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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Internet/TV advice requested Reply #15 - 03/31/21 at 02:18:49 My wife watches stuff on her Kindle and glances at what I am watching on TV, unless I find something she likes enough to watch. I'm generally the one with the remote.
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Reply #16 - 04/01/21 at 04:22:22

Well I have a little bit more knowledge with 5-6 days of use.

The little Google Wifi station they installed is in the pantry at the far left corner of our house. I had it installed there as it was easiest to run the wires, it is closest to the porch, it is directly underneath where our upstairs computers are located, and it is nearest to the garage.

I ran a speed test on the upstairs computer that is connected using the Wifi. The speed was somewhere around 55 Mbps - a far cry from the claimed 250 Mbps they advertise. I took my phone and sat right next to the Wifi thingy and did a speed test using my phone - I got 264 Mbps! It appears that 10 feet makes a huge difference! (I wonder if the Wifi signal works better horizontally than vertically?)

I was able to watch Roku last night at my sister's house. They have a very basic device and no subscriptions that I am aware of. We watched a show called "Better Late than Never" , and the commercials were a big turn off for me. With our current satellite system we record the shows when they are broadcast and they we watch them later - and we can fast forward through the commercials. We can watch most 30 minute shows in 20 minutes! Not being able to fast forward through the commercials on Roku was pretty frustrating.

We will likely get Roku once we are back from Texas - then learn more about it as we explore with it and learn our options for subscriptions to channels to eliminate commercials, how to record and watch later, etc.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Internet/TV advice requested Reply #17 - 04/01/21 at 07:47:18 The TV remote has a mute button. It's my favorite button. Yeah, they hit pretty regular.
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Reply #18 - 04/01/21 at 08:56:08

PBS as far as I know does not have ads on ROKU. Subscription plans also do not, like Netflix.

https://support.roku.com/article/208756038

I'm not a huge fan of ads myself and had to have software developed to auto-skip YouTube ads.

The biggest reason I went with Amazon products is the speed, the reduced ad content, and the device convenience. I can just tell it to play something on the garage TV and it happens all on it's own.

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Re: Internet/TV advice requested
Reply #19 - 04/01/21 at 09:15:29

Dave wrote on 04/01/21 at 04:22:22:

and the commercials were a big turn off for me. ..... Not being able to fast forward through the commercials on Roku was pretty frustrating.

That is why I prefer Kodi over Roku. No advertising at all.

I don't know if it will work with the Roku (I never looked at one to see if DNS is user configurable), but if it is, you may want to look into something called "Pi Hole". It is a Raspberry Pi that sits on your network to block ads. You simply tell your devices to use the Pi Hole as the DNS server and no more ads get through. And it will work for any other devices on your network so web surfing is ad free too.

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Reply #20 - 04/02/21 at 03:41:15

Yesterday I had a few minutes of solo "seat time" on the Roku - I learned that there is a lot of stuff on there.....and navigating all the options is going to take a while to learn. I found a place where I could watch the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and a lot of old TV shows commercial free. It was cool since they would start with the very first episode and just keep on playing the episodes in series for as long as you wanted to sit still. I watched the first episode of "My Name is Earl" - you could see the breaks where commercials would be inserted but there were no commercials or pauses.

When it comes to this kind of stuff - I am like the motorcycle Noob who can't find the drain plug to change the oil. It is all new to me and it takes a while and a bit of help for me to get it right.

After the Texas trip we will cancel our "Cellulite TV" service and get Roku. If Roku cannot satisfy my wife's PBS needs and we can't access the local channels - then we will get an antenna and some form of device that can be programmed to record. I know that the VCR recorders could be programmed to record shows - I bet there is something that can now do that digitally without the need for a tape.

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5720 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Internet/TV advice requested Reply #21 - 04/02/21 at 07:54:13 Heck Dave If ya can watch anytime ya want , then why record ? ................ There is a "TV Guide" icon , and in it I have found a Out-Doors Sports channel with motorbike racing , truck races , etc. ... it might be nice to record some of the things they have sometimes (it runs live).
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 17801 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Internet/TV advice requested Reply #22 - 04/02/21 at 18:08:05 MMRanch wrote on 04/02/21 at 07:54:13: Heck Dave If ya can watch anytime ya want , then why record ? ................ Mostly because you can fast forward through the commercials - if you can't find it broadcast without the commercials.
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5720 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Internet/TV advice requested Reply #23 - 04/02/21 at 20:15:34 I use the commercials to refill my water jug and such . Maybe I don't hate the commercials enough ?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28754 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Internet/TV advice requested Reply #24 - 04/03/21 at 09:34:16 MMRanch wrote on 04/02/21 at 20:15:34: I use the commercials to refill my water jug and such . Maybe I don't hate the commercials enough ? How do you get them in your water jug?
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5720 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Internet/TV advice requested Reply #25 - 04/03/21 at 19:45:31 How do you get them in your water jug? Huh Versey , you know those commercials folks are kin to telemarketers . They can get into anything whether you want them or not !
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