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Lavane
Lunatic Member
I haven't yet. I do get 1TB a month with my cable connection. That should be plenty. I have only lost signal from my dish a few times a year for short periods due to snow buildup or hail. Cable around here can be lost for days when some idiot digs up and cuts the fiber cables. Is that $65 using cable, or do you have to use AT&T's DSL? Cause cable is faster.
the skipper
Professional Curmudgeon
I have a friend who swears by it but having satellite Direct TV and finding it doesn't live up to the promises it made, I'm somewhat skeptical. I'll be watching this thread. I'd love for it to work. I would hope it's on demand would be more robust than their satellite sister. That sucks.
pappylon
Active Member
Their basic starts at $35. You will need need a media device for your TV. Firestick is cheapest and works fine. If you watch a lot you will need an internet package that supports your usage. I liked it but no local channels in my area. I've also used Hulu TV and Youtube TV and they are all quite similar.
They have various channel packages. They all have free trials which I suggest. I think streaming is the future. As far as how well they work, I can only say by my own experience. I have fast internet and used a direct connection and all the different providers worked great. Depending on your location, they may or may not have your local channels, which is very convenient.
They have various channel packages. They all have free trials which I suggest. I think streaming is the future. As far as how well they work, I can only say by my own experience. I have fast internet and used a direct connection and all the different providers worked great. Depending on your location, they may or may not have your local channels, which is very convenient.
45rpmspinner
Super Member
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Perhaps you mean 75 mbps? Layer3 touts that it can deliver HD at far lower speeds.
I'm shocked when I see how crappy service is for some.
100 mbps is the very least service I can get.
As an introductory offer, $300 bought 7 years at that speed when Google Fiber moved in.
I currently pay $70 a month for unlimited data at 1000 mbps download/upload.
And the future is upon us. Every person I know streams but my father. We have crappy internet and stream about 90% of our watching.
DaveVoorhis
Addicted Member
Yup. Last time I checked about a year ago, the over-the-air antenna/aerial on the roof had failed and wasn't delivering a usable signal any more. I don't know when that happened. We've still got a working freesat dish, but I can't remember the last time we used it.
The intertubes are the fyooture!
+48V
hi-fi or die
Most if not all fiber connections are symmetrical. Yeehaw, gigabit.
Erik Tracy
Everyone's happy when the wizard walks by
Yes. I subscribe to the basic DirecTV Now streaming package.
I like it via Roku and will save me a boatload of money when I cut cable from Wrectum.
I just got my cheapy OTA antenna up and can now get local stations in the upstairs bedroom.
My plan is to get an HDHomerun OTA to wireless adapter so that we can get OTA channels via wifi in the house to all rooms.
This will fill the gap in local channels I don't get with DirecTV Now (or in the event that Wrectum internet goes down).
The picture quality with DirecTV Now is consistently better than Wrectum, which macroblocks on some channels.
I like it via Roku and will save me a boatload of money when I cut cable from Wrectum.
I just got my cheapy OTA antenna up and can now get local stations in the upstairs bedroom.
My plan is to get an HDHomerun OTA to wireless adapter so that we can get OTA channels via wifi in the house to all rooms.
This will fill the gap in local channels I don't get with DirecTV Now (or in the event that Wrectum internet goes down).
The picture quality with DirecTV Now is consistently better than Wrectum, which macroblocks on some channels.
45rpmspinner
Super Member
Oops, that's what I get for working and typing on AK at the same time. 75mbps, yes. I have 150 mbps, but when installing Layer3 at the time they wanted 75 at minimum if possible. Still Layer3 was a little wonky at the time as I went against my code of not being an earlier adopter.
Where I live in Wheaton, IL and it goes block to block and side of the street, there is little competition for high speed internet.
Poultrygeist
Lunatic Member
A good option for cable cutters: Channel Master Stream+
Yup. Last time I checked about a year ago, the over-the-air antenna/aerial on the roof had failed and wasn't delivering a usable signal any more. I don't know when that happened. We've still got a working freesat dish, but I can't remember the last time we used it.
The intertubes are the fyooture!
You can still use over the air antenna's, in fact I think a while back they made a law that requires some over the air broadcasting. But you have to have a digital tuner for your TV to work with an antenna. All the over the air broadcast are now digital so the old analogue TV's won't work unless you get a decoder, which are quite cheap. I have a house in the country that I only visit on occasions and I don't need more monthly bills for a place I don't live in, I use a pair of rabbit ears, and get a number of channels, ME TV, a couple of news and weather channels, PBS channel and a few others mostly ones that play older reruns. It is fine if you don't watch TV much.
Poultrygeist
Lunatic Member
The Channel Master Stream + shown above is one of the few streamers with a built-in OTA tuner that connects to you antenna and an excellent one it is. It records and gives a program schedule but unlike many others it's free and requires no subscription.
DaveVoorhis
Addicted Member
In theory I could do that, if my aerial/antenna wasn't broken. It has an inline preamplifier (we live in a marginal reception area) with a first-stage aerial-mounted preamp that appears to have failed. I don't feel like risking my neck to climb up the roof -- covered in pigeon poop from the pigeons roosting on the aerial -- to fix it.
Here in the UK, it's over-the-air broadcasting is digital only, and it used to work with our digital TVs until the aerial died.
But it doesn't matter; Netflix and Amazon Prime and BBC iPlayer and the various channels' online offerings are superior to any over-the-air offering, particularly because we can choose what to watch and when.
Pervasive high-speed Internet is inevitable. Once that happens, there will be no reason for over-the-air TV broadcasts of any kind.
The switch to digital OTA broadcasting improved the reception at the house I sold 2 yrs ago. Went from 3 local stations with crappy signals to 13 with prefect pictures. Only network programming we really watch is local news the rest is streaming for the reasons you mention Dave.
