E-T-H-E-R-N-E-T. Wireless is good but never as reliable as a hard line connection. And if you are with Comcast and using their wireless gateway, stop. Go buy your own modem + router or just get a good router for your wifi. Ballstreams does offer alternate broadcasts when available (not national games), I was a member last year and they give you a choice of what stream to watch.
I'm generally behind the curve on all things technological, but even I have figured out how to get things from the computer to the TV set. Sure, there's a demographic even further behind than me, but they (1) are probably not very profitable to the league anyway, and (2) are shrinking as a population set all the time.
Severe thunderstorm? I've lost signal with Direct TV when it was just cloudy outside. 100mbs internet and your Netflix or HBO Go and it buffers out and downgrades to lower quality? As someone mentioned, ethernet cables and or better router/modem because you shouldn't have any problems with that internet speed.
If this happens, be prepared for data caps on cable / dsl internet providers. They know live sports is just about the only thing keeping their subscribers from dropping cable packages and just going off ala cart internet content.
Unfortunately with ballstreams this would still happen, they are just streaming the TV streams to a PC then sharing.
butterfingers... You need some help or something if you can't get 100 mbp to not lag... Who in the needs that much broad band.
Yeah. This is what I've always suspected, and I assume it's one of the major motivations behind internet regulation legislation.
Hardcore fans will stream or do whatever to get to watch their team. Casual fans aren't taking the time to bother with that. I see that as a big gap in this whole discussion in sports right now.
