I've got a Slingbox Pro HD, which I've used for years to stream to my Samsung Omnia and Omnia II. The framerate was always pretty bad, but I blames Verizon's ridiculously slow 3G. So, when I got the Thunderbolt, I expected to see a real improvement on 4G - but I'm not. It's still stuttery and freezes all the time, sometimes for 20-30 seconds. It's never smooth.
I've got cable at home, speed tests at about 3-4Mbps up. The T-bolt tests at 15+Mbps down. Plenty of bandwidth. SPM plays fine over WIFI at home, but on 3G or 4G, it's purely awful.
My setup is a Comcast DTA box connected via coax to the Slingbox. The Slingbox is connected to a DIR-655N lan port with Cat6 cable. The DIR-655N WAN port runs to the cable modem (SB6120) with Cat6 cable.
I've got the port forwarding set up (port 5001 to the SB TCP/UDP). I've tried with QOS enabled and disabled. I've tried with the SB set up in DMZ. Multicast enabled and disabled (don't know why that would affect it, but tried anyway).
I'm pulling my hair out, and I refuse to pay Sling another penny (they made me pay for a new license to switch to android, after assuring me when I bought the WinMo license, I could transfer it to any future device, regardless of OS). Anyone got any ideas?
I use it myself and have since back when the first one was released. Yes Wi-Fi always works better. I find fr myself that if I stay still and put it down, and stay at same signal strength it seems to work with very little stutter, other wise i get stutter.. but for the most part I irelaize what it's tryign to do and live with. it. That's just me...
I understand what you're saying, but its beyond that. I was trying to watch the football game yesterday, and it was literally unwatchable. I had three out of four bars of 4g, and it wouldn't stream for more than 2 seconds without freezing, often for more than 5-10 seconds. It wasn't just jumpy, it was awful.
Just to check, I went to speedtest.net, and checked bandwidth. 20Mbps down, 4Mbps up.
I mentioned the WiFi just to show the problem was limited to cellular network streaming.
I realize I'm not going to get 24fps 1080p, but it should be watchable.
I also had this problem. I seemed to have fixed it by changing the socket in which it was connected to on my router(just moved it over 1 spot),cleared it right up and its smooth as butter
I have used slingox and vulkano, and I would take vulkano any day. Stream very nice on charge and thunderbolt. On my Acer Tablet it stream near HD with 3+mbs and looks awesome with HDMI out to TV. I use this setup for tailgating, no more carrying around my satellite. Plus it is cheaper setup than sling.
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I have used slingox and vulkano, and I would take vulkano any day. Stream very nice on charge and thunderbolt. On my Acer Tablet it stream near HD with 3+mbs and looks awesome with HDMI out to TV. I use this setup for tailgating, no more carrying around my satellite. Plus it is cheaper setup than sling.
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Thanks. I'll try the LAN port switch like above first. I've been looking in to Vulkano already, but with the job going away at the end of the year, I can't justify any purchases like that. Might have to do away with the smartphones all together.
Sling really is a poor customer service company. First, they didn't honor their word about being able to move my spm license to any other smartphone, making me buy the android version coming from wimmo. Then, they want me to pay for any tech support. They never answer emails. I really would like to drop them for Vulkano.
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Dont feel bad I bought a copy for my WinMo phone, my iPhone, iPad and now Android
I use it on both my Thunderbolt and my Tab 10.1 (with the respective version for each). I have a Slingbox Solo.
I haven't had issues with video quality over 4G on either device (Tab tethered).
I have the old sling player solo. lol every time I start it up I'll get a message saying my device is incompatible, but it still works. Mine works fine unless I'm downloading something at home.
I once went the route of monsoon (vulcano) I have a Hava. never worked well, no support. I would have trouble going to their re-branded vulcano as I would expect the same.
I have an older version of slingbox - I get the incompatible message when I fire up my slingplayer on my TBolt, but my streaming over 4G is fantastic.
If you are using IP on Powerline adapter, you may want to consider the slinglink turbo.
I used to use some old netgear XE103's and my streaming was horrible. I upgraded to slinglink turbo's recently and upgraded my home network to UVerse highspeed and now my streaming is awesome - no interruptions at all watching a 3.5 hr football game on 4G.
