For CES this year I purchased into the AT&T tethering program for my BlackBerry Bold and purchased a Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 for bringing live content from the show. I was thinking I could stream the press conferences and all that good stuff and since many of the press conferences are in areas with no WiFi service or really expensive WiFi service I figured this would be the way to go.
The speeds look decent through my phone:
Anyone ever done something like this before?
Anyone Used an AT&T Phone For Video Streaming Via Tethering?
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so far no good... I can't get video to play smooth at all using USTREAM.TV as a service. Ugh... This might have been a waste of hours and ~$150...
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Call me dumb but is this similar to using my Blackberry via a USB cable and connecting to Sprint's wireless network? Because if it is then the service is dismal.
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It will be "similar" but we will have to assume Nate has full 3g coverage in the area. AT&T does have the best bandwidth but service can be a bit spotty here and there. The big problem with tethering is going to be the dismal latency. But still, those speeds look very good and I don't see why you would have a problem. I don't know much about ustream.tv but can you just put a large buffer on it to factor in the fluctuations?Major_A wrote:Call me dumb but is this similar to using my Blackberry via a USB cable and connecting to Sprint's wireless network? Because if it is then the service is dismal.
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Re: Anyone Used an AT&T Phone For Video Streaming Via Tethering?
Using my Fuze (via custom winmo 6.5 rom) I got about 2.9 down 0.56 up with 4 bars inside the house. However it won't sustain those speeds and quickly slowed to a crawl with follow up testing. I have steamed Hulu HD in the past, but its not up to it tonight. Maybe there is too much demand, or perhaps AT&T is throttling the connection.
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Re: Anyone Used an AT&T Phone For Video Streaming Via Tethering?
upload speed looks awfully low. that is like 384kbps. I know even with 768kbps on verizon dsl I still have problems even with lower resolution video through Skype sometimes. I want to try the hi-res 720p option in Skype, but i think it will be useless without at least 2mbps up speed.
I agree with the buffer - cant you buffer a LOT of it and then stream? It wont be true live coverage, but it would be better than nothing. I usually let all videos online buffer at least halfway before i play them just in case I drop bandwidth for some reason.
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yea, we will just say "spotty" and laugh to ourselves ;)ckthecerealkiller wrote:It will be "similar" but we will have to assume Nate has full 3g coverage in the area. AT&T does have the best bandwidth but service can be a bit spotty here and there. The big problem with tethering is going to be the dismal latency. But still, those speeds look very good and I don't see why you would have a problem. I don't know much about ustream.tv but can you just put a large buffer on it to factor in the fluctuations?
I agree with the buffer - cant you buffer a LOT of it and then stream? It wont be true live coverage, but it would be better than nothing. I usually let all videos online buffer at least halfway before i play them just in case I drop bandwidth for some reason.
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Re: Anyone Used an AT&T Phone For Video Streaming Via Tethering?
With significant buffering this might as well work. I really hope so- live coverage would be cool.