kevinzak76
join:2001-03-30
Buffalo, NY
| reply to gigahurtz
Re: You can't blame AT&T..
said by gigahurtz  :said by proefain :The Slingbox app optimizes itself depending on your network speeds. It will play just fine on "not really 3G" speeds. While it may "optimize" it self, is it really going to be watchable? (I'm asking because I haven't really used the Slingbox extensively). yes, it is excellent quality. i can even read the "bottom line" on ESPN where it shows the scores and other news. there is virtually zero buffering, aside from the initial startup and a slight lag when you are sending commands to the cable box.
the first month i had the app for my Bold i pretty much used it an hour a day 5 days a week for a month and only used about 700MB of data i believe. (maybe 10% of the time i was on wifi. if that is correct, then to hit your 5GB, you would pretty much need to watch over 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, assuming you used almost no wifi.
seeing that you can only have 1 client connected to a slingbox at a time, i cant see this app as having THAT much of an impact on the network, as i doubt EVERY slingbox owner in an area will be watching tv on their AT&T handset at the same time all the time.
the slingplayer is really for those times when you are waiting for a flight, riding the subway, want to catch your home team play a big game while you are out of town, etc. those things happen in bits and pieces, not every day for extended periods of time.
i just hope AT&T tested the player on the network to see the impact for real and are not just knee-jerking assuming that this would kill the network because they saw the word "streaming" |
