About to ditch satellite ...

[bubbaearl]

we have sprint/tmoble service but it can get sketchy . i live down in the river valley . had sprint broadband years ago . worked great but was pricey. had to pull the card every time or background shit would use up all the data .

[BP]

tmoble claims 5g everywhere but they lie . sprint has gone downhill since the merger . i have to replace a phone wire with 5g wire . will go from box to router about 2-3 ft away . they swear it's good from box back to them so we'll see. i am hooked up secure to the router but i get the no internet service thing. once i replace the wire there's no more excuses for them .
to be honest i remember the days of no internet or cell phones . i hated my beeper the day i got it . shop called me every 30 min with a new problem .

They claim the largest 5G footprint, certainly not that it's available everywhere. In most major cities and near interstates it's very fast and reliable. Get a mile or so away and you get 4G, head out to the woods and maybe 3G.

[bubbaearl]

well hell , no starlink down here . if the new phone line doesn't fix it i will be stuck with bad internet or Hughes net which sucked last time i used it . nothing else avalible . couple of smalltime cable links but none are on our road . need broadband but the data sucks .

[dcs13]

My direct TV bill was $177 a month. My old shitty internet was $100 a month.
New internet $80, wife got the Discovery plus app at $7 a month. We also have a roku thing.

We can NOT do Hulu because the wireless hotspot shows our location outside our home zip. Some weird quirk with Hulu.

So far , I haven't missed a thing. Plenty of stuff to watch.

[Rick Modena]

I'm still hooked up to DTV, my youngest daughter said she ditched the cable, but once she added in Hulu, Amazon prime, Disney, Netflix, Apple and HBO, she was paying more than DTV and doesn't have nearly the content.

I mooch off of her Netflix*, Hulu* and got HBO Max free with Internet bundle.

* I hardly watch these channels.

[bubbaearl]

tmoble claims 5g everywhere but they lie . sprint has gone downhill since the merger . i have to replace a phone wire with 5g wire . will go from box to router about 2-3 ft away . they swear it's good from box back to them so we'll see. i am hooked up secure to the router but i get the no internet service thing. once i replace the wire there's no more excuses for them .
to be honest i remember the days of no internet or cell phones . i hated my beeper the day i got it . shop called me every 30 min with a new problem .

[GeorgeG.]

Is this internet in the boonies one of those satellite options? I would test the performance before cancelling DirectTV. We had that when we lived in the sticks and although we had line of site issues with trees, I wasn't convinced that streaming anything would've been any good.

Also, how much is the directTV? I ask because we cut the cord too and now have $20 for Netflix, $5 for Peacock, however much Hulu costs, then there's Amazon Prime's cost...it starts to add up and I don't think there's a lot on. With the exception of Yellowstone on Peacock, I'd much prefer to have a Guide where I can mindlessly scroll till I find something, lol.

[dcs13]

let me know how it goes . our only option is phone line dsl or satellite . they laid fiber optics years ago but have done nothing with it that i know of .

Do you have any 5g coverage in your area ? A friend clued me in on a deal to get unlimited 5g for $80 a month. Our coverage is good, so thats how I did it.

[bubbaearl]

LOL, funny this got a response today.. In the true spirit of procrastination, I finally cancelled DirectTV today... Finally got some internet capable of streaming..
Im learning the app stuff now.

let me know how it goes . our only option is phone line dsl or satellite . they laid fiber optics years ago but have done nothing with it that i know of .

[dcs13]

LOL, funny this got a response today.. In the true spirit of procrastination, I finally cancelled DirectTV today... Finally got some internet capable of streaming..
Im learning the app stuff now.

[Trip McNeely]

I hate Spectrum. That is all.

[BP]

Has anyone tried T-Mobile's 5G home internet? It's cheaper than AT&T's basic fiber package but the wife and I both work from home and need some steady VOIP connections. I can stream 4k video with my cell phone so I know the network has the ability, just not sure about consistent ping times.

[scootro]

It just changed to $110 or $115 monthly.

i guess if that's your only alternative to have internet then that price isn't terrible. Starlink is for people who live in the middle of no where.

[Samhain]

It just changed to $110 or $115 monthly.

[scootro]

I preordered a Starlink kit in October and it arrived the first week of March. They have a pretty decent return policy, so I had a while to try it out before committing. So far I’m seeing consistent speeds of 200m down, 20m up.

how much is that per month?