How do internet channels work?

Richard Lister

I'm going to record Occupied "live" on Sky Arts on my TalkTalk Youview box having watched the first 2 on sky on demand from Youview (thankyou) . I wondered how internet channels work? Does it stream it (so my house internet takes a hot at that time?)

momist

Yes, your broadband will 'take a hit' at that time.  Do you have a limited broadband package, or a slow connection?  If not, then no worries.  If you need to know how much bandwidth the stream will take, it should be the same (I would have thought) as when you were getting it on demand, as that also comes through your broadband.  Why watch it 'live' if it is going to be available on the catch up, or is it that you want to record it and keep the copy?  I'm not sure you can do that . . .

Visionman

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

redchiz

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

Hi VM, don't wish to quibble unduly, but where are you getting those numbers from and what do you mean by "Standard TT" and "Sky channel" Boosts? TalkTalk specify a minimum line speed of 3Mbps for YouView generally and 5Mbps in order to take Boost channels.

Visionman

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

Hi Redchiz,
The information I've posted is correct. TT always build in 0.5Mbps headroom. 3Mbps is for on demand content only. not live TV.

A "Standard TT" Boost means anything not Sky. Sky Boosts take 1Mbps more than the standard ones and even then are not guaranteed.

redchiz

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

None the wiser bud, would you care to define, or even better list "Standard" and "Sky" Boosts individually please, this is all news to me.

Richard Lister

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

Thanks for help, I have 2 teenagers complaining about bandwidth constantly so needed to know what hit I take when recording. I could stream on excellent new sky on demand via TT but that's at a prime time for their use of MY bandwidth, Hope BT get superfast near me soon!

Visionman

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

No. And stop taking the #.

Richard Lister

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

Be a handy improvement to get internet channels recorded out of hours and left in your recordings?????

redchiz

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

I hope for Richard's sake you were aiming that ignorant response at me and you were just the victim of bad timing?

Visionman

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

Thanks for help, I have 2 teenagers complaining about bandwidth constantly so needed to know what hit I take when recording. I could stream on excellent new sky on demand via TT but that's at a prime time for their use of MY bandwidth, Hope BT get superfast near me soon!

Your welcome Richard.

redchiz

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

What Visionman knows about TalkTalk could be measured on the fingers of no hands.

Roy

Visionman said:

Hi, Richard. The TalkTalk Boost channels work like this - On Demand content takes no more than 3.5Mbps. Standard TT Boosts take 5.5Mbps and the Sky channel Boosts take 6.5Mbps. Neither TT nor BT will sign people up for internet TV if their line isn't fast enough so you should be fine. Unless your not??? 

But he must have fingers on his hands, redchiz, or he wouldn't be able to handshake his way into the meetings of the secret cabals who hold the unpublished - and unverifiable - information that contradicts the published and public information, such as:-

http://help2.talktalk.co.uk/what-mini...

which bears out your posting above, except TalkTalk do say 'over 5', though whether this means 6 or just 5.001 is not recorded :-)

The magic incantation to dispel misinformation, by the way, is the good old Wikipedia 'Citation please'.

This has the merit of working both ways, though if Visionman does come up with a definitive citation, I guess we still have to then ask TalkTalk which is correct, and which is indeed the misinformation?