Mass Effect - HBO or Netflix

I have a WIRED broadband connection... if you can call a 0.50 Mbs connection really broadband.
Firestick for me is not reliable -I do not trust wireless... too unstable... especially in Freelancer, Borderlands 2, The Crew and many others.

Maybe I should have come right and said that I am a very, very, very heavy multi-tasker (got 24GB of ram and right now at 90%) -especially if work related.
Which means that my time watching something via streaming would already be heavy on the internet usage when combined with all the work internet multitasking.
I have tried media-streaming sites and don't really care for only seeing 5 secs of play and a 2 minute wait for just another 5 secs.
So sorry if me liking a trailer that appears on TV and then having to switch over to online to watch said show and then to have the show: start, stop, start, stop...
Makes me forever hate said show and feel slated by a commercial -which is about all I will ever see of said show. 

As to what hardware...
-If and only if I was going to do the above and media-stream (would probably stream two shows at once) it would have to be fiber-optic ... T3 is actually antiquated.
-I would only media-stream if I upgraded the lines from the big city into the house.
Which would have them planting new cables into the ground from the big city to my place (50+miles): $2000 -$2900
This would replace lines that were installed from the early 1990's into modern behemoth holding cable lines -no more phone capacity.
I would then upgrade the connection I have now - a split two-way networked connection -2 computers.
A connection that would require at least 5-6 adapter boxes and at least as many fiber-optic cables for the fiber-optic house reconfigure.
One adapter in and out at each connection point including the hub and each computer: another $600-$900
Then of course upping my connection to true gigabit: 100 Gbs vs current Mbs would be no contest and finally I would have no bottleneck.
That ISP upgrade would up the cost about another $250 a month!
So in total it would require at least $3.5k bare min possibly more hard earned cash and then the extra 250 to enjoy media streaming...  no thanks.

When I would only prefer certain channels and not ALL -I do not care to see no big-bird or Elmo and yet to have that channel be forced on me if I want to get the HBO package -No.
If that makes me silly so be it.
I just hate the inefficiency.

HBO mass effect? yes, please.

Just no Shepard story. Have it be different characters in a different time. That way you don't have to worry about stepping on people's Shepards nor about the reapers. 

Yes, but only if the writers at BioWare are involved with the production and writing. I'm all for producers taking liberties with storylines based on typical movie scripts, but when it comes to projects with actual canon behind them I hate it because they tend to defecate on aspects of the story they don't like and shoehorn in others that nobody asked for.

No. Canon, stay away from my gaming. The ghost of Revan casts a long shadow....

Yeah, that's quite the cautionary tale. I cringe at the mention and I don't even play TOR.

Don't know about 18. At our summer place with a comparable setup I believe our record was 7 separate simultaneous video streams. TV, three iPads, three smartphones; maybe call that six streams since the TV doesn't use the router. It's a very strange living-room experience when we're doing that.




Well, you could do that, sure. But you don't need to. You're making it sound like your preference order is sucky connection > awesome connection > good connection. Am I reading this right?





You're paying for them by watching their commercials, of course. Even with an antenna, nothing's free.

those channels would just turn it into yet another sex/gore/no substance story.

of course i was generalizing , but that's just it, there are more chances a Mass Effect series would end up being the norm rather than the exception. 
 i enjoy some of those fantasy series and take them for what they are... but Mass Effect?  noooooooo....

But seriously go watch them.  I would say now that Rogue One is out (you'll like it if you enjoyed ME2), start with that if you can catch it in theaters still then do the original movies up to The Force Awakens.  If you enjoy them, then go watch the prequels just for extra entertainment.  

 "The norm" meaning "like GoT"?

*shrug* I'll take it.

Mass Effect is already on Netflix under the name "The Expanse".