My Tablo must have had issues connecting last night and it offered up offline mode so I could catch Sunday Night Football.
Thanks Tablo!! Love this.
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Good to hear.
All day yesterday my Tablo was going in and out of online/offline. Was very annoying. I do not think Tablo/Scripps servers can handle the bandwidth need to handle the customer load.
My legacy Tablo had no issues.
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Tablo stated that the Gen4 will enter offline mode when a connection to the servers can’t be made. Wouldn’t this also mean that the user’s network could be at fault and not the Tablo servers?
I have found that the ‘connection check,’ for the lack of a better term, is a bit too picky. A couple times a week mine will prompt me to enable offline mode, but if I just click the BACK button on my Roku it almost always enters the Tablo app normally.
Still, I am glad that offline mode is available as an option. It was a long-needed feature.
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I wonder if it checks for latency… ping times or something.
Since the feature has been enabled… it has only popped up 2 times for me. During 2 bad storms. I have dual wans… Wan1 was dipping while Wan2 was picking it up. Thats when the offline mode kicked in.
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Understandable, but if it was my network then why did everything else work. Netflix, Hulu, my Mac Mini. Like KGBnut stated “will prompt me to enable offline mode, but if I just click the BACK button on my Roku it almost always enters the Tablo app normally”. This happened 5+ times on Sunday, not a couple of times a week.
I an agree it’s a good thing, but seems to be happening too much. Getting frustrated…I know technology is wonky but Sunday’s debacle was frustrating.
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It may not be fair to compare Tablo to those other apps. I would think Tablo requires greater bandwidth/lower latency than apps like Hulu or Netflix to run smoothly because it’s actually running on your network. Those other apps are a feed only and are very simple, efficient, and optimized for your viewing pleasure.
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Been happening almost daily with me now!
I see the new offline mode screen almost every time I enter the Tablo app from my Sony Bravia Google TV. It appears for a few seconds, then clears on its own, and then it behaves normally. Seems like it “triggers” too easily before Tablo has a chance to get the initial response from the server.
My Google TV (Android) reports internet speed tests in excess of 500mbps up and down. I watch full 4k movies with the latest sound formats from Sony Bravia Core. My gateway reports data rates for some of those movies well in excess of 100mbps. If Tablo is too quick on the “server check trigger” on my setup, it’s too quick on the trigger.
I love the new (and long overdue) offline mode. It just seems like a few minor adjustments are in order.
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Good point on the server check timeout. We’re seeing it too, maybe once a day. Not enough to be a worry.
I think classic rock guy got it right about the trigger/timeout to get verify the internet connection. I understand that comparison to Tablo (hardware) and Netflix (application) but was trying to say that I Know my network can handle the demand of both hardware and software, so it has to be something on Tablo’s server side that is causing the latency. And if they are not allowing enough time to connect and verify…hence what classicrokguy implies: maybe the handshake time needs to be bumped up or down to give each home network to validate.
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