Pretty Bored ???I'm wondering why there is 1 Dish forum while DTV has 4? Is DTV that bad it needs 4 forums to discuss all the problems? Well to be fair I should call it 3 forums since the "Cutting Edge" forum is deader than a doornail, zero posts for a year and a half. No cutting edge I guess? Might be time to stick a fork in it.
The IPTV area has seen posts, sometimes multiples, by 5 different members, not including myself, in the last two days.
High speed broadband is nice, but not necessary for adequate streaming. We're currently at a somewhat remote NY state park in NY's Southern Tier. We've been streaming continuously since about 7:30 this morning (rainy day). So far, we've had just a few seconds of buffering during a commercial. Here's our current speed test results:
Rural customers in a lot of areas can get decent internet. My dad's lake house is 20 miles from town and a year or so ago the cable company ran fibre on the road we are on. It's a podunk company (SCI Broadband) but has up to 1GB options.
I understand. However here in New Mexico there are many areas that are "underserved" though. Even some of the popular vacation spots around here lack cell phone coverage much less high speed internet. Or internet in general. Even crappy DSL would be an upgrade.
Im not saying that everyone is covered. It's a lot better than say 5 years ago with much better options that have no limit of how much you use and have faster speeds.
I understand but... Again, it depends on where you are located. Some areas are no better now than at the dawn of the internet in the 90's. Native American communities/reservations in the southwest US for example. Although promised for decades they have little or nothing to show for it. Unless now they can afford Starlink or similar, which many cannot. DTV or Dish Network is often the only connection to civilization. That and AM radio which is also under attack.