Edit: I reread OP and see you have cat6 going directly to the slingbox. I am in same boat on the licensing - was an early adopter of the winmo slingplayer and helped beta test the android version. But still had to pay for license! I also am using port forwarding on my router - I just route port 5001 on TCP to my SBox. From sbox to dvr using composite cables.
What are your up load speeds from router side? Slingbox will can show at 256 k but the higher the uploading the better the quality when you use your mobile device to download. I have 1.5 mb upload from home then using thunderbolt phone and tethering to the (wifi) Xoom have only 3 second delay from the accual TV set. I also have the video quality set to high in settings not automatic.
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Im about to buy a sling box and sling it to my girl friends house so she can turn off her cable and save $40 a month....but as an added bonus
I realized i could probably view tv from my house using any avail wi-fi signal as well....
Or could i? I am a sling box virgin and do not know whats required.
Edit: I found a thread over in apps. It seems to be working on the newer releases of TNT and Vegan fine from what i can tell.
Hi,
I think you can only have one client/player connected per Slingbox at the same time, so if she's connected to you Slingbox and then you tried it would drop her connection. You could setup two Slingboxes, then both could work, on different channels even.
Jim
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Hi,
I think you can only have one client/player connected per Slingbox at the same time, so if she's connected to you Slingbox and then you tried it would drop her connection. You could setup two Slingboxes, then both could work, on different channels even.
Jim
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Thats still very cool. We both watch history channel at night etc but you are saying only one signal...regardless of if we mind using the same channel?
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Thats still very cool. We both watch history channel at night etc but you are saying only one signal...regardless of if we mind using the same channel?
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Yes, that's correct.
Also, be aware that if you're using Sling client on a PC or laptop, picture is OK, but at least for me the Slingplayer quality on Gtab is not so great.
Jim
Picture quality isn't the greatest, but it works. If it were me, I'd make sure I got Hulu to work as well. Picture quality is much better, and the selection of programming is pretty good.
Picture quality scales dynamically depending on your bandwidth -- so you may get a better picture quality when you are "local" that your girlfriend would get coming over the wire remotely...
It does work though -- I have an original SlingBox (so only SD)
I'm running the Android slingplayer app on my GTab (VEGAn beta 5.1.1)
I uploaded a short demo video to youtube (tags: sligplayer, G-Tablet, Vegan)
Have been running an original slingbox (SD version) for months now. Picture quality does vary depending on bandwidth but it is watchable.
the android app is 29.99 in the market place. a rather steep price. I am a dish subscriber, and the sling app is built into the box, and the viewer is free. Comcast has an xfinity remote web viewing function as does fios you might want to look into those before plnking down the cash
I use playon mobile to stream almost anything from my computer to my gtab. The quality is excellent but you will get allot of buffering at low bandwidth locations. You must connect one time from your home network. Download and install playon trial on your computer if you like it buy the prog.
I have the Monsoon Vulkano ($109.00 + free app) running on my Droid X and netbook and have been very pleased. I ordered a G-Tablet tonight so I will report back once I get it set up and let you know how it works.
Slingplayer working great on GTab VEGAn 7.
Couldn't get Slingbox player to work on Vegan GB.
Last release I saw was Beta 1 ver 5.11. What and where is Vegan 7?
Just got a Monsoon Vulkano, streaming works as advertised on my Evo4g, but doesn't work at all on the gtablet. I've tried everything from stock tnt to cyanogen to vegan to gadam,all fail at the "buffering" prompt.
I've seen others having better luck with sling, probably what I'll try next.
Justin
I just tried Corwins CM7 and the Vulkano works! First time on the g tablet for me. Nice!
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Vegan GB works now with Sling Player 1.2.
Hello everyone,
Just thought I'd let you know that splashtop remote hd(the tablet version) does not work on the galaxy tab 10.1. the regular version does work though, which is really kind of sad. I don't know how you can make a tablet specific version of an app and have it be worse on tablets than your original version. Hopefully there will be an update soon...
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Hello everyone,
Just thought I'd let you know that splashtop remote hd(the tablet version) does not work on the galaxy tab 10.1. the regular version does work though, which is really kind of sad. I don't know how you can make a tablet specific version of an app and have it be worse on tablets than your original version. Hopefully there will be an update soon...
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I got a reply from their support
Thanks lot for your great support!
Splashtop Remote HD has compatibility issue with Galaxy Tab 10.1 . Our
engineers are work on this now. We will fix this issue soon. I hope new
version will be available within one or two week. The solid schedule
still depends on whether there are other issues on this device. So I
can't promise the exact release time.
Before we can provide new version to fix this issue, if you need refund,
please go to http://support-remote.splashtop.com and open a ticket for
this. Our support team will tell you what information is needed, and
refund ASAP. After refund, you need to purchage our app again if you
want to use it.
Sorry for this issue again.
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Best Wishes,
Splashtop Remote Support Team
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What is the difference?
I hope there's support for higher resolutions. My desktop is 1440 x 900 I hate how splashtop changes the resolution when connected to android.
Market now says Galaxy Tab 10.1 is supported for Splashtop HD
and there's currently a 50% discount ...w00t!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.splashtop.remote.pad&feature=search_result
Does this mean I can watch netflix through this app? Do you have to be on the same wifi nework or something, can you use this miles away from your home?
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Does this mean I can watch netflix through this app? Do you have to be on the same wifi nework or something, can you use this miles away from your home?
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I have yet to try over another wifi network but I can almost watch hulu vids when tethering over my Vibrant on 3g.
So my guess is it will work fine over a real wifi connection.
At home I was watching both netflix and hulu flawlessly + playing Civ V... for me this is an amazing app and well worth the money.
Do you know if someone can use the desktop while I'm using this on the tablet? But for $5, I'll just get it in either case.
Works pretty dang good on my tab now. Worth the bucks, and fun to play tricks on my GF from the other room when my computer opens up a word doc and starts typing to her... lol.
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Do you know if someone can use the desktop while I'm using this on the tablet? But for $5, I'll just get it in either case.
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Well the point of remote desktop is to use your actual system will at a different location. So the other person will be able to use the computer, they will just be messing with whatever you're trying to do . I "tried" it the other night with my laptop and it seemed alright. Tried playing minecraft but that requires a keyboard+mouse to be playable but it was fairly smooth. I'm sure netflix and hulu would work fine.
You should be able to remote desktop to a computer on another network as long as you set up the router for that computer to do so (port forwarding, I believe??) I think there are instructions on the splashtop website for doing just that.
Sale over ?
It's still on sale, I just bought. Using it now and it works amazingly well (over wifi), far better than the other RDP clients I've tried so far. Next stop will be testing it's performance over the wifi hot spot on my captivate.
Five bucks already well spent.
Edit: works over 3G, but not super well. I suspect my mediocre upload speed is to blame. Afraid there's not a lot I can do about that right now. I'm moving soon, so hopefully my new place will have some better options for internet.
just thought i'd add i'm using this right now.. posting this reply.. from manhattan.. remotely connected to my pc in eugene oregon. i am tethering from my 4g tmobile and its almost as good as my wifi from home. Speedtest shows a 50ms ping and a 6- 8mbps connection.. I can stream netflix or stream movies from my pc and they are pretty darn smooth.. 5000 miles away!! Splashtop rocks!! I am using it on my ipad though.. been waiting for the hd version to be released before i buy a tab 10.1 since remote desktop is just about all i use... looks like its time to buy one.
gonna try it and see
In light of all the recent wifi issues with the Asus Transformer Prime. I got thinking.. Would it be possible for the prime to theoretically use a USB wifi dongle as the receiver through the keyboard dock?
Obviously android since gingerbread has had USB hosting and the ability to use mice, keyboards, game controllers and other devices, but how about a USB wireless networking adapter?
Thoughts?
Interesting thought and I have no idea... For average use wifi suffices but might be a nice option when going to a place where wifi is crap (like vacation house or something).
Iwas thinking the samething. The question is would there be driver issues with the USB device?
Not quite yet
If you are simply talking about a Wireless N Wifi dongle, there would be little gain, While not the best, a properly functioning Prime gets reasonable WiFi performance. Witness mine, which I regularly see 15-20 Mbit downloads speeds, so not great, but certainly acceptable.
If insetad you want a 3G wireless stick, at the present this is not an option. Honeycomb and even ICS do not provide support for these natively, though a rooted device I believe can be made to work with 1 or 2 3G sticks. When talking 3G, the best move is just root your phone and tether to that, but watch to 300 Mb game downloads folks. AT&T will make your head spin with the $ if you go over the measly 2 Gb plan (I was grandfathered in on an "Unlimited' data plan, and lost it... no biggie, they still bust you if you repeatedly use high bandwidth.
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I was wondering if there is any other thoughts on using a USB WiFi dongle with the prime. The reason I ask is that I note several retailers are starting to get stock in the UK and I am on the verge of purchasing.
The only issue I have is the WiFi range issue as I work on an offshore oil rig which has a WiFi network and I can currently use this within my cabin on a night with my net book to surf the net. However as there are a fair few partitions and a good distance etc between the WiFi router and the cabins, I don't think the Primes WiFi range would be sufficient (based on others posting issues when they are trying to pass through a few walls).
If a USB WiFi dongle could be made to work i would buy a prime tomorrow, otherwise I think I am going to stick with the net book for a while longer and wait for another model / manufacturer with Tegra 3 (I really don't want to follow the crowd and get an Apple!)
Many thanks!
Chris
Should knlw what that could be a good idea. THERES a guy in developement thread named Saturnde. He has made a thread called new or added drivers or something. He compiled a list of new drivers into a zip file for support of new USB devices that aren't normally supported by prime. He said if you want drivers for a particular device tl let him know. He will need name of device n model number or something. Won't hurt to run it past him and see if its feasible or possible. Let us know how it goes.
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If you are simply talking about a Wireless N Wifi dongle, there would be little gain, While not the best, a properly functioning Prime gets reasonable WiFi performance. Witness mine, which I regularly see 15-20 Mbit downloads speeds, so not great, but certainly acceptable.
If insetad you want a 3G wireless stick, at the present this is not an option. Honeycomb and even ICS do not provide support for these natively, though a rooted device I believe can be made to work with 1 or 2 3G sticks. When talking 3G, the best move is just root your phone and tether to that, but watch to 300 Mb game downloads folks. AT&T will make your head spin with the $ if you go over the measly 2 Gb plan (I was grandfathered in on an "Unlimited' data plan, and lost it... no biggie, they still bust you if you repeatedly use high bandwidth.
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Can you syggest a wifi dongle that i can use in an android tablet (my tablet's wifi is "broken")
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 that I purchased last year. There's been a lot of talk (last fracking year) about Miracast, WiDi, and how great it will be to mirror my device. Here we are in May 2013, and the tech is still garbage or non-exstent. I'd appreciate it if someone could help me. Here's the scenario:
My family (like many of yours) is completely perplexed by the function of a TV remote's "Input" button. Once they have to change the input on the TV, all hell breaks loose and I end up having to "fix" everything by pressing the input button to get the TV to the right input again. My family currently owns 2 iPhones, an iPad, and an iPod. I built a Windows 7 Media Center PC with a 5.1 speaker system that we use as our cable receiver, 3D Blu-ray player, media streamer, music player, and AppleTV receiver. Since everything is built into that one box, no one has to change an input, and all is harmonious. The main focus is the AppleTV receiver feature, which is accomplished using a program called AirServer. It's great because anyone can click on the Airplay button on their iDevice and a window automatically pops up on the PC, maximizes, and mirrors the iDevice. No changing inputs. Great, right?
I, however, have a Galaxy Note 2, and the one feature I desperately want is garbage on this device: mirroring. I don't want to stream something through DLNA (because only a limited amount of files/formats/apps support it). I don't want another box sucking up power and requiring me to switch inputs on both my TV and speaker system. All I want is to mirror my device to my PC in the same manner that Airserver lets me mirror an iDevice on my PC. So far, this seems bleak and far-fetched. There are no PC software options to mirror my Android device onto a PC. Besides, even if I were to buy a dongle, the Samsung Allshare Cast dongle is quite possibly the most infuriating piece of crap I've ever used. It stutters, pixelates, and puts my audio/video so far out of synch that it's useless. On top of it all, my Wifi (for internet, on the Note 2) disconnects when using Miracast/WiDi. I tried the Netgear PTV3000, which is also a stuttering, unreliable mess of a device. I'm also not going to root my device. It's 2013, and I shouldn't have to sacrifice receiving OTA updates because Google dropped the ball.
