Wireless Cable advanages/disadvanages

 

My cable company decided to go from wired cable to wireless cable, the reason why is quite obvious, they may reach more costumers that way. As for the custumers they could put their televisions anywhere as long there is an outlet. Not only that the costumers can watch their cable on any devices, P. Cs, iPad, iPod, cellphone etc.

For example:  You're watching a good movie in your living room and suddenly have to go to the bathroom, just take an iPad with you and watch the movie there. The cable app records everything you're watching on a free cloud, so if you're watching TCM and are in the middle of a movie, you will get a prompt saying, "Start from the beginning?" if there is no reply to, it will simply resume.

In my case they have installed Amazon firesticks in back of my televisions, the reason my cable tv is now an app. Yes, I can watch tv anywhere, as long as it's in range of their router (usually 100 feet). Garages are usually 50 feet away from the house, so one can even get cable there.

Now if I connected it to another router, like in a friend's house, some yards away, and try to watch cable, it will display a message saying, "Watch at home" . Yes, they know your location has changed, but other apps on the firestick will still work like for example Pluto TV. Your router and your firestick have codes embedded in it, if the codes do not match then no cable.

The disadvantage of wireless cable is when the internet goes down, the cable goes along with it, unless after the wireless cable was installed, the used old cable wires were switched to an antenna.

Yes, one can buy a router extender that extends the router's 100 feet limit to 200. If there is a park near you less than 200 feet, you can watch cable there on your cellphone, iPad, iPod, computer or simply sit on your porch to watch and enjoy the fresh air, or simply do not bring any device and just enjoy nature's music.

Yes. you can get wireless cable on a satellite. (end)