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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 11:36:57 GMT -5
For Us anyways, Broadband is working very well and not up in the CLOUDS when it comes to price.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 13:07:58 GMT -5
BTW ... Just back from East Central Fl, brought back with me a Flat Screen TV I gave grandaughter for her Dorm Rm, 1st yr at UCF, she has not used it for at least 18 months now, so with her approval she donated it back to me, for my office, and I just ordered a 4th Amazon Fire Stick 4 for my pleasure.
My Office AKA The Man Cave, will be complete in a few days with the addittion of great TV waves from all over the world here by me Lappytop !!!
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 11, 2019 20:24:43 GMT -5
Had a couple of momentary Internet dropouts this afternoon. My main computer has a wireless mobile broadband card in it, and it failed over to cellular data. Probably wouldn't have been aware of it failing over except I get a message from Windows that it's switched to a metered connection. Actually, the thing that's metered is the Wi-Fi (with a 1024 GB monthly cap, the four of us will rack up about 700 GB).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2019 6:56:08 GMT -5
You have to be in TOP of those things not to go over
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 12, 2019 13:04:32 GMT -5
You have to be in TOP of those things not to go over We would probably go over if all of our entertainment was traditional streaming but then most of it comes from a Comcast hybrid cable replacement service. It's a combination of the best of both worlds. And it's more flexible than traditional cable, but we have all the channel packs except the Latino one and we don't have any premium channels like HBO.
We got a message one month about ten hours from the end of the month that said we'd used 90% of the 1024 GB cap. You also get a grace period for two months of a rolling twelve months. Of course, if you're a streaming addict, you can get service with no caps for an additional $50 a month.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2019 13:16:17 GMT -5
Cool, if for any reason I am in the Market for other OPTIONS in the Future I will ck and see what COMCAST can do for me here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 9:03:36 GMT -5
I moved one of the Fire Sticks to my Office, and it's working great. When The eBay one arrives (The Newer 4K) I will put it in my bedroom...Moo modern, with more memory and faster.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 19, 2019 17:44:02 GMT -5
My Comcast went through a modem reset during the nine o'clock FOX 26 news. Lost both broadband and streaming. Got up in the living room, moved to the business room, and by that time the modem had reset.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 14:35:32 GMT -5
All 4 Fire Sticks working accordingly to my plans....Nice very small investment for all the free entertainment that I am getting now.
The ATT U Verse Internet Access has been behaving really good in the last few months, and of course that is mandatory for great streaming results.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2019 8:17:28 GMT -5
Told a brother in law in S America how to cut the cord.. He bought an Amazon FireStick and it's working really good for him, extremelly happy with my advice.
We comunicate with our Smart Phone for free with What'sApp
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 31, 2019 19:02:36 GMT -5
Doing my investing due diligence and reading the Comcast Form 10-K. They said in 2018 that everything but their traditional cable TV service was growing. They've got about 25 million residential Internet customers and only about 20 million residential video customers.
Except they've now decided to get into streaming video. Other than a few occasional glitches, they do that well. I didn't know that, in most areas, they're IPTV over coax now and not traditional RF signal transmission. Definitely not your grandpa's cable system (except it keeps the Houston-area channel numbers from their legacy service).
I started out with their Internet and DirecTV NOW as a cable replacement service. After a few weeks, they came out with Instant TV (their cable replacement service). I took advantage of their free month of basic service, then I decided to keep Instant TV and get rid of DirecTV NOW. Given how AT&T is severely slashing the channel selection on DirecTV NOW and raising the price, it looks like I did the right move to go to Instant TV.
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Post by edindetroit on Apr 1, 2019 11:59:24 GMT -5
Doing my investing due diligence and reading the Comcast Form 10-K. They said in 2018 that everything but their traditional cable TV service was growing. They've got about 25 million residential Internet customers and only about 20 million residential video customers.
Except they've now decided to get into streaming video. Other than a few occasional glitches, they do that well. I didn't know that, in most areas, they're IPTV over coax now and not traditional RF signal transmission. Definitely not your grandpa's cable system (except it keeps the Houston-area channel numbers from their legacy service).
I started out with their Internet and DirecTV NOW as a cable replacement service. After a few weeks, they came out with Instant TV (their cable replacement service). I took advantage of their free month of basic service, then I decided to keep Instant TV and get rid of DirecTV NOW. Given how AT&T is severely slashing the channel selection on DirecTV NOW and raising the price, it looks like I did the right move to go to Instant TV.
Yikes! Just looked into this and for here they want $70 a month for internet and DirectTV NOW. That and you have to sign a one year contract no thanks! I'll stick with my slower fiber ISP and monthly billing.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Apr 17, 2019 20:40:21 GMT -5
Had a few-minute glitch this afternoon in the three o'clock hour. Probably the modem reset itself, didn't walk in the living room to check.
Today, I've been online on something (either streaming TV, Internet, or both at the same time) since the five o'clock hour in the morning. I looked at our Internet use and we used it for something the past 24 hours. That said, my "go to sleep music" source is SiriusXM At Home. I'm one of their beta testers. Only problem I've found was I couldn't access a channel (they told me what to try) that I wasn't subscribed to.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Apr 20, 2019 17:23:00 GMT -5
The boys were whining that the PlayStation didn't work. Turns out I had to reset the connection from the Comcast end. Didn't need to call Tech Support, I figured out how to reset it. It wasn't rocket science.
Now, I'm going to have to watch "The Ten Commandments" (my favorite movie of all time) in the business room. It's a very long movie, even after editing out the slow parts. Goes from 6:00 PM to 10:44 PM with only a few commercial breaks. I'm planning to stream it to my ThinkPad and project it on the TV. Geeks sometimes don't use the obvious method to do things, but if I stream it to the ThinkPad I can put it on a browser tab and click away during commercial breaks (I still get the sound of the commercials, but I can type!).
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Apr 28, 2019 21:02:49 GMT -5
Just checked to see how close we have gotten to the Comcast terabyte data cap in April.
No problems. We are 494 GB under it with slightly more than two days to go.
We're always streaming something according to Comcast's data usage graph. Probably me in the bedroom sleeping to SiriusXM At Home.
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