My wife and I have 3 kids and both work from home in IT. I want the additional bandwidth as we can have up to 20 devices connected at one time.
Finally cutting the cord..
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Similar to my situation. But do you know if you actually need the extra bandwidth? That's what I'm saying. If you tried regular service and it didn't work then fine, if extra bandwidth solves the problem. ISPs will let you upgrade your plan at any time so to not at least try it seems crazy to me.
Yes I actually do need it and cannot stand buffering which rarely occurs in my house. I also installed a mesh network as my upstairs was lacking a strong enough signal. I stream 4 phones, 3-5 TV’s, X box, laptops, Alexa....etc. I can dial up bandwidth on weekend in particular as I take my kids phones Sunday night through Friday afternoon. Appreciate you looking out but I’m good there.
I really am just curious what you are paying for Internet. I can’t get Comcast any cheaper tha $89. Add in a streaming service like YouTube and it still comes out to $140. Enlighten how people are saving money. Thanks. Also, I should add that I have Xfinity Mobile and pay only $3.80 a month for everything and you have to have Comcast to get Xfinity Mobile. Tough to give up that savings.
I was paying 50 already for my internet when I had DirectTV. So that was 200 there. Now I pay 80 for AT&T as my ISP and 50 for YouTube TV. So that is 70 dollars less a month. Prices will vary by provider and region, but hopefully you can see the savings. I got tired of dealing with the price hikes and paying for boxes and BS services. I haven’t looked back once since I did this about 2-3 years ago now.
You only need one box for cable service. You can use their app for your other TVs so you have a direct cable connection to one box/TV and then stream to all your other TVs (via Roku or anything else that can run apps). I did this before I cut cable out completely and it worked fine. But it was still cheaper to cut cable out altogether.
If you had DirecTV I don't know how that works. Seems to me they have always been a lot more restrictive. IIRC you can use an app to stream it but only on 'devices' and not TVs. Just means they want to require boxes for multiple TVs instead of just allowing you to stream on a TV with an app.
Even DirectTV offered streaming when I switched but it was too late for me. I’m setup just fine.
It seems like the built-in smart tv interfaces are not consistently updated so I just went roku on each tv. That works much better for me.
Yes. Ironically, Smart TVs are dumb. You are much better off getting a dedicated device for streaming because the apps will be kept up-to-date much longer, if not 'forever'. I'm sure old devices that Roku et al produce will not be updated forever but it will be much longer before they are unsupported. From what I've read about apps on smart TVs, they are pretty much all one-offs so you can understand why they are not updated past a couple years after you bought the TV.
You're even better off using apps on something like a blu ray player because even if they eventually go unsupported you are much more likely to buy a new BD player than a new TV over time.
They offer streaming but as I recall, and like I said before, only to 'devices' not named TVs. If you want to watch DirecTV on more than one TV in your house, they required a box for each one. They may have changed that since I last looked, it has been awhile since I looked that up.
That policy alone would make me leave DirecTV.
no way ... people still buy blue ray players? why? .... and in the future, I doubt it (last blueray player I bought was 6-7 years ago, since then I have bought 3 TV's)
I'm not sure you followed along this thread or what I have said. Thanks for the heads up on the company I left for the reasons I left.
Same issue here. I watch a lot of South Park and YTTV doesn't have Comedy Central, nor do some of the other streaming services. I also watch NFL Network and Redzone and those can also be tough to find. For now I'm sticking with cable but am researching my options, I just might have to pay for more than one service to get what I'm looking for and then it becomes a pricing game.
Wow. You think *I* didn't follow it? You're hilarious. It's your right to pay too much for something, congratulations on exercising it. Unbelievable.
the hilarious thing is someone buying a Blueray player in 2020
Sharing this as an fyi since you brought up south park:
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/south-park-stream-exclusively-hbo-max-1203387212/
"Comedy Central’s “South Park” will have a new home online as of June 2020. HBO Max, the WarnerMedia-backed direct-to-consumer service that debuts in May, has won the battle for exclusive streaming rights in the U.S. to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s animated satire, which is currently hosted on Disney-owned Hulu. South Park Digital Studios, a joint venture between Viacom, Parker and Stone, inked the multi-year licensing deal, which covers all 23 seasons plus three new seasons, which will appear on HBO Max 24 hours after the episode first airs on Viacom’s Comedy Central."
So after June 2020 what you could conceivably do is go with YTTV, then pick up HBO Max for $15 and watch the new season of SP whenever it airs then drop HBO Max afterward. Just tossing it out there.
The hilarious thing is people paying way too much than they have to. Congratulations, you are one of the sheep herd.
Hard wire as many devices as you can. This isn't always possible in older homes that lack Ethernet cabling though. If you don't have whole home cabling, get yourself a tri-band mesh Wifi system. If you can afford a system that is Wifi-6 compliant, you won't be losing any speed by missing out on hard wired connections.
Not sure if you’re just stupid or you’re actively trying to be an A-hole. Either way I don’t care. You haven’t helped anyone in this thread.
I just switched to Verizon for $39.99 per month for internet, no strings attached. Add yttv at $50 per month and I am saving a lot of money
Astonishing how clueless you and others are. And if you didn't care, you wouldn't reply. Do whatever you want, I don't care. I don't know why you participate in a message board when you have your mind made up and you don't want to hear anything that doesn't agree with your own opinion not based on facts. So you turn it into some argumentative thing. You're pitiful.
I don't think it's me and others....it seems like it is just you. Well I guess it was a bit of both to my other question for you. I cut the cord years ago....so yeah my mind is made up and I know what I need for bandwidth. Somehow you think I was asking you for advice somewhere along the way.....I wasn't.
Dude, I was trying to help. The initial response was related to paying for higher speed Internet and if you actually need it. As usual, it's not even worth trying to help people because they already have their mind made up and don't want any advice that is opposed to their uninformed opinion, based on what was posted here. Lesson learned, I won't try to interject any help on this board when people don't even want to consider something that has some factual basis yet contradicts their own opinion.
And Jesus, you really made a big leap there "I was asking your advice".
Honestly have no 100% certain answer to that because I don’t know who owns the rights on that, but my guess is that if the site has existed while Hulu has owned the rights that HBO just bought then it’s likely the site will still have the episodes.
My original response to the original post.
Then in response to what I was paying.
Now you can stop replying to me. Thanks and have a wonderful day snowflake.
On another subject, how do you like your OLED? Every time I walk into a store and see one, I feel like I can just stick my hand in the monitor and grab whatever is there.
You're such a dick. Snowflake. You don't have any friends, do you? You think everything you think is just right, just truth, and nothing anyone else says says has any merit. Nothing anyone else says can possibly true if it doesn't agree with an asshole like you. What a miserable existence you have.
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You're nothing but a dick.temper, temper snowflake. Hugs and kisses to you!!!! You’re an angry little troll.
I am stuck at around $135 with free Showtime. As I said, Xfinity Mobile is basically free since I pay only the taxes.
I wouldn't bail then if i were you if you're satisfied with Xfinitiy and that includes your Internet service. I got tired of going back to Direct TV and haggling with them every year as they just bump it up $20-$30 after their "deal" runs out. Then you had to threaten to leave to get a deal. The only reason I was with DirectTV to be honest was for sports and YouTubeTV has me covered there. I watch more stuff on NetFlix, YouTube, and Amazon than regular TV when I'm not watching sports.
I hear you. I research it every year when the time comes up to re-negotiate. Probably some day, but not yet.
.....close the program? It automatically saves where you left off.
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