How do I get my own connection? I can’t afford to live on my own in this city.
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Bugs in TVOS 15.4.1
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HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
I don't know. If you find out that you have unreliable broadband when you want/need broadband, you'll possibly need to innovate a way to control your own broadband. Maybe add a roommate and split the costs? Or move to some other place with better tenant services?
I sympathize with the situation if you have a true dependency on basically leaning on someone else's broadband. Maybe you can lay out the situation and they will help you solve it by running you an ethernet cable upstairs (bypassing wifi entirely)? You've said they will claim "perfect wifi" but obviously it's not perfect for an application you want to use. So maybe they will help their tenant solve this problem either with one run of ethernet or in some other way.
Perhaps in discussing it with them, you find out that they are leaning on an ancient wifi router and this motivates them to buy a newer one with more robust wifi speeds? The way wifi tech is advancing "ancient" could be as little as 4 years or so.
Anyone who has a problem and wants a solution bad enough finds a way.
What’s that? I have T-Mobile and can’t seem to get the ATV to see my phone as a hotspot.
Not a hotspot, an isp - a cellular internet modem. All 3 networks offer them, but availability is location specific. Here's T-Mobile's offering:
T-Mobile Home Internet | Reliable 5G Wireless Home Internet
Check your home internet availability for T-Mobile's fast, 5G wireless internet by address. We're working hard to deliver our 5G internet across the country.
www.t-mobile.com
Have no experience with them but might be an option.
Too expensive... $50 a month? I pay less than that because I share the internet connection. Thanks anyways..
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Even more anecdotal evidence that someone else is prob biting into the bandwidth pie when you are also making high demands of it. When they finish, a bigger slice of the pie becomes available to you again. No reboot necessary because AppleTV is simply accessing whatever bandwidth is available.
That’s still my best guess.
It could also be old router equipment, throttling software, appliance or other stuff interference, etc… or faulty AppleTV. You could completely rule out the AppleTV with the Ethernet connection experiment or taking it to somebody else’s home for a movie marathon, hooking into their wifi and seeing if the dramatic slowdown happens on a completely different system.
Once you can rule out AppleTV, you will know it’s the wifi being shared with you… and then can make decisions about what to do about it: get your own, convince landlord to run an Ethernet cable up to you and/or perhaps update and aging router, find a different place to live with better wifi, etc.
I am low income for Denver so my options are limited. But I will continue to test and see. He claims he replaced the router recently but it’s still WIFI 5 according to my Mac and not WIFI 6 which is the latest. If I had more income yes I would have my own place with my own WIFI.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Roommate! And if that means you have to move to add the space for a roommate, that may actually kill 2 birds with one stone.
What is the bandwidth of his ISP? What kind of network speeds does he get with speedtest?
No idea. But I can say or late my ATV has been getting the same speed as my Mac which is 160-230 megabits per second.
AppleTV has been getting more than 200 megabits per second everyday so perhaps the issue of having my ATV next to my TV was the culprit as it was blocking the WIFI signal. Or perhaps landlord has been using too much bandwidth I don't know. The other day ago however he and a friend were both streaming on their Androids and I only got like 18 megabits per second. I just waited until they were done and ATV was back to normal again. So I am not going to reboot ATV as it does not need to be rebooted regularly.
ATV is really a great device and I am sad that so many prefer Android or Roku over it. My parents used to have a Roku but traded it in for a ATV as they believe the ATV is the better device.
ATV is really a great device and I am sad that so many prefer Android or Roku over it. My parents used to have a Roku but traded it in for a ATV as they believe the ATV is the better device.
If you in an Apartment building everybody is using it roughly at same time! Mark my words when I lived in Apartment building while work night sifts the Internet speed was huge bandwidth is morning times starting around 09:30 to 14:00 then when back on Days the bandwidth was barely adequate, so one is slave to others around you and penny pinching bandwidth rate the landlord bought and how the made and what year!