Thread: Sky and tiscali
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Old 06-07-2007, 07:16   #8
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Re: Sky and tiscali
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Originally Posted by sgorge View Post
For TV to work over broadband service providers need to seriously improve their bandwith and stability (unless they send it at very poor quality) or you are watching it in a small window on your PC. But for a 40" telly this won't be any good. TV needs to be send real-time and not just streamed and buffered. No good having the six oclock news start at 6.02. I cannot see this becoming mainstream any time soon so I don't understand why Tiscaly would fork out for this!
Actually I think most of these IPTV services use QOS and reserved bandwidth to maintan stablity.

I know btvision reserves around 1.5mbit/s downstream for the vod while its in use and also uses the Homehub uses QOS to priortise the vision packets going on the upstream (afaik)

I would guess its probably the same for these other services, after all if the service is run by the ISP then they can setup QOS at their end if they so desire and issue you with their own router that can do it at your end.
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