A bit off track from the original discussion, but not getting many suggestions from a MN Fishing Forum I posted to. I know this board is much more active and knowledgeable to these types of discussions.
We have a cabin on an island in far Northern MN which is very remote, but many places in the area do have Dish/Direct TV to handle their tv viewing. We would prefer not to go this route, but might have to. We have Verizon and AT and T cell phone coverage, usually a decent 1-2 bars of strength. Seems as though over Holiday weekends when the lake is more crowded our coverage lacks a bit. We used to have a cabin rule of no TV here, but as the kids have gotten older and it's often times just my wife and I, we get tired of all the board games, and well, simply staring at each other, thus we have started streaming tv though our laptop some evenings.
We use our iphones as personal hotspots to capture WiFi on our laptop and connect an older, larger external computer screen to have a larger viewing area. We use our XFinity account to watch the news, taped shows, sports, etc. We have been watching over the last few days and our buffering (dot-dot-dot pauses) has been really annoying, usually every minute or two and then comes back for a minute or two.....perhaps this is due to the combination of fairly low signal strength from phone (1-2 bars) and also maybe the population of folks using the cell towers, especially on busy weekends such as Memorial Day.
I am curious what others might do or suggest in our situation to get better tv and/or streaming results? Would prefer not to do a Direct TV/Dish or some other expensive service as we really don't watch a ton of tv Up North, but would prefer to investigate how we could improve our options and reliability
Thanks for any insight as I have learned over the years, the folks on the board are much smarter than I am!
