jyoutz
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Probably. Rural area with only Dish or DTV as options.
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jyoutz
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Just went to the starlink website. My area can’t get service until 2023 and the service is $99/month. I see no reason to pursue this.
Hughman
Gold Member
I've never understood the concept of paying for tv broadcast (cable, satellite or otherwise). I can find better things to spend $100+/mo on. (But that's just me I guess)
Don't get me wrong, I like watching TV. One of my pandemic projects was to build a home theater in the basement. I simply provide my own content or stream it from the internet.
Don't get me wrong, I like watching TV. One of my pandemic projects was to build a home theater in the basement. I simply provide my own content or stream it from the internet.
jyoutz
Super Member
Some of us in rural areas don’t have fast enough internet to stream.
deserteagle71
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^ This. When your internet speeds are measured in kilobytes per second instead of megabytes you don't stream much of anything.
Just saw another report that there are 120,000 people in rural Nevada who have no access at all to broadband of any sort. I'm one of them.
Smokeydog
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DTV parting shot after 25 years of service was to charge me $147 for less than one day of service. After >1 hour on the phone blaming “billing cycle” nothing they can do except a $10 credit for taking so long. Sad they feel they have to screw leaving customers.
As for getting ATT fiber I had 10 technicians say no for every one that said yes. It took a lot of calls, visits, patience, getting canceled and perseverance to get them to run 2600’. Using me and my truck or tractor to shuttle equipment and pull stuck vehicles. One supervisor said I should have been made to pay $3/foot. Mix of union, non-union and contract labor. Wife and I dug a hole for one connection box because union technicians don’t do shovels. They were ready to quit, put in another service request for a contractor and then wait to get another service request to do their part. No shame in watching two old gray haired people dig 15-20 minutes for their ATT box! Already 4.5 months into this back and forth with nobody accountable to get the job done. Had to buy another in ground box $40, from Home Depot and install for the last 100’ run to the house. Just as entertaining or disappointing as any reality shows on TV except you are a participant.
As for getting ATT fiber I had 10 technicians say no for every one that said yes. It took a lot of calls, visits, patience, getting canceled and perseverance to get them to run 2600’. Using me and my truck or tractor to shuttle equipment and pull stuck vehicles. One supervisor said I should have been made to pay $3/foot. Mix of union, non-union and contract labor. Wife and I dug a hole for one connection box because union technicians don’t do shovels. They were ready to quit, put in another service request for a contractor and then wait to get another service request to do their part. No shame in watching two old gray haired people dig 15-20 minutes for their ATT box! Already 4.5 months into this back and forth with nobody accountable to get the job done. Had to buy another in ground box $40, from Home Depot and install for the last 100’ run to the house. Just as entertaining or disappointing as any reality shows on TV except you are a participant.
Dftodd
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We ditched dish several years ago and never looked back. Started with "Trees" in the way impeding installation.
I knew there were trees that were gonna be in the way, so we got with the installer, saw which ones were gonna impede the dish and had a tree service remove them while there for a couple other nuisance trees.
I scheduled the install once the tree's were down. Tech no called no showed. The reason "Trees were impeding the view" I had just spent $2,000 to get the trees taken down.
Called customer service and they said they would call the tech. Then called back and said trees were in the way. Well at this point I hit the roof. Said the trees your installer said were in the way have been removed. Either get the tech out here in the next our or direct TV is gonna be here first thing in the morning.
Customer service talked me into staying with them. Assured me the tech would be out soon. Just to get no called no showed a second time.
Called customer service again. They said the reason was trees.
At this point I had them escalate the call to management. Explained what was going on. They assured me tech would be there first thing in the morning.
At noon, he finally showed up. Was the same bloody idiot that no called I showed twice the day before.
I got sick of the having to call them back after a rate increase to get them to bump it back down.
Told them the next time they bumped us up, they could come get their equipment.
In the mean time we had the option of upgrading our internet speeds to where we could stream TV.
They bumped our rates up and I canceled the service and never looked back. Put an amplified antennae on the roof for local TV and streamed Netflix and prime.
If your internet is fast enough, you can stream TV and get better results. Even local channels through some of the different apps.
I knew there were trees that were gonna be in the way, so we got with the installer, saw which ones were gonna impede the dish and had a tree service remove them while there for a couple other nuisance trees.
I scheduled the install once the tree's were down. Tech no called no showed. The reason "Trees were impeding the view" I had just spent $2,000 to get the trees taken down.
Called customer service and they said they would call the tech. Then called back and said trees were in the way. Well at this point I hit the roof. Said the trees your installer said were in the way have been removed. Either get the tech out here in the next our or direct TV is gonna be here first thing in the morning.
Customer service talked me into staying with them. Assured me the tech would be out soon. Just to get no called no showed a second time.
Called customer service again. They said the reason was trees.
At this point I had them escalate the call to management. Explained what was going on. They assured me tech would be there first thing in the morning.
At noon, he finally showed up. Was the same bloody idiot that no called I showed twice the day before.
I got sick of the having to call them back after a rate increase to get them to bump it back down.
Told them the next time they bumped us up, they could come get their equipment.
In the mean time we had the option of upgrading our internet speeds to where we could stream TV.
They bumped our rates up and I canceled the service and never looked back. Put an amplified antennae on the roof for local TV and streamed Netflix and prime.
If your internet is fast enough, you can stream TV and get better results. Even local channels through some of the different apps.
Dftodd
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We just switched back to ATT for cell service. I'll have to get back to you on the experience. They offer a special plan for Doctors, nurses, and emergency responders. Wife's a nurse so she qualified for the plan.
Her phone will work anywhere and take priority over the general public. As well as getting a 25% discount. We get the 25% discount on my line as well. So it dropped the price down to pretty similar to what we were paying with straight talk.
We've had an issue with our phones for a couple weeks now. After doing the tech support circle jerk with straight talks tech support, getting bounced around for tech to tech. And them wanting to keep trying the same useless techniques that we have already established did not work...... after losing 12 hrs of my time over a week and endless frustration we decided to bail on them.
Ken45101
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Or the bandwidth limits. The best we can currently do s 50GB/month of moderate speed (5-15 Mbps.) $110/month. Cellular internet not available. I'm signed up for Starlink. If we get it i will be sllghtly cheaper with no limits and 30 times faster. IF we get it.
jyoutz
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I’m going to stick with the slow centurylink DSL I have. Not great, but only $40/month. My Dish Network bill is $60/month and I’m happy with the service and selection.