Posted on 09/18/2019 3:49:47 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
“I believe the poster of the article made the error not the WSJ”
Maybe you’re right. Sorry; I didn’t go to the WSJ site.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
Thought about it, but two problems for us. Netflix is Obama and we only have so much bandwidth with satellite internet.
I have DirecTV instead of DISH in order to watch the Astros. Can’t do that with DISH.
That sounds familiar! I used to go down to Autozone during the winter and get the RV antifreeze and spray down the dish to get rid of the ice buildup. Now I am just on cable internet with ROKU for 36 dollars a month. Service is very reliable on Mediacom in my area.
Same with OANN.
A “500 channels universe is coming soon” these early providers would advertise. Sounded awesome in the 1990’s, and for a while most of the channels were independently owned and had original programming worth watching. In 2019 you have, what? 3 global entities owning the tv universe...Viacom, Time-Warner and Disney? All promoting their agenda and values while remaining silent on so many other important things.
My 6th grade English teacher at Lincoln Elementary (Dayton,OH), Mrs Erball, taught us sentence diagramming - she was quite the stickler in getting it right. As I moved thru HS to Grad school to my senior corporate life, I certainly appreciated her strict teaching.
As I got older/seasoned, I kinda created my own versions for posting on forums, etc. At a certain point, even my handwriting went from an “A” in the 5th grade to barely legible.
What's the reason why the Astros got so good as soon as they moved to the American league? This will be the 3rd year in a row that they won over 100 games.
“even my handwriting went from an “A” in the 5th grade to barely legible.”
Me, too. I chalk that up to typing throughout my whole career. The old, “Use it or lose it”, thing. My dad had elegant cursive handwriting until the day he died at 85 years ole. (He didn’t type much.)
AT&T sucks...
I hear Amazon and Spacex is going to have “low cost” internet service in the not too distant future with a bunch low orbit satellites. They probably won’t stop with just internet service either. Could be that is spooking AT&T, too.
When you set up ROKU like we did, you can access You Tube and get a lot of things. I’m able to watch Fox News Channel every morning (F&F) and can access other shows, too from You Tube.
We were in your position 3 years ago with Comcast raising our bill every 6 months.
Code Toad advised me to cancel regular Comcast and to go Comcast business with a blazing fast internet. We did and the cost/mo for two phones and the internet is a little over $100/mo.
We have Amazon Prime and get a lot of our tv watching for free. We pay about $5 a month for CBS, Acorn tv and Brit Box is another $5/month. We contribute $5 to our PBS and get a ton of stuff via Prime. We are SF Giant fans and pay Sling tv $25/ month for the SF Giants. Sling Blue does not carry ABC/Disney and their pro football thug stations. So none of our money go to their trash. We pay about $120/mo in non baseball time.
For some reason, when we have a California blackout, Comcast Business internet continues to work during the blackout. Also, our cul de sac is loaded with college kids. When they come home for a weekend or holiday, our old Comcast and our neighbors’s AT&T Internets slows to a crawl. Ours never slows down.
Forgot to add, I’ve been seeing a lot more of OANN on You Tube as well.
Yea, don’t offer good phone service or anything. Instead hook up with a loser tv company.
It was once a magnificent product. Now it is beyond terrible.
Thanks Gramps! That’s very helpful. Made my day, actually.
Why not stream instead of comcast? I get my local channels and 120 cable channels plus two premium movie channels for $20 /mo.....
Same with TV Japan. Can no longer get that channel on Dish.
So far, DirectTV is a better service and cheaper price for me than Spectrum which we had for a couple years.
Internet is slower, but Spectrum’s internet speed was not necessary for me.
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