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!