So here's the question: is there a way to mirror my Android device on a PC without rooting or buying another box/dongle? I'd like to keep my Android phone, but I'm switching back to Apple if September rolls around and I'm still going through this. I'm not a fan of the company, but Airplay mirroring just works. No downloading 20 video players and 6 codec packs. No out-of-synch issues with audio. No dropped WiFi. No family members complaining that they "broke" the tv because it's on the wrong input. I want all that on my Android phone.
Thanks
Then I would just go back to apple. As this feature will always be manufacturer spicific so you will have to do it the way that OEM requires and alot of android things will never play well with anything apple. Mainly not Samsung.
Wayne Tech Nexus
zelendel said:
Then I would just go back to apple. As this feature will always be manufacturer spicific so you will have to do it the way that OEM requires and alot of android things will never play well with anything apple. Mainly not Samsung.
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Yup, it sure seems that way. Samsung stuff only seems to work with other Samsung products. My options are that crappy dongle they make or buy a $1500 TV just to mirror my phone. No thanks.
My biggest complaint about Apple now is the damn lightning connector. I get why they made the 30-pin dock connector when they did, but Micro USB has been around for a while and has the bandwidth to handle everything going in and out of that phone. Making another proprietary connector was just a huge slap in the face to consumers everywhere.
I'm looking into buying a chromecast dongle but wanted to get some opinions. I mainly want to use the mirroring feature and don't want to have to connect a cord to do it. I've read a few reviews on some dongles and some on them they say that the wifi used to mirror to the tv also interferes with the data wifi. Any suggestions on what I should buy would be appreciated. Thanks!
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I'm looking into buying a chromecast dongle but wanted to get some opinions. I mainly want to use the mirroring feature and don't want to have to connect a cord to do it. I've read a few reviews on some dongles and some on them they say that the wifi used to mirror to the tv also interferes with the data wifi. Any suggestions on what I should buy would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Chromecast is relatively the cheapest and best way to go. Just do it... you'll be happy you did.
Also Amazon has it for 30$ and so does Bestbuy. Never found it any cheaper than this. $5.50 lower than most others.
And chromecast has the mirroring feature to? Didn't see it in the features list.
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I thinks is called streaming not mirroring but from what I understand you can serve any file to and play it as long as the device can share over your network.
I use the Netgear PTV3000, which does wireless mirroring. I bought it last year. It's been basically stuffed in the closet most of the time except for when i was travelling. It had a lot of stuttering, and disconnects. Basically had to close all apps, and had to keep the phone close to the device to minimize the issues.
Getting ready for a new trip. So took it out a few days ago and saw there was a new firmware update for it. All I can say it's a night and day difference. Now it streams video perfectly clear to the TV with my Note 3, no more stuttering, and do not have to keep the phone right by PTV3000 anymore.
I have the Chromecast as well the only issue is it doesn't play flash videos, and few other formats. An if your going to use it while in a hotel you will need a portable router as well. With the PTV3000 anything you have on your screen will stream to the tv, without needing a router.
A neat feature with the PTV3000, and the Note 3 stock video app. Is I can minimize the app, browse the web, or do other things while the video still plays on the tv without interruption.
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it was a couple of days ago, but I'm using another way, and want to inform you.
Im Using Tronsmart T1000. And I had also a PTV3000, but I'm not so lucky with this.
The Tronsmart works easy, connect my Android Tablett (Samsung Tab 2) as well as my Note 3 . And I can connect my Windows Laptop with this Dongle.
Mirroring and other things are running fine.
I've bought this from Everbuying.com ;
http://www.everbuying.com/product535239.html (was cheap and easy). But you can also check it by Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Tronsmart-T1000-Mirror2TV-Wireless-Compatible/dp/B00H2D3N0M
Because of the features from T1000 I recommend it in all ways. It makes a WLan Connection to the Home-Router, that you can redirect from Tronsmart direct to the internet. And all connected devices are running fine.