The Glade 4.0

Good luck to you, Midgen. If you talk to Century Link, ask them if they have any deals or promotions they can offer you for signing up. I was able to get 40 Mbps for 1/4th of it's final price, for the first 2 years.

I'm not a hardcore television watcher, so I don't know how much this will help. But I pay for Netflix streaming, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Prime, all which come out to be around 25 dollars a month. I use a Roku 3 mainly for watching it in the bedroom (I use my blu ray player in the main room, which it too has access to all three of those services).

The Roku 3 is wonderful. My favorite feature about it is that the remote has a 3.5 standard headphone jack. When headphones are plugged in, it mutes the television and the show's sound is sent via bluetooth to the remote (with volume controls on the remote as well). My normal watching hours are before I fall asleep, and I stay up later than my wife. In the past, this has caused problems. The remote and headphones has obliterated those problems. Now I can watch super explosion-y action movies or really jump-at-you scary movies without an angry and tired wife getting on my case.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Thanks Numbuk,

I've had a Roku 3 and Netflix and Amazon Prime for quite a while now.

It was mainly live sports that was keeping me on Comcast TV. Those are going to be the challenge I think. I also watched the Science Channel, and will miss those shows, although many of them are available to stream in various forms.

I hooked up an indoor amplified HD antenna and put it in an upstairs south facing window, and am able to get good signal from the local ABC, NBC, and CBS stations being broadcast out of Seattle, so I can still watch the morning news/traffic/weather stuff....

We've always been really happy with satellite. It has the advantage that since the satellite is in space, it's always an option anywhere.

As for internet, maybe AT&T would work better in a major city, as opposed to down here where they have to run phone lines across 4 hours of South Texas nothingness from San Antonio