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Why do you need HD for a news channel? Particularly this channel where they hire journalist to present the news and not ex beauty queens and good looking jocks.

VPN To use a VPN you have to sign up and establish an account with a VPN provider. I use StrongVPN and highly recommend them. I have used HMA and don't recommend them. They have servers in a number of different cities in nineteen countries worldwide. I pay $85 per year for an OpenVPN...

To get around this he will need to run a VPN on his PC. He will need to connect using a VPN server on the west coast. Using a VPN given the distance and processor overhead will speed by 10 - 40%. Speed loss will be even worse if he tries to run VPN on router.

Sounds like your son is being geo blocked.

But with a cable subscription you have the opportunity to save some money if you furnish your own equipment. You can use a cable card in a smart TV or even buy a Tivo Premiere for as little as $99 if you want a DVR or whole house DVR set up. You will have to pay either the lifetime or...

US Virgin Islands While our channel line up is similar to Puerto Rico it is not the same: 10 WVXF 14 WVGN (Note in you listing you show Charlotte Amalie as being PR it actually in St Thomas - VI ) 17 WSJP 18 WSEEP 20 WPRU 24 WSJX 60 PBS This is the entire local line up we receive...

Just another couple of pieces of electrical trivia. Most everyone knows that AC power fluctuates over the sine wave. The volts you see on your meter is a derived number supposed to be equivalent of 120 volts DC. In fact it is approximately 170 volts at the peak. Most surge protectors don't...

The above gadgets are good and if you see problems you still may want to use a multimeter. When you test the voltage hot to neutral then hot to ground you want the readings to be approximately equal. If you have metallic conduits, which were used to provide the ground, then over time rust...

If you most always are watching recorded shows then you are not using tuners. You could be watching two or three pre recorded shows and still have three tuners available for recording additional programming.

Probably that is as fast that they are going to send it to you. Anything above 5 Mbps should give you good to excellent HD pictures as long as the connection is steady and the latency doesn't vary significantly. If they sent you the video at 50 Mbps they would not have the bandwidth to serve...

No problems recently with either of my 211s which both have EHD.

To determine if the EHD is causing the problem unplug the 211, disconnect the USB cable to the EHD and power down the EHD. Plug in the receiver and it will convert itself back to being just a plain 211. Use it for a day or two. If no problems then you know it is the EHD. If you still have...

Last fall when I was in Chicago Comcast has thousands of shows available in the VOD library including broadcast network shows. What they had to do with the contents owner/ programmer is negotiate for the rights (pay money ) so that a show or series would be available as VOD. Much of the...

I don't know if Dish has the capabilities or wants the capabilities but it is possible. Reading what the NSA and Chinese have been doing there are some powerful exploits available to gather information. In the case of Aereo when I clicked on the button to sign up for a free trial of their...

If your network has WiFi capabilities either as part of the router or as a wireless AP connected to your network, or perhaps just a device connected to your network such as a smartphone with WiFi capabilities, all someone has to do is force your wireless radio(s) do do a scan and listen for...

You don't necessarily need GPS in a device to determine its location. If a device has WiFi or is connected to a network that has WiFi its location can be determined within a few hundred feet by scanning what WiFi network SSIDs are nearby. (Thank you Google, NSA, et al.) Aereo uses this WiFi...

Most homeowner policies include coverage for property owned by others. If you rent a rug shampooer and it was stolen or burned up in a fire your insurance would cover it. There are usually limits on the coverage so don't borrow a Rembrandt from the local museum without checking your...

Cut a piece of plywood long enough to span the two studs. Since it is above fireplace you might want to go entire width of wall so it looks OK. Plywood needs to be a few inches wider than mount. Bevel cut and sand edges of plywood so it doesn't just look like a hunk of wood you stuck on the...

If you decide to go with a 211 and convert it into a DVR, remember to amortize the cost of the hardrive. On one of my 211s I am still using the original drive I purchased. On my other 211 I am on my third hard drive. One drive was replaced under warranty the other replacement I had to buy...

I pay $99 a month. No data caps. Even using a VPN I can easily stream Amazon, BBC, etc.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2750586927.png Occasionally we get things first in the USVI. The above is our new speed. Just cam on line a couple weeks ago on St. Croix and rolled out on St. Thomas this weekend. Don't give up hope.

Perhaps I missed something, but why don't you buy the video cable for your Ipad? Plug it into the Ipad and run an HDMI cable to an input on your TV. I have used this setup to watch my stand alone SlingBox, Netflix, USTVNow. Ipad has plenty of processing power and built in 3G and WiFi. Your...

How far west are you? In PR and USVI. (-64.5). we use a single 30" Dish and get all our channels from 110 & 119 including locals in HD. I don't have a Hopper, but I believe that people who do have PTAT and auto skipping. I'm not sure if you could get PTAT working with your setup.

While Ethernet is always best you might try Ethernet over power line adapters. They are plug and play. Both my Dish receivers are networked using them and my Slingbox is connected to my router with an adapter. I am using old 85 Mbps adapters and depending where the adapter is located I get a...

I am using a stand alone Slingbox connected to my 211. When I start up the Slingplayer application it does use the Internet to connect to Sling to find my Slingbox on the WWW AND check if my Slingbox is connected to another PC, smartphone, tablet etc. If the Slingbox is connected to...