The Tablo has been out now for over 6 months, but I haven’t heard anything new on the automatic quality setting for Tablo Connect. It is still listed as “coming soon” after all these months. Is there a plan to implement it anytime soon?
I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago and stayed in a vacation rental home with good internet access. I was able to use the Tablo Connect full quality setting (using 720-normal as my recording quality setting) there, and it worked quite well. I had some intermittent pauses at times on my laptop Chrome browser, but that was all. (My home network is 45 Mpbs download / 5 Mbps upload)
That is quite different from my experience using hotel wi-fi on other trips. If I wasn’t on 500kbps (which looks blocky and ugly), I couldn’t stream without lots of pauses. I haven’t played around with it enough on 3G/4G to see which setting is best.
Tablo Connect is a great built in feature (if you have a subscription) that usually costs extra (like buying a slingbox) or doesn’t support all mobile platforms (like the Tivo Stream) for other DVRs. It does have some limitations like pairing, being highly dependent on bandwidth in home and remote, and using a tuner (if not using full quality).