[LINK] Jan's NBN experience

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 27/03/2017 11:12 AM, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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/
>

Thank you (and Malcolm). I stand corrected.

So what's the problem?

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