Kicking Cable to the Curb
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Sorry Cathy, but fer sum reason my tickle bone just got heavily plucked... <snicker, giggle, guffaw>
'Moderate' seems to have been vaporized from our lexicon!
BTW, probably not relevant here, but at one time in my younger 'dreams' I considered being be a meteorologist. Hell, at least in dat career, I wouldn't have to even reach da 'Mendoza line' to earn a subsistent income!
BOT, gonna try sumpin' like one of THESE. No interest in a remote locator; won't be utilized. Almost all of my OTA stations are within a 5° cone. Besides, most of da coax cabling required is already in place.
Will Lodi load onto a Chromebook? Looking into putting a little more memory into my old win7 PC and changing it over into that . Or a dual boot so I can use both. Kodi might run better on a CB?
@Iffy, a weather person - about the only job you can have, be wrong 95% of the time, and still keep your job! 
Nah she just sounded like you having a smart tv and wanted to know about the SS box and if it is worth it. Of course on that site everyone is prejudiced but most are like me and have never tried anything else. Just curious.[/QUOTE]You mean the SS Facebook? Wasn't me...
why? Was there bad language and snarkiness and dumb questions?
Well...I'm on it now!!!
Just joined last night...
That's my middle name which I've been called all my life....well...besides a few,umm, others.....
For it to be effective, it would have to be on all day and not time out.
less expensive to just get a $30 router like this
Amazon.com: TP-Link N450 Wireless Wi-Fi Router, Up to 450Mbps (TL-WR940N): Electronics
Presume you're talking about:
Which is the same type of antenna I was talking about a page ago. To get 150 miles you have to be on top of a mountain or something. I'm getting 50 miles at up to 98% signal strength but when I try to get stations to the north at 60 miles or more I can't find anything. (Remember with digital you must first run channel scan; if your tuner provides "easy add" you can run a scan at a different antenna position or some tuners (Panasonic) will let you enter the physical channel in and if it finds anything it will add that to the channel list.)
I'm guessing Iffy's "remote locator" he's talking about the rotor, as it's unreliable on these that's good to not need it but it will still help get it in first adjustment and small changes can help with distant stations (although it also sometimes works turned around a weird angle or backwards too). The remote has 2 buttons to turn it either way, but the control box only has one! Is the random direction a bug or a feature?
This is actually completely unnecessary with modern routers. I do use killer doubleshot on my htpc, but only bc I also use that for steam.
If you have a decent router, WiFi should be fast enough on 5ghz for any device. It's not like you're gaming, you're just streaming TV, so ping doesn't matter, I use a netgear Nighthawk as my main router and an Asus tri-band w/ open vpn for our Nvidia shields and other stuff.
Tbh I've even tried an experiment w/ playing overwatch on my htpc both ways and I can't physically notice any difference.
Hi Pat,
5ghz is the frequency of the WIFI radio transmission, not the speed of the connection.
Today's WIFI routers, and/or modems with WIFI built-in, transmit at the 'older' freq. of 2.4ghz, as well as 5ghz.
The lower freqs got kinda crowded (microwaves, baby monitors and stuff interfere with wifi signal), plus the latest WIFI spec, 802.11ac, is faster (more efficient) and operates on 5ghz.
if my modem is
if my modem is 2.4 only, does it benefit me to add a 5g router like the one Kent posted?
Hi Pat,
5ghz is the frequency of the WIFI radio transmission, not the speed of the connection.
Today's WIFI routers, and/or modems with WIFI built-in, transmit at the 'older' freq. of 2.4ghz, as well as 5ghz.
The lower freqs got kinda crowded (microwaves, baby monitors and stuff interfere with wifi signal), plus the latest WIFI spec, 802.11ac, is faster (more efficient) and operates on 5ghz.
if my modem is 2.4 only, does it benefit me to add a 5g router like the one Kent posted?
I'm learning lots here. THANKS!!!
Comic relief:
.....needed to put some batteries in so I can get CBS!!
Comic relief:
.....needed to put some batteries in so I can get CBS!!
Aha learn something everyday.Hi Pat,
5ghz is the frequency of the WIFI radio transmission, not the speed of the connection.
Today's WIFI routers, and/or modems with WIFI built-in, transmit at the 'older' freq. of 2.4ghz, as well as 5ghz.
The lower freqs got kinda crowded (microwaves, baby monitors and stuff interfere with wifi signal), plus the latest WIFI spec, 802.11ac, is faster (more efficient) and operates on 5ghz.
Probably only if you have several devices using it at the same time. Older laptops/tablets may not support 5Gig, but most of the routers will do both, and slow down for the slowest device attached. So if you already have a system up and running well, likely no significant difference. If you're needing to get a router, a dual band one would be the way to go.
Only the very old network cards use 2.4, they started switching to 5 in 2011. and all of the popular kodi boxes like Nvidia shield for example, will have it as well.
There are some raspberry pi boxes that still have 2.4 but there's too many of them for me to remember one from the other.
There are some raspberry pi boxes that still have 2.4 but there's too many of them for me to remember one from the other.
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