Posted by kcm.MN on February 11, 2018 at 09:30:06 from (174.219.9.103):
In Reply to: Cutting Cable posted by John in La on February 11, 2018 at 07:50:49:
First of all, very sorry to hear about your mother.
We dumped DISH several years ago. All we have now is Verizon Wireless, and even that is by twist of fate, as the nearest Verizon tower is 30 miles away. However, there's a fairly new gov't repeater tower that gives emergency crews in the area the capacity to communicate with dispatch. As it's paid for with taxpayer $$, they make it open to the public, but with official needs taking priority. Works pretty well, considering it's about 10 miles away.
We get about 1.2Mbps while we have our 4G, than after 15GB of hotspot use, they throttle us down and we drop to about 60 or 70 Kbps. Still, that's enough for the wife to stream something from Youtube in 360p while I watch something, also in 360p. However, we can only watch from Amazon or Netflix before getting throttled down. Sometimes we can squeak something out of Amazon at the slow speeds, but not too often. So, I'll often download shows we want to watch and then we can choose to save them. We also have a nice DVD library.
Also, on our PC's, I have ALL ads and popups and auto-updates stopped. Norton AV will do its thing while the PC sits idle, which is fine.
There's LOTS of movies on Youtube, but getting to be fewer and fewer all the time, as Youtube has a new thing where they're removing former links and offering a movie for a price. As for Netflix, just got tired of the hassles here with not having enough bandwidth so often.
Can you cut the cable? YES!! It's very do-able. However, it is less convenient. You'll have to decide how much that convenience is worth to you. What I can say at this time is, I don't ever see us EVER going back to DISH or Direct.
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