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I just received a new Apple TV 64G as a gift. I want to use my new Apple TV and my iPhone 5s while in my RV to stream Netflix (without any WIFI). However, I am one of those individuals who is still grandfathered into unlimited data through ATT, and therefore using my phone as a hotspot is disabled by ATT (so using my phone as a hotspot is not an option). I have been searching the Internet, and have not seen anything promising... Before I actually open the Apple TV package (keeping my option of returning the gift), I am trying to determine if there is any confirmed solution to the "streaming with no wifi/no hotspot" problem? This was my reason wanting the Apple TV.
I am hoping for a resolution that will allow me to use just the Apple TV and my iPhome 5s, however, I have seen suggestions about using a router to simulate a WIFI that is connected to nothing.... Is this a workable solution? Thank you.
I travel in my camper and have unlimited data also and I use my iPhone/iPad to stream and just connect with a dongle direct to the TV - about a 20 foot cable I can sit almost anywhere in the camper and control the screen. Unfortunately the ATV has been designed and marketed as a streaming device I don't think we'll see the ATV work without a network connection...
The Apple TV 4 is very much built around the internet, it needs an internet connection every time it is turned on (although it may in cases be subsequently turned off). It would be extremely difficult to use it in your situation, if indeed you were able to use it at all. I wouldn't take the idea any further if I were you.
I have the ATT grandfathered plan as well and the 64GB ATV4, an Airport Express and an iPhone6S and was going to try and make your idea work to see if it would. It sounded great until I thought about it more. I believe the flaw is the idea that you could set up a network, connect the iPhone, ATV4 and AirPlay Netflix to the ATV. Once you direct the iPhone to connect to the WiFi, it looses its cellular data connection and does not bridge one network to the other.
I do not think it is a technical problem for Apple, it's more of an emotional one. If they did, they would have some angry carriers and cable companies. The carrier would not get the hotspot fee and many cable carriers would loose the business. The customers would love it!
I think Protodd has the cheapest solution and in a trailer or rv the cable should fill your requirements to watch Netflix on the big screen. I bet it will be alot more reliable and easier to maintain and the best part is you use unlimited data and it does not cost you a penny more.
I'll have to look into the dongle/hdmi cable option... I honestly was not aware that this was an option... So, you are saying that with the dongle, I can see on the TV exactly what is on my phone screen? Apparently I have been WAY over-thinking this.
I am currently on a trip and I want to activate the Netflix offer to enjoy my trip at night and I have searched and found that Virgin TV should be used so I want to activate this offer without needing it and I have mentioned the reason that I am on a trip and I am completely away from home
- Enter your email address and create your password
If you're not a Virgin Media Customer, then you would need to sign up using Netflix's standard process on their website.
Cheers,
I did what did you tell me but i didnt find the netflix banner as you say , i enter at my laptop to virigin media login and i entered but i didnt find netflix banner an di try other thing and it is :
Quicken help was no good on this subject. I tried Netflix and they thought Quicken was a streaming app??? Anyway, I want to put ALL my bills in ebiller no matter that I pay myself or they are auto deducted as I need to make a budget. I am new to Quicken for Mac so I assume I have to put in all my bills thru E-billing so I can set up budget - or maybe not? If I can never get these to sync after I try each company to see if anyone even knows what Quicken is maybe I should set them up all as Manual and put in the amount as they are all the same amount every month? If anyone has any ideas on what to do, greatly appreciated.
In order to use E billing you need to either be paying for a Premier subscription to use Quicken's bill pay service, or your bank has to support Direct Connect with Bill Pay (which few banks do). Without E billing, you can still set up scheduled payments on the Bills & Income tab but you'll have to manage them yourself.
So, for creating a budget in Quicken Mac, you have to enter your projected income and expenses in the categories you want to track in your budget. then the budget will compare your projections against actual income and expenses as the year goes along. This gets easier in future years, because you can tell Quicken to create next year's budget as either a copy of the current year's budget or using the current year's actual as next year's budget numbers, and then tweak things however you want.
It takes some time to create a budget initially, but don't let it overwhelm you. You may want to start with the categories that account for most of your income and expenses and ignore, at least for the start, categories which have a small impact. It also depends on what you want together from your budget. For instance are you interested in the bottom line of all income and expenses? Then you need to budget and track all income and expenses. But some people budget for only what they consider their discretionary spending, to make sure they're staying in line in those categories, without building a complete budget for everything.
Wow @jacobs I'm now even more overwhelmed, but in a good way. I am wondering if I bit off more than I can chew with Quicken. I need to create a monthly (actually bi-weekly) budget. I put all the bills I could in Bills and Income. I was only trying to connect them with the bank or biller just to get the new amount to auto enter. Every month a credit card will be a different amount for instance so for budgeting I thought that would be wise. Now all the four who won't connect are the same amount monthly thankfully. I saw where I can mark "paid". I also daily auto update everything to sync that is. I am used to Mint, then again very loosely with budgeting. I created a spreadsheet as I have to see what has to be paid on one paycheck and then what the next paycheck (or what I can stretch). I guess I can enter those four that won't sync as Manual as I did my exterminator, etc. and then at least all are in the Billing and Income section. Now will have to read up about how to do a budget - ugh! I tried finding easy to follow videos on YouTube but they are all for Windows. Do you know where to find videos of all this stuff on a Mac?
@Jon thanks - I maybe misspoke in that I wanted EBiller not to send bills or anything, I do that myself except on a few I am forced to set on auto pay. I don't like auto pay generally. I thought again that I had to put them all in Bills & Income and connect to the institutions so they'd all pull up the most recent bills so that could help in the budgeting process. Who knows about budgeting I feel overwhelmed. I can just add those four that won't sync as manual anyway as 3 are auto pay and amounts don't change and Spectrum is same monthly, but not autopay. Thanks.
I just did a little searching and found this short video from Quicken Support. It's showing a version of Quicken Mac that's a few years old, but the budget features have barely changed since this version, so the video is accurate. It's a good start on how to construct a budget in Quicken Mac:
As the guy on the video says, it looks a little daunting when you create and click on Edit in a budget. So it may help to click categories and eliminate those you don't use, or any you don't need to include in your budget. Then start building your budget. Pick the first expense category. Decide if there's a fixed amount you want to budget every month, or an amount every quarter, or once a year. If you have any reports from Mint of your actual spending last year, use those as a basis for your budget for this year. When you click in a cell for January and type a value, a pop-up menu appears which lets you do things like copy that amount to all 12 months, or at various intervals. For instance, if you know you want to budget $50 a week for groceries, type 50 and then select to Fill Forward with the "50 per week" option, and Quicken will calculate that that's 216.67 per month, and fill that in every month. Once you play around with it a little, I think you'll see it's pretty easy to set up a budget. The hard part, of course, is figuring out what your budget should be! After you fill out all your income and expenses, you may discover your budget shows you're spending too much, so you can go back to the drawing board and find categories to reduce your budget until you get it where you want it.
@Jacob thank you SO much for your incredible details to help this newbie along! I've taught myself every software I've ever learned from the beginning of computers until now, so I am not going to let Quicken get the best of me. You obviously are well versed in all of this and the best is reading instructions and watching videos instead of my usual just jump in and try to figure it out! Thanks again!!!
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