The integration with Fritz!Repeaters has also been an awesome experience for me, massively simplifying my wifi setup without compromising on features or coverage of my home. I've used the same method to cast music that I can't find on Spotify to my wifi-enabled sound systems. Personally, I've been very happy by its ability to function as a media server and NAS, as this has allowed me to use BubbleUPnP to cast any video on the hard drive attached to my Fritzbox to my Chromecasts. Fritzbox offers not only a far more user-friendly way to manage your network, but it also offers some great features. It's also possible that some day I'll just connect a PC to the TV, so I suppose I'd be interested in hearing recommendations for controlling media playback on a PC from an Android phone.Īs a former ISP customer service agent (though admittedly DSL/fiber, not cable): have you contacted your ISP about your connection? A dropping connection doesn't necessarily have to be the fault of the modem, it can also be a problem with the connection. It does however work really well for streaming video from my server to my phone. It would work pretty well for a bit, then the chromecast control would stop working, and not work until I restarted my phone. I also tried VLC for Android and it did not work very well for streaming to the chromecast, at least when I first tried it about a year ago. * saving progress: it might be able to do this if you stick to one playlist, but if you are watching two different series of videos, it seems to clear the playlist. if I mishear something, I'd want to rewind 5-10 seconds, if I end up getting distracted then I might want to rewind 2 minutes or more) * easy rewind: it has buttons to rewind/fast forward 30 seconds, but sometimes that's too much or too little for me (e.g.

I've tried BubbleUPnP ( Google Play link) and it works pretty well, but it is missing the two things I mentioned:

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