Home TV via WiFi

[The Dotties]

Our virgin contract is up soon, and renewal is coming in at circa £80 pm.
That’s a lot of dosh for the relatively small amount of use it gets.
Has anybody gone down the route of getting their tv via a home WiFi modem.
We’ve got Netflix, and amazon prime on a firestick, which should cover our needs, and a modem from 3 costs about £28 pm, a big difference from £80.
Would/could I get a recording box to put “inline” to record when away.
We wouldn’t need a landline phone any more, using our mobiles for everything.
Cheers me dears
Geoff

 

[TCG]

with your amazon firestick you can get live TV

 

[TheBig1]

Hi Geoff, we have a firestick with extra apps on at home and another to use in the van. No difference in service between the two. But we do have cable internet via Virgin in the house. Keep thinking that we will bin Virgin and just use Three in a router. will also mean we can bin the barely used phone line

 

[The Dotties]

with your amazon firestick you can get live TV

Appreciate that, that how I do it in the van.
Just wondered on the practicality of doing the same in the home, with the option to record.

 

[sallylillian]

HDhomerun. Needs an antenna but offers many options. Or link it to Plex, but that may be a bridge too far? Firetv has the Plex app too for remote access.

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[The Dotties]

Appreciate that, that how I do it in the van.
Just wondered on the practicality of doing the same in the home, with the option to record.

John,
That’s what I want to do. Any real problems with it?
I would be using 3 in a router, we do have good WiFi here, 40 download and 10 upload on the phones

 

[The Dotties]

HDhomerun. Needs an antenna but offers many options. Or link it to Plex, but that may be a bridge too far? Firetv has the Plex app too for remote access.

Sounds a bit more than I need, but I’ll look at it. Thanks.

 

[TCG]

Appreciate that, that how I do it in the van.
Just wondered on the practicality of doing the same in the home, with the option to record.

Hi as previously said you can watch live TV via your fire stick and record to a usb stick

 

[Speve]

The problem where we live is that we get absolutely rubbish mobile signals on all networks as we live in a dip with a very large building in front of us blocks the signals so need land line.
You need to check your signal before committing.?

 

[The Dotties]

Hi as previously said you can watch live TV via your fire stick and record to a usb stick

That’s the type of info I need. Got the time to explain how?
I don’t want to waste money buying bits I later discover I didn’t need ?

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[Jimbohorlicks]

We dropped virgin, got too expensive, now on talk talk, 19.95 a month for 18 months, no issues as yet, broadband plus phone line but not used that yet.
Ps
Uses the phone lines.

 

[TheBig1]

John,
That’s what I want to do. Any real problems with it?
I would be using 3 in a router, we do have good WiFi here, 40 download and 10 upload on the phones

No problems at all with it Geoff, works as it should, but I have an excellent signal at home. Never bothered with recording from the firestick

 

[TCG]

That’s the type of info I need. Got the time to explain how?
I don’t want to waste money buying bits I later discover I didn’t need ?

Sorry i have been leading you up the garden path... just checked you cannot record live TV from a firestick..
i am informed by the boss that we watch live TV via Freeview (rooftop Ariel) we then go into the guide and select record to USB.

but a question if i may, why do you need to record when you have catch up TV

 

[TCG]

having said that i have just googled it and got, so maybe you can record live tv on firestick

 

[The Dotties]

Sorry i have been leading you up the garden path... just checked you cannot record live TV from a firestick..
i am informed by the boss that we watch live TV via Freeview (rooftop Ariel) we then go into the guide and select record to USB.

but a question if i may, why do you need to record when you have catch up TV

That’s a good point. Is everything on catch up with firestick, or is some programming once only?

Our paths are crossing!!??

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[denisejoe]

We've dumped the landline and broadband and are now using 3 Home Hub. Not sure what they're charging at the moment but when we took our out a couple of months ago they had a half price offer for 6 months on an 18 month contract. We're paying £11.50 for 6 months and then £23 for 12 months.

We don't have a brilliant broadband in this area as we're not in a fibre area so works much better than the old landline did!

Denise

 

[barsteward]

I have done quite a bit of testing over the past couple of months with a http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-5...0001&campid=5338547443&icep_item=333346764387

and a Smarty Card which is a part of 3 and runs on the 3 network.

My download and up load speeds have been impressive to say the least far better than BT, I have had down load speeds in excess of 80mbs and never had less down load speed than BT even at peek times.
The Smarty Card costs me £18 75 a month on a one month rolling contract but as long as I do not cancel I am guaranteed a 25% discount for the length of the contract

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I fully intent to take up another contract in my wife's name and ditch BT at the end of the month.

I have been so impressed that I have fitted the whole of the tested system in the motor home.
The cost of BT for me personally is around £50 a month and as yet I haven't tested how the system is going to work in a mobile situation but if everything went wrong all can be cancelled

 

[Minxy]

We don't have any subscription TV services at all and only have mobile phones (no landline), hubby gets unlimited data (as well as calls & texts) for £15 pcm with cashback, I just use a 3 PAYG sim. We can't get BT landline here (no-man's land!) as it's either Kingston Communications or mobile provision.

The question I'd be asking myself is how desperate am I to have a subscription TV service in the first place, for use we don't need or want one.