Random Irritations

[USER1999]

I have a holiday flat, which cannot have a dish, and when I am down there I am paying for Sky at home, that I can only watch on a tablet or laptop, while sat 12 feet away from a perfectly good 55 inch tv.

 

[PJ87]

I want to cast Sky Go to my telly from my tablet, Not allowed. I want to run Sky Go on my pc, and put it through my telly. It either refreshes at 29hz, or I have to reduce the pixels to really low levels. Either way, the quality is rubbish.

Buy a cheap PS3 second hand or an xbox

You can use them for multi room

 

[USER1999]

Just googled it. It looks like you need Sky Go extra at another 5 a month? Looks like it could work though.
Got to admit I know nothing about PS.

 

[Orikoru]

I want to cast Sky Go to my telly from my tablet, Not allowed. I want to run Sky Go on my pc, and put it through my telly. It either refreshes at 29hz, or I have to reduce the pixels to really low levels. Either way, the quality is rubbish.

Same, it's to stop people like me who bum Sky off their dad's Sky Go account. I HDMI it from the laptop to the telly, and I can watch it fine but every 5 or 10 mins it'll go super blurry for 30 seconds before coming back.

 

[Orikoru]

Public transport, again. Northern Line completely dead. Couldn't get on Met Line either. Buses all jam packed and not letting us on. Upshot is I have just done a half hour walk from King's Cross to Old Street to get to work.

 

[PJ87]

Just googled it. It looks like you need Sky Go extra at another 5 a month? Looks like it could work though.
Got to admit I know nothing about PS.

Simple enough to use

Install the skygo app on it and boot up

Easy enough to set up

Same, it's to stop people like me who bum Sky off their dad's Sky Go account. I HDMI it from the laptop to the telly, and I can watch it fine but every 5 or 10 mins it'll go super blurry for 30 seconds before coming back.

That’s an issue with your internet then

I watch entire films and football games on sky go via Xbox or pc no buffering or blur

 

[PJ87]

Public transport, again. Northern Line completely dead. Couldn't get on Met Line either. Buses all jam packed and not letting us on. Upshot is I have just done a half hour walk from King's Cross to Old Street to get to work.

I woke up this morning to the news. Thank god I didn’t have child care today and swapped shifts with someone

Complete power failure to the control room

We have not 1 but 2 unbreakable (lol) electrical feeds and a back up diesel generator

Basically the power is never suppose to fail

Well all 3 have!

 

[Orikoru]

That’s an issue with your internet then

I watch entire films and football games on sky go via Xbox or pc no buffering or blur

I don't think it is - we recently upgraded to supposedly up to 70mb broadband. I've only run it by wifi though to be fair, next time I'm watching the footy I might actually get the network cable out and see if it's better that way.

 

[PJ87]

I don't think it is - we recently upgraded to supposedly up to 70mb broadband. I've only run it by wifi though to be fair, next time I'm watching the footy I might actually get the network cable out and see if it's better that way.

Mines hard wired which I believe does help

Only have 55mb speed

 

[Orikoru]

Mines hard wired which I believe does help

Only have 55mb speed

I'll definitely try it. Despite the supposed 70mb connection, I don't think the speed ever gets much above 30mb via wifi.

 

[PJ87]

I'll definitely try it. Despite the supposed 70mb connection, I don't think the speed ever gets much above 30mb via wifi.

That doesn’t sound right, you should be able to get full speeds via the wireless . Have you tried switching the WiFi channels?

 

[Orikoru]

That doesn’t sound right, you should be able to get full speeds via the wireless . Have you tried switching the WiFi channels?

Don't know what that means. I thought Wifi was always slower than hardwiring. I just checked the speedtests I did on my phone, I actually got 35 to 39mb download, and that was standing about 6 to 8 feet away from the router. I should actually do a hardwired speedtest, haven't done that since they upgraded us.

 

[USER1999]

So how do I put the app on it? Do I need to use the games handset? I know zip about this, exept I can buy a refurbed PS3 off ebay for 44 quid.

 

[Rooter]

Just googled it. It looks like you need Sky Go extra at another 5 a month? Looks like it could work though.
Got to admit I know nothing about PS.

I have it, and it works fine when connected via a HDMI cable. We went on holiday and i used my laptop to keep the kids happy connected to the villa TV, picture quality was great. No idea on quality when casting though. Why don't you get a small pc or mac mini type device for it if its going to get a decent amount of use and have it as a permanent solution?

 

[PJ87]

Don't know what that means. I thought Wifi was always slower than hardwiring. I just checked the speedtests I did on my phone, I actually got 35 to 39mb download, and that was standing about 6 to 8 feet away from the router. I should actually do a hardwired speedtest, haven't done that since they upgraded us.

It shouldn’t be that much different that’s appalling

Now I just did a wireless speed check to my phone , right now me and my daughter are watching the lion kill on sky go so streaming that whilst doing the check

My phone got 48.1mbps with 8 mbps upload speed and a ping of 7 (lower the better)

My net speed is up to 55mbps so that’s within 7 on wireless

At 70 mbps or whatever you said your paying for I’d expect 60mbps plus or not more from the wireless

Maybe you channel needs changing. Sometimes can slow your speed. In router settings you need to change the channel it sends it over to another one.

My wired speed is 56mbps and upload 9mbps

 

[PJ87]

So how do I put the app on it? Do I need to use the games handset? I know zip about this, exept I can buy a refurbed PS3 off ebay for 44 quid.

That’s not a bad price at all

Will need to download the app from the PlayStation store , set up an account etc

You can use the game remote but PS3 you can get a dvd remote for which we used when I had one

 

[USER1999]

I have it, and it works fine when connected via a HDMI cable. We went on holiday and i used my laptop to keep the kids happy connected to the villa TV, picture quality was great. No idea on quality when casting though. Why don't you get a small pc or mac mini type device for it if its going to get a decent amount of use and have it as a permanent solution?

My laptop only gives me 29hz hdmi, which is rubbish. At less than 50, the PS sounds a good option, and I can leave it down there.

 

[USER1999]

Have just ordered a ps3, and a remote for it. Worth a try.

 

[PJ87]

Have just ordered a ps3, and a remote for it. Worth a try.

Shouldn’t prove too difficult to do, once set up it’s really simple to use

I was just using my Xbox to do the same thing watching sky movies with my daughter

 

[USER1999]

Shouldn’t prove too difficult to do, once set up it’s really simple to use

I was just using my Xbox to do the same thing watching sky movies with my daughter

Thanks for the advise.