Question about Nasa TV

Why can't I watch Nasa TV for more than about 5 minutes before the bandwidth
drops to about 30kbps? This only seems to happen during the important news
conferences (like today). Can someone point me to a site that works?

Why can't I watch Nasa TV for more than about 5 minutes before the bandwidth
drops to about 30kbps? This only seems to happen during the important news
conferences (like today). Can someone point me to a site that works?

get satellite tv, nasa is carried on both dish and direct tv

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:21:18 GMT, "Steven Tomsic"
wrote:

Why can't I watch Nasa TV for more than about 5 minutes before the bandwidth
drops to about 30kbps? This only seems to happen during the important news
conferences (like today). Can someone point me to a site that works?

....**** *that* idea. Like I want every geek sucking up *my* bandwidth
on that feed! Take what you can get and live with it.

[T-3 Greed Mode = Permanently ON]

OM

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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
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Seriously, why does this happen? Same thing happens to me. I get connected,
then and it always works fine to start, but it eventually drops to 34k. OK,
I can live with that if there are bandwidh sharing limitations, but why
does it start me out at 150k again when I connect again then? They should
just start you out at 34k and be done with it then. Also, how come all the
feeds are Real Media (tm) these days? The RM player on my palmtop is kind
of sucky. Bryan

"fstops" wrote in message
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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote in :

(strange rant deleted)


Seriously, why does this happen? Same thing happens to me. I get
connected,
then and it always works fine to start, but it eventually drops to 34k.
OK,
I can live with that if there are bandwidh sharing limitations, but why
does it start me out at 150k again when I connect again then? They should
just start you out at 34k and be done with it then. Also, how come all the
feeds are Real Media (tm) these days? The RM player on my palmtop is kind
of sucky. Bryan


Yeah, that's what happens to me. I would be happy with a 34k connection if
I could actually hear what they're saying or if it dropped out after about
an hour or so but it seems to only be high bandwidth for about 5 minutes.
As for getting a sattelite dish, sure, I could do that but what about all
the poor kids that don't have sattelite dishes in school?

Steven Tomsic wrote:

Yeah, that's what happens to me. I would be happy with a 34k connection
if I could actually hear what they're saying or if it dropped out after
about an hour or so but it seems to only be high bandwidth for about 5
minutes. As for getting a sattelite dish, sure, I could do that but what
about all the poor kids that don't have sattelite dishes in school?

The ONLY thing Dish has over DirecTV is that DirecTV sees fit to put NASA TV
on a transponder at their 119W orbital slot instead of their main slot at
101W. There's no additional fee to add the channel but if your locals come
in at the 101W slot (and most do), then you have to either get a second
dish and a mulitswitch and point it at 119W just for NASA TV, or buy an
elliptical dish/multiswitch unit. It's worse if you want satellite HD,
too, because most of THOSE transponders are at DirecTV's 110W slot, so you
need an elliptical dish and a Triple-LNB and a more expensive multiswitch.

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Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
Reformed Aerospace Engineer
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The ONLY thing Dish has over DirecTV is that DirecTV sees fit to put NASA TV

I am highly interested in satellite TV. Was a dish dealer at one time, heck got
VIP invite to the dish echostar 6 launch. I post at DBSforums and a bit at
DBStalks

Dish presently has some major problems. The biggest of which is the buggy
software, mostly affecting their DVR receivers. Digital video recording will
change foirever how you watch TV. Record shows to a hard drive, pause live tv,
skip commercials, no longer will you have to accomodate the channels schedule.
You record the shows you want and watch them when YOU want

Given all this the Dish boxes have software troubles that cause crashes,
freezes, and lost recordings. Previously Dish DVR recording features were FREE
but recently they instituted a $5.00 per month per BOX charge for this feature
on all new receivers.

Direct TV always did charge $5 PER ACCOUNT / month, and has better more
functional and most important STABLE software. Very few bugs and such. Plus
unlike dish all their DVRs have 2 tuners and name based recordings! So when
survivor changes nights the show still records automatically

I highly recommend Direct TV based on these sad realties. Plus its speculted
Charlie Ergen who owns Dish is about to see out after self admuittely doing a
poor job.

Chech out Direct TIVOs you will not be disappointed! With the latest promotion
you get a multi room install with that 3 slot dish for FREE.

In the next month I am converting to Diect after tiring of the bugs and
failures.......

On 25 Jan 2004 18:34:07 GMT, fstops wrote:

(strange rant deleted)

....Someone loan this guy a sense of humor, please?

Tsk.

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:06:48 -0600, Herb Schaltegger wrote:

It's worse if you want satellite HD,
too, because most of THOSE transponders are at DirecTV's 110W slot, so you
need an elliptical dish and a Triple-LNB and a more expensive multiswitch.

Actually, the same multiswitch works for the triple LNB setup, the SATB
and SATC signals are combined upstream of the multiswitch.

The newer elliptical dishes are already set up for three LNBs. I had an
old one before we moved, got a new one in the DirectTV movers program, but
the new one only had two LNBs. I added a third LNB when I got an HD
receiver and was confused about installation instructions, which involved
putting a combiner/splitter before the multiswitch, until I realised that
I just had to plug the third LNB into the connector and it was all good.

Rick DeNatale wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:06:48 -0600, Herb Schaltegger wrote:

It's worse if you want satellite HD,
too, because most of THOSE transponders are at DirecTV's 110W slot, so
you need an elliptical dish and a Triple-LNB and a more expensive
multiswitch.

Actually, the same multiswitch works for the triple LNB setup, the SATB
and SATC signals are combined upstream of the multiswitch.

The newer elliptical dishes are already set up for three LNBs. I had an
old one before we moved, got a new one in the DirectTV movers program, but
the new one only had two LNBs. I added a third LNB when I got an HD
receiver and was confused about installation instructions, which involved
putting a combiner/splitter before the multiswitch, until I realised that
I just had to plug the third LNB into the connector and it was all good.

That's good to know. I've kind of been avoiding looking into this - kind of
like ignoring the monster in the closet, you know?

Right now I've got all my channels coming from 101 but I've got a 2x4
multiswitch feeding my two dual-tuner DirecTiVo units. How many outputs
does the new Phase III dish (triple-LNB)/multiswitch put out, if you know?
I'm going to move one of my DirecTiVos upstairs to the kids' playroom
sometime this year and replace it with an HD DirecTiVo (just demo'd at CES
and in beta with about 500 users nationwide). But that means I need an
elliptical dish and at least 6 outputs. I somehow doubt DirecTV is
including x8 multiswitches with the dish . . . :-/

--
Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
Reformed Aerospace Engineer
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