So the local ISP is out of DSL ports and has not expanded for 9 months now. My work issues me a mobile phone and they turned on the hotspot feature because I had no Internet. There essentially weren't any data caps because the company's mobile phones all share a big pool of data.
However, it seems like we are soon going to get rid of company issued mobile phones across the board and switch to a stipend. That is going to leave me high and dry for reliable home internet access that doesn't have a data cap.
Seeing as how we only watch TV through streaming services, this is going to hurt...a lot.
The best plan that I can think of is to get a NAS with media server capabilities to use at home and use PlayOn to record our shows and movies at an alternate location with Internet access *cough* my office *cough*. I would then transport the recordings with a high capacity USB drive to my home NAS on a regular basis.
I have my eye on this one https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS216+II but I wanted to get a few other opinions as I've never really messed around in the home server arena. I like this particular one because I can plug the USB drive in the front and press a single button to copy everything to the NAS. It also has hardware media transcoding so things like the PS3 can play a wider variety of file formats and it can support up to three simultaneous video transcodings at a time @1080p.
Thoughts?