[LINK] Jan's NBN experience

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Mon Mar 27 11:12:59 AEDT 2017


On 27/03/17 11:03, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> On 27/03/2017 10:06 AM, JanW wrote:
>> My question: I am at the low speed setting of 12Mbs. If I upped it to the next tier, 25Mbs, would that increase my speed difference OR would I still get the jerky thru-put and the lower speeds?
> My guess is that you don't have an NBN problem, you have a local, wifi
> contention problem using chromecast. The data has to come down from the
> internet, go to your laptop then get sent to the chromecast device.

Actually (and this might depend on what you're watching), the computer 
is just used to start watching, then the Chromecast streams directly 
from the provider, not via your computer.

https://techforluddites.com/google-chromecast-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work/


Hamish



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