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To: TXnMA

Internet service provider.

But you can get magicjack and use voip.

And you get this and get your tv over internet.

And the only bill is internet, save for a once every 5 years charge on magicjack. Which is 100 bucks for five years. Some people pay that a month for phone plans.


85 posted on 05/26/2016 8:04:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Thanks for the info!

By choice, I'm 'way out in the boonies. My ISP is THE problem: satellite -- with 17GB download and 5GB upload limits. Even worse, the limit is a cumulative "rolling" 30 day sum limit.

I have to be extremely careful with bandwidth usage : if I exceed my limit, the ISP will throttle me back to dial-up speeds.

(Example: I just downloaded an upgrade for my code editor, and it put me up over 80% of my download limit.) If you have one "spike" of usage like that in a month, you have to wait a month for that spike to "clear" before your usage drops back down. :-(

IOW, use 15 (of 17) GB on the first of the month, and you're allowed only two (2) GB of downloads -- total -- for the rest of the month... :-(

Huge ripoff -- but the cellular services don't seem much better on usage limits...

I don't see much hope of streaming anything...

87 posted on 05/26/2016 9:14:12 PM PDT by TXnMA (Recorded for posterity...)
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