderstorms I'd be losing TV AND internet a lot.

[bettyellen]

2. Have you tried Terrarium? It's supposed to be great.

[liberal N proud]

6. Do you have a cable company in your area?

If you do, you could get Internet service only from them and then do streaming.

[trof]

8. Yes but they suck and no internet yet.

Local op. Riviera cable.
Small town in coastal Alabama.
(Where else?)

[JDC]

7. I tried it for a month. I got rid of it due to streaming problems.

DirecTv Now gives you a free Apple TV 4k with 3 mos off prepaid service. No contract.

It works unbelievably well IMO. I dont love the remote, so instead I use my iPhone and the remote app.

Dtv uses a lot of data though.

[flamin lib]

9. I had 10 mbps since 2016 and Roku had no buffering issues.

Neither did the Google chromecast device. I did have a lot of buffering streaming directly from a computer (livenewson.com for msnbc live).

Just moved to Spectrum (formerly Time Warner) and have 200 mbps for same cost. No issues w customer service either.

I guess the streaming devices buffer enough to fill in the gaps.

Eta
Hang in there 5g wireless should be available in the next year.

[trof]

10. Thanks. I'll check out roku.

[trof]

12. FYI: I got ROKU about a year ago. Love it.

Have it on 3 TV sets and it works fine.
I'm also paying $49/MO. for YOUTUBE TV.