| anyone heard of orb? :) why would anyone even buy a slingbox? I mean come on now, orb is free and you can watch tv from any broadband connected computer. Even my small amount of upload at home (hint hint road runner give me more) is fine for streaming tv, granted I'd love to be able to use my fiber connection at work to its fullest, but i'll settle for a little buffer time! 
orb + free = best deal plus with orb you would be technically browsing the web and they wouldn't be able to ban or kick you off their network then would then?  |
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| said by bwalker256:orb + free = best deal plus with orb you would be technically browsing the web and they wouldn't be able to ban or kick you off their network then would then? Umm, yes, they can and will kick you off if you browse too much and orb would equal streaming content just like slingbox. |
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said by bwalker256:why would anyone even buy a slingbox? I mean come on now, orb is free and you can watch tv from any broadband connected computer. Even my small amount of upload at home (hint hint road runner give me more) is fine for streaming tv, granted I'd love to be able to use my fiber connection at work to its fullest, but i'll settle for a little buffer time! orb + free = best deal plus with orb you would be technically browsing the web and they wouldn't be able to ban or kick you off their network then would then? I use Orb. I love it. I used it to stream my music collections to my work computer. Plus, I can stream to my cell phone. I don't have a TV card yet, so I haven't tried that out, but I do want one in the near future. The also nice thing about Orb is that you can preset the amount of bandwidth to receive. So even though you might have a faster connection, you can downgrade it a little so as not to overload the network. |
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said by bwalker256:orb + free = best deal plus with orb you would be technically browsing the web and they wouldn't be able to ban or kick you off their network then would then? it's free, assuming you have a TV tuner card that supports Orb.
Orb is not technically browsing the web. |
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You can pre-set the ammount of bandwidth used in the Slingbox also. Not just for video, but for audio also.
Can turn the audio qual down to get better video qual.
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