Monsoon Multimedia Vulkano Flow

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 4 reviews of Monsoon Multimedia Vulkano Flow. The average rating for this product is 3.3/5, compared to an average rating of 4.2/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Reviewers really like the design, but opinions about the price and usability are mixed.

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Expert review by : Yardena Arar (pcworld.com)

Vulkano Flow: A Capable Sub-$100 HDTV Place-Shifter With Direct-to-Mobile Recording, Too

If you've ever spent any time channel surfing in a hotel room, chances are you'll immediately see the appeal of place-shifting technology, which allows you to watch your home TV programs remotely by streaming them over the Internet to a PC, Mac, or...

Watch your home HDTV content on any PC, Mac, iPad, or smartphone with a decent broadband hookup ; 100 device supports live, recorded, and on-demand programs ; Control with a virtual remote

Can only stream analog output from your set-top box; no 5.1 or 7.1 audio support ; Remote control suffers from serious lag; limited DVR functionality

For about $100, with no service charges, the Vulkano Flow lets you watch pretty good versions of any live, recorded, or on-demand show you could watch at home--from any PC, Mac, iPad, or smartphone with a decent broadband connection, regardless of...

Jul, 2011

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Expert review by : John Schettino (the-gadgeteer.com)

Monsoon Multimedia Vulkano Flow Review

The Monsoon Multimedia Vulkano Flow is the latest version of the Vulkano product line, and represents a simplification of the feature set to focus on “place shifting” (streaming) of live television while greatly simplifying the setup of the device and...

Simple (for this class of device) setup. Excellent video quality for "on the fly" encoding. Ability to time shift/record live TV. Low cost for this class of device

Per-mobile-client cost, only one client at a time can connect to the Flow

Mar, 2011

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Decent TV streaming solution

Your Lava Flow will need TCP 49177 and TCP & UDP 56123 assigned to the IP of your Lava. Check for other program conflicts first as you might end up rendering your remote PC program useless in order to use your Lava flow. If this is Greek to you then...

Installation is as easy as installing your cable box. Configuration is another story. You can download their install guide before buying if needed. For most users it’ll be a simple and easy configuration as Vulkano tried to automate every step to...

Upon hookup the PC software couldn’t find my Vulkano Flo despite the fact that I was able to ping it. Simple reboot of the device fixed it. I wanted to be able to hit my FIOS 35/35 static IP for watching streaming but have to utilize a Vulkano account...

May, 2012

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Monsoon Vulkano Flow

Looks slick

Regardless of what it says on the box, after HOURS of troubleshooting with overseas tech support (not always very easy to understand...), and a week later, I finally got out of them that the device OS does not play nicely with Mac OS X 10.7.3 AND they...

Mar, 2012

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