Well right, but rare is the ocassion you'll be able to just get IP addresses from one of these folks.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Howard via Af" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 10:30:05 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ESPN3 You don’t need to route the content over that provider. You just need IP addresses from them. We have a block of IP addresses from AT&T that we’ve had forever. Any customers on those addresses can get ESPN3. We advertise those addresses over our other providers also and ESPN3 worked there the last time I checked it as long as I had an AT&T address. I haven’t tried it in about 2 years but I was VERY unimpressed when I tried ESPN3 the last time. The UW Badgers were in a game that was only broadcast on ESPN3 so I gave myself one of the AT&T addresses at home and watched the game. The quality of the picture was horrible. I don’t know if this has changed but ESPN3 wasn’t available on Roku at the time so I was watching it through a PC connected via HDMI to a 47” tv. The connection was limited to 11Mb at the time because of the wireless link from the PC to the router in the house. ESPN3 would run their thing checking the connection speed and play at virtually unwatchable resolution. It was streaming about 2Mb for this lousy picture. The most interesting thing about it was that EVERY commercial would peg the connection at 11Mb and actually be decent video quality. Might have changed since then. My take away from it was that if we “gave” this to customers we would be asking for them to complain. If they call ESPN they are going to tell them that “it’s your ISP’s fault” that the quality sucks. Why even deal with it? We’ve had maybe 10 requests for it over the years and it’s only when there’s some game that a local team is involved in that’s not broadcast anywhere else. James Howard LiteWire Internet Services, Inc. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett via Af Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 9:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ESPN3 Maybe worth getting an upstream connection from one of those companies and routing all requests for ESPN3 over that connection? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Trimmell via Af" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 9:34:35 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ESPN3 Most providers are dealt the ESPN3 option by their upstream provider. If you buy your upstream from ATT then your customers can log into ESPN3 and it will play for them. ATT pays some $500k a year or something of that nature for that option. Drop in the hat for them but for a small WISP that isn't really a bargain. Give away Google Chromecasts with your service or something. If people really want to watch Women's basketball that bad then let them switch. You didn't want them anyways. Andy Trimmell System Engineer Precision Data Solutions, LLC Mooresville, IN 46158 317-831-3000 ext 211 www.pdsconnect.me From: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Brett A Mansfield via Af Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 10:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ESPN3 It's hard not to contribute to that business model when the market I'm in has such a high demand for that. My market has a very high percentage of cord cutters. Less than 10% of my subscribers pay for subscription TV. Top that off with every other ISP in my area offering ESPN3 for free and regardless of whether or not the customers will use it it does count against me when trying to market my service. People seem to buy into this whole free stuff nonsense, even if they don't really care for it. Thank you, Brett A Mansfield On Dec 4, 2014, at 3:44 AM, Jason McKemie via Af < [email protected] > wrote: Don't contribute to that business model. On Wednesday, December 3, 2014, Brett A Mansfield via Af < [email protected] > wrote: I've seen a lot of ISPs and WISPs offering ESPN3 for free now. Nobody can seem to or is willing to tell me how they get that set up. I'd really like to offer that to my customers. Anyone able and willing to tell me how to do that? Thank you, Brett A Mansfield Total Control Panel Login To: [email protected] From: 0000014a15fe7009-4c6eaaab-bde8-4665-a7a0-f410cbcb2391-000...@amazonses.com Remove amazonses.com from my allow list You received this message because the domain amazonses.com is on your allow list.
