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Comcast just sent me a letter asking me to "turn in my dish"...
- Thread starter Wingznut
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ThaGrandCow
Diamond Member
:Q
Wow, they must be getting scared of sattelite service now that we can broadcast the local channels. That's a hell of a discount.
<-----signed up 5 people who were completely fed up w/cable service today
bandana163
Diamond Member
Keep the dish.
Is cable really that bad for you guys?
I've got TW Cable in Northern NJ and I have never had a problem with them in 4 different locations. They are always on time, respond quickly and up 99.9% of the time. The only time my cable ever got down was when a fallen tree limb knocked out cable to my entire building. They fixed it in 2 hours. My RoadRunner has been down 3 times in 4 years. Once because of that tree limb, another time for 6 hours and about 12 hours a couple weeks ago because of that blackout we had here.
I've been very happy with my cable.
I've got TW Cable in Northern NJ and I have never had a problem with them in 4 different locations. They are always on time, respond quickly and up 99.9% of the time. The only time my cable ever got down was when a fallen tree limb knocked out cable to my entire building. They fixed it in 2 hours. My RoadRunner has been down 3 times in 4 years. Once because of that tree limb, another time for 6 hours and about 12 hours a couple weeks ago because of that blackout we had here.
I've been very happy with my cable.
Amused
Elite Member
I'll keep DirecTV for now, but in the future, Cable will win the HDTV battle, simply because they have the bandwidth, and satellite does not.
In fact, DirecTV and Dish have already compressed their SD channels so much in their effort to carry so many locals, my local digital cable channels do look better. However, so few of the channels on my local cable are digital, it's not worth it (only channels above 100 are digital).
Not only that, but DirecTV has started compressing HD channels as well. Can you say MPEG artifacts from hell? What used to be delivered at 18-19 mbps is now coming in at 14-15 mbps.
So, when my cable company goes 100% digital, and starts offering more HD than DirecTV, I'll switch. I have a feeling that will happen within a couple of years.
In fact, DirecTV and Dish have already compressed their SD channels so much in their effort to carry so many locals, my local digital cable channels do look better. However, so few of the channels on my local cable are digital, it's not worth it (only channels above 100 are digital).
Not only that, but DirecTV has started compressing HD channels as well. Can you say MPEG artifacts from hell? What used to be delivered at 18-19 mbps is now coming in at 14-15 mbps.
So, when my cable company goes 100% digital, and starts offering more HD than DirecTV, I'll switch. I have a feeling that will happen within a couple of years.
PlatinumGold
Lifer
comcast wants $75.00 / month for Digital cable here, and thats with NO premium channels, JUST tv no internet.
Verizon DSL is NOT better than cable.
I had that POS for 2 years and it was down half the time (one time suddenly for 6 straight weeks and they denied it was down). Like I said, I've only been down 3 times and 2 times it was not their fault. I got about 500K/128K with 100ms pings for DSL. I'm getting 3Mbp/640K and 20-30ms pings for cable.
Verizon may be cheaper but to me cable is worth every penny.
I had that POS for 2 years and it was down half the time (one time suddenly for 6 straight weeks and they denied it was down). Like I said, I've only been down 3 times and 2 times it was not their fault. I got about 500K/128K with 100ms pings for DSL. I'm getting 3Mbp/640K and 20-30ms pings for cable.
Verizon may be cheaper but to me cable is worth every penny.
PlatinumGold
Lifer
that's a region by region thing. they tell me that in florida DSL totally blows away Cable. I know that in NJ, very few people prefer DSL over cable.
Sooooo, so wrong. Being a Floridian, myself, I can tell you the best choice is cable. Price of both are about the same (maybe $5 difference) yet the difference in speed is astronomical. Being an ex-Central Floridian, I know that RR beats the crap out of the Sprint DSL that is offered there. I had DSL and payed the $175 cancelation fee just to get out of that crappy service. Going from 45KB/s down, and 12KB/s up to 270KB/s down and 50KB/s up is a huge difference.
Although, I'd love to see about getting satelite for football, again (father had it for sometime) I don't think I have the money, on my own 🙂!
No...I've worked in 2 restaurantes that have Satelite for their customers (Gator's Dockside and, now, Firehouse Subs), and my father had Satelite for a few years. There's no way around it, as soon as our daily storms come it satelite is out. My father tried remounting on several different places because the first one, on an older tree, just didn't work. It was so bad that the tree would get soaked and lean a bit so not only was it out during the storm, but after the storm for about an hour. 🙁. But even after moving the dish, it'd still go out during the bad storms.
PlatinumGold
Lifer
Seriously??
A friend of mine lives near orlando (within 50 miles of it i believe) and he says the cable (i can't remember the provider) is CRAP. again, you missed my point and i wasn't SO SOOO wrong, it IS a region by region thing. go to DSLReports.com and you'll see.
PlatinumGold
Lifer
🙂
GA gets it's share of rain in the Spring also. i would think that Florida and Georgia Cable would be valid alternatives BECAUSE of the storms. In NJ we hardly ever get rains like that, well except this summer. but even this summer my dish never went out for more than 30 minutes because none of the storms lasted long enough.
i did notice some artifacting during stormy or windy days tho.
PlatinumGold
Lifer
🙂
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