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i have a three contract £15 a month for 3gig,and have watched hours and hours of zattoo in the same month even gone out and left it on for hours and never paid more than £15 a month.
are you sure you are right.
I can't say for sure that I'm correct, no, because there are two points of doubt
1) Whether Zattoo is sending some kind of compressed feed (haven't used it so don't know)
2) Whether on iPlayer when streaming, a more compressed file is used versus when you download it then view...I haven't tested.
However....and I stress I don't watch this rubbish...picking Eastenders at random, if you look at the iPlayer site, you'll see the download is 321Mb.
On point (2), though, PCPro suggests that iPlayer actually throttles the streaming according to the bandwidth of your connection and even whether you've got the window maximised on your PC. They say the most basic is 500kbit/s. If my maths is correct, that equates to 225Mbytes per hour (or on my Voda 1G package, £3.40/hr).
I'm sure you're right, Paul. Any video coming over the internet will already be highly compressed and 300MB per half hour seems a reasonable ballpark figure. It's simply not economical via mobile internet for several hours viewing per week, compared with the free 'bandwidth' available via terrestrial TV (ignoring equipment costs and TV licence).
I dont know if it might end up being completely frustrating using a mobile dongle to try and stream TV not to mention expensive. In one month away over Christmas I toured all over the south of England and got a 3G signal twice on my vodafone dongle. Its rubbish. It used to be good a few years ago but I think because all the phones are now online there isnt enough bandwith as even when you do get 3G it isnt as good as it used to be. I would be happy just to be able to get on the CC site and book a cL in less than an hour, never mind watching TV.
so streaming internet tv is ok on mobile internet dongles? What sort of speeds do you need? Also is it available to all networks as i believe it acts like p2p which i assume is also blocked by all networks?
I can't even get BBC i/player to work as the quality of my connection is so poor! I could pay £20 a month and it wouldn't make any diference as I am too far away from the exchange., yet itv.com - I can view programs on there better, it varies in 'buffering'
I have a 3 mobile stick, payg, but not used it yet as haven't been away to try.. Only available for a £10 topup from Tescos, anyone no of other places I could get it.
so streaming internet tv is ok on mobile internet dongles? What sort of speeds do you need? Also is it available to all networks as i believe it acts like p2p which i assume is also blocked by all networks?
Around 500kbps will just about do. Things like Sopcast are p2p (but I have not found them blocked anywhere), whereas iPlayer and 4OD are just video streams I believe.
Not used it enough yet to give a rounded opinion, but we have used a USB dongle and indoor aerial at home and on two sites in SW, and it behaved perfectly.... I did my homework as to which dongle and aerial, and I'm pretty happy, my laptop is a 17" dell widescreen, so a good size screen, you need to be more or less straight in front of it of course, but picture is fine, and signal very easy to find..
I, m using www.tvcatchup.com right now and its great and free. Despite the name it is almost live, I think its a few seconds or so behind real time TV. And as stated above can alsobe used on i phone
Dave
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