Ed Greshko wrote:
If you are using an application which is chromecast enabled, such as
NetFlix or many of the chromecast enabled Android apps, then yes the
traffic will be switched/configured to come from the source and go
directly to the chromecast dongle.
Yes, it seems more complicated than I thought;
I found when I started casting from my Android phone
I could switch off the phone and the cast continued,
so it must be going directly from router to TV.
In fact I had to switch off the TV to break the connection.
But this was using a filmon app on the phone
which I'm sure is chromecast-enabled as you say.
So the difference in quality between Fedora-casting and Windows-casting
may arise from different chromecast plugins for google chrome?
But in both cases I am able to break the connection from the laptop.
This is the reason I can't cast Netflix from my Android Tablet to
my TV.
While my tablet is using a DNS proxy to redirect traffic to my VPN
provider when casting the Netflix app notifies Netflix to switch but in
the process my real IP address is exposed and Netflix then "knows" I'm not
in the US. (I have a Roku to, so no worries...and there are other ways I
could use the chromecast if I wanted to take a few extra steps).
That's interesting, and relevant in my case as I thought of subscribing
to a VPN server in the UK as most UK online TV services
seem to be restricted to users believed to be in the UK.
> I suspect my broadband speed (in central Italy) of 6.6 Mbps
> is on the borderline for this use, though that may be nonsense.
Oh, BTW, I just got my bill and I actually have 20Mb/s download
speed.
Can you tell from your bill? Mine says "up to 40Mb/s",
but when I asked my ISP said he was surprised my speed was so high!
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Timothy Murphy
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School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin