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12-31-2021, 01:00 PM | #136 | |
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Anyway, did you end up with more than one Google WiFi box? I ask because the current network box has both the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, and each current TV box offered 2.4GHz too, and I'm just concerned that having just one box offering WiFi for the whole house might not provide a great experience on the opposite end of the house. Unfortunately the Fiber Jack isn't in the middle of the house. And last, since my wife is mostly into local channels, have you found any issues with YouTubeTV not providing local channels? And it's $65 a month now, so I'm wondering just how much this will really reduce my current TV bill... Any thoughts about your experience would be appreciated. |
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12-31-2021, 09:59 PM | #137 |
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I love youtube TV and it carries all the local channels in KCMO. I have a one remote for everything with the amazon fire TV Cube 4K. It set up all my AV gear in one scan. It turns my avr on and selects the correct mode. I never use the voice commands because you have to learn basically a whole new language that fire tv only knows.
it was 125.00 for a long time I bought mine when a sale occurred a year ago for 90 bucks. Amazon had it for 70 bucks yesterday I saw. I got the google tv free as a promotion. It was good also with the Android tv but could never get my AV equipment to connect all at once. |
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01-01-2022, 09:35 AM | #138 | |
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01-01-2022, 09:40 AM | #139 |
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I've order a digital antenna just to see how well it works too. I'm not sure that'll be the complete answer but I figured I might as well get one and see how well it works. If it sucks, I'll simply return it.
I'm also wondering if there's a way to "inject" the received signal into the house's COAX cabling and be able to get away with only buying on digital antenna. |
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01-01-2022, 03:21 PM | #140 | |
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There is only one wi-fi network, the 2.4 and 5.0 are the same with the pucks. Supposedly the puck is advanced enough to decide which band your device needs, but I have found almost all of my devices landed on the 2.4, including my brand new iphone I got a couple of months back. The Mesh improved the signal strength in the house, and my wifi feels about the same as it was with the network box. My fiber jack is in the basement. I have one puck where the network box was in our living room near the TV, and the other one is upstairs in our Master bedroom. Wifi upstairs does connect better than before. No issues with local channels, other than YouTube's dispute with DIsney a few weeks back. We lost ABC and all of the Disney owned networks for a day while they hammered out a new deal. I have noticed that Chiefs games run about 5 seconds behind (I only noticed because of the discord chat). The network box was perfectly timed, so I just have to watch myself in the chat to not look ahead. Cost wise we were at $206 with google---1GB internet, TV, five TV boxes, and the sports package for NFL Redzone. No longer use the TV Boxes, Google gave us 1 Chromecast for each TV box we had. Paying 75 for Youtube TV during football season (extra 10 bucks to get the sports package for NFL Redzone...the rest of the package is crap so I am dropping it once the playoffs start), and our Internet bill is $70, so we are saving around 50 bucks a month. If you want 4k TV, that is 10 bucks extra for Youtube TV, but I did not see the value in paying extra as there is not much 4k TV content out there. Hopefully that answers your questions! |
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01-01-2022, 06:34 PM | #141 | |
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And thanks again for the feedback. |
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01-02-2022, 11:07 PM | #142 | |
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But now I have it plugged into an old desktop that I use as a DVR and only use it with one TV. |
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01-03-2022, 11:10 AM | #143 | |
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So I'll get it working on the main TV, then see if it works to light up the rest of the house. Should be a fun little experiment. |
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01-03-2022, 02:10 PM | #144 | |
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01-03-2022, 02:31 PM | #145 | |
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And it should allow me to find the best place for the antenna too. Unfortunately, looking at the FCC's map, our house in Lee's Summit the best option would be a high NE facing window and we simply don't have that, it's N, S, E or W in this house. We'll see. |
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01-06-2022, 03:19 PM | #146 |
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I have good news to report; you can indeed drive all you home's TVs off of one inexpensive digital antenna. Just buy a COAX splitter (if you don't have one laying around) if you need to put it into a TV near the antenna, split the COAX signal coming from the antenna, put one into the local TV, put the other into the local/closest coax wall outlet, and every TV that's connected into that COAX system should be fine. I'm driving four TVs on it as I type... Just make sure your COAX isn't connected to the local TV provider's COAX in the ground. You may need to go outside to disconnect that if you hadn't done that before. I had, so it was n problem.
So find the place where the antenna will get the best signal, hopefully near one of your home's COAX outlets, and make it happen. Now, to see if we can live with what's offered "over the air" (digital or not)!!! |
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01-06-2022, 09:39 PM | #147 | |
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01-06-2022, 09:58 PM | #148 |
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01-06-2022, 10:11 PM | #149 | |
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I've been doing that very thing for the last 10 years. Used all the wires that were being used for my cable at the time. |
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01-06-2022, 11:17 PM | #150 |
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Been using it for a week or two. Have a gig of fiber so making the switch from cable tomorrow. Got the 4K and sports package.
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