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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Freesat and Broadband
Hi All,
Some help please. I am considering getting either Freesat or Freeview and will need to use the catch up/ on demand services. Where I live in Hereford my max broadband speed it 2.4 meg, question will this be adequate for the downloads? If I record a series will the playback be jerky or smooth? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks |
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I should be, although downloading programmes will take longer.
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Hi All,
Some help please. I am considering getting either Freesat or Freeview and will need to use the catch up/ on demand services. Where I live in Hereford my max broadband speed it 2.4 meg, question will this be adequate for the downloads? If I record a series will the playback be jerky or smooth? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Anything recorded to disk from broadcast tv will just play as normal regardless of internet speed. |
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I should be, although downloading programmes will take longer.
In my experience, both personally (and with dozens of complaining customers), you struggle with such a slow connection - with constant freezing, and waiting for the next section to download. Incidentally, Netflix seems to work far better than other services with cripplingly low speeds - iPlayer seems one of the worst. While the BBC claim you only need 2Mbps, that's not at all true in my experience. |
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I get 3Mbps on a good day and 2 on a bad day.
I have no problem streaming iPlayer and ITV Player on freesat, well none related to internet speed. The quality of ITV player is quite poor though. Also no problem with Lovefilm, Crackle, 4OD etc but that is not through freesat. I guess I must be lucky compared to the customers Nigel talks to. |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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My broadband speed is only 2Mbps but I have no problems with BBC iplayer and ITV player on my Humax Freesat receiver
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