General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Eel O'Brian on December 07, 2008, 02:39:35 PM
Title: Man, fuck Netflix on the 360
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 07, 2008, 02:39:35 PM
I haven't been able to get more than five minutes into a movie without "your connection has slowed, we're adjusting playback" and them lowering the resolution to .gif levels
i pay for road runner turbo, and i can check the connection speed at any time, my speeds don't fluctuate that wildly
also, HD vids stream just fine on my pc
well, back to downloading movies off the newgroups, i guess
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 07, 2008, 02:40:19 PM
are you streaming over wireless?
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Post by: demi on December 07, 2008, 02:40:45 PM
Actually, RoadRunner is apparently throttling Netflix
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 07, 2008, 02:42:51 PM
if that turns out to be the case then fuck roadrunner, i'll go with dsl
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 07, 2008, 02:46:06 PM
lemme check and see if it does the same shit through my pc
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 07, 2008, 02:55:38 PM
not an optimal connection, but better than on the 360
maybe it's a router issue
this router is old as dirt
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 07, 2008, 03:02:28 PM
i fixed it
spoiler (click to show/hide)
i'm downloading a high quality xvid of the movie off alt.binaries.highspeed
[close]
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 07, 2008, 03:24:08 PM
Ever since my internet started working again last night, my 360 has been lightning fast with awesome video quality for Netflix. Pan's Labyrinth looks like Blu-ray :bow2
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 07, 2008, 03:24:45 PM
i'm downloading a high quality xvid of the movie off alt.binaries.highspeed
[close]
what's this now?
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Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on December 07, 2008, 03:44:22 PM
It worked fine over my roadrunner. Videos looked like screener quality.
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Post by: thekavorka on December 07, 2008, 04:13:29 PM
weird. i have Road Runner, and I get HD streaming on to the 360
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 07, 2008, 05:29:09 PM
Works fine for me
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Post by: Jansen on December 07, 2008, 05:33:21 PM
works great for me on my measly 6mb connection
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Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on December 08, 2008, 12:58:42 AM
My 256k does it fine.
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Post by: MrAngryFace on December 08, 2008, 12:59:33 AM
I dont know why you'd wanna go DSL. Mine is steady but its quality is nowhere near where it needs to be for HD streaming. Considering getting comcast high speed just cause I use netflix streaming a lot now
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Post by: The Fake Shemp on December 08, 2008, 01:00:41 AM
Just to warn you, MAF, I've used both over the years and DSL is a lot more consistent with a good provider than Comcast. The cost of higher download/upload is inconsistent service, shoddy tech support and throttling.
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Post by: MrAngryFace on December 08, 2008, 01:03:18 AM
I've seen Prole's Cable and it moves way faster, even when slower.
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Post by: The Fake Shemp on December 08, 2008, 01:06:30 AM
I won't deny the speed is faster and when it works - it's great. I've never been a fan of Comcast, at least in the D.C. metropolitan area, because of the inconsistency of the service. I mean - hell! - I've had no Internet for almost a week and a half. That kind of lapse in service is just kind of inexcusable, in my opinion. And it's not the first black mark on their service record with me. I sometimes had to deal with slower speeds when I had SBC and other DSL providers, but the service was always consistent and hardly ever down.
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Post by: MrAngryFace on December 08, 2008, 01:07:44 AM
I dunno, all I can say is my current service blows, and I need something faster.
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Post by: The Fake Shemp on December 08, 2008, 01:09:36 AM
No FIOS in your area? That's what I'm jumping to.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 11, 2009, 08:18:55 PM
bumping to say this sucks again
telling me my connection is one bar "basic" when i just played a cod match at four bars not even five minutes earlier
oh sure, when it's 6 in the morning i can get a four bar connection
just not when i might, you know, actually want to watch a fucking movie
fuck netflix
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Post by: siamesedreamer on January 11, 2009, 08:36:26 PM
I think they're having problems with it.
Never had any issues until last night. I had watched episodes 1-8 in a row of Weeds Season 1 and when I tried to watch the 9th it told me I was having connection issues. Had to finish the last two episodes on my computer.
Haven't tried it today though.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 11, 2009, 08:50:35 PM
yeah, had issues last night tryin to watch doctor who season 2 -- it would just crash when the p started. i figure it's a server thang
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Post by: archie4208 on January 11, 2009, 09:03:34 PM
I just finished watching The Office with no problems whatsoever.
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Post by: demi on January 11, 2009, 10:02:27 PM
No problems watching all of Heroes, came up as HD. It kills my interenet though, cant browse for shit.
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Post by: siamesedreamer on January 17, 2009, 10:20:43 PM
Is Netflix fubared for anyone else right now?
Its telling me that its temporarily unavailable.
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Post by: Jansen on January 18, 2009, 01:25:08 AM
i always get 4 bars
:bow netflix streaming :bow2
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 18, 2009, 11:21:49 AM
Same here. Not a single problem with it.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 18, 2009, 11:25:24 AM
had some hitches last night with doctor who season 3
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Post by: archie4208 on January 18, 2009, 11:26:22 AM
It's hitched twice for me during The Office.
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Post by: demi on January 18, 2009, 08:25:54 PM
I just added Final Fantasy Advent Children. Gonna jerk off tonight
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Post by: siamesedreamer on January 18, 2009, 08:32:43 PM
Got it working again. For whatever reason I had to re-register the console.
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Post by: Draft on January 18, 2009, 09:57:07 PM
It took me like 2 months of off and on, random tech jiggering to finally get NetFlix streaming correct over wireless. I couldn't tell you exactly what I did, aside from repeatedly opening and closing various ports.
Seems to work great now, and it's easily the best thing about the Xbox.