How do I get DSL without cable? I don’t have a home phone - just a cell and I live in a rural area in E. Tennessee. Limited availability.
Does Netflix through Wii have closed captioning? My daughter is deaf so I really need CC.
AT&T Uverse is not available in my area.
I only want television so I can keep up with politics. I have lived my whole life without TV and politics but the election of O got my attention so I got cable.
My sister gets her dsl through her cell phone. But, I don’t know how its done.
Click this link, click ‘choose your antenna’, and enter your zip code: http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx
I live in a rural area near you and get 2 Kingsport stations each with 3 channels in HD (well, 2 of the channels are weather).
You’ll get more, free, with CC and HD.
No captions on streaming Netflix. We have Roku. I am just a bit hard-of-hearing (more like “hard-of-understanding”, especially if there is a foreign accent)and we get DVDs on our Netflix, as well as streaming, because the DVDs are mostly cc.
We have DSL through a landline, but they are electronic mobile phones. We have one hard-wired landline in the shop in case of power outages. Thee are glitches with streaming. If there is any DSL problem anywhere on the network, we lose the connection. It does come back, of course, and we can fast forward back to our place. It is annoying, but if we get heavy storms to the South, we lose sat TV, too.
We have had DirecTV for ten years. This month it went to $75 for the package that includes FNC and FB. We had already decided to cancel it, so the price rise just added to the problem. There is so little that we watch, it isn’t worth it. We are in hill country and an over-the-air antenna doesn’t always work out here. Our TV is not HD, so there is that problem, as well. We have a business package, so we can’t take advantage of the TV bundle, AFAIK.
I had a deaf worker who had hearing aids and she would always turn on the sat TV for music while she worked. She also insisted everyone just speak normally to her, as she could lip read. Not sure if she could lip read fast enough for TV or if she was missing the speech from off-camera actors.
You don’t get anything new or different on TV, in regard to politics. I usually have the same information they are putting out via the internet and I have it sooner than FNC. Breaking news is online. There are clips from all the interview programs on either the network sites or You Tube. I can get Beck or other shows without commercials via the internet, too.
You might want to look into whatever residential bundle your local ISP offers. I have seen ads that offer Internet and sat TV along with affordable rates. One landline is included.
AT&T will likely not be upgrading any rural services for DSL. They got rid of about 90% of their installation crew even for land line phones.
COMCAST won't run cable unless houses are fairly close together. They aren't in any hurry to expand either. Our only hope is if and when they get the bugs worked out they start using the power grid for internet, phone, and TV services.
I'm in rural East Tennessee also and in the same boat you are. I use Direct TV and I installed and maintain my own system. East Tennessee is far enough south that generally it takes a real heavy rain to knock out the signal unless trees are in the way of it's line of sight to the satellite.
As for internet? I use dial up and get a 50K connect speed for about $11 a month from ISP.com I have a laptop I use if I need to download a large amount of data. I go to the Krystal for free WI-Fi and a few burgers :>}
BTW on my Direct TV system the close caption works through the TV. IOW the CC data gets transmitted to the TV through the satellite system and all I have to do is turn on Closed Captioned on the TV set itself. Hope that helps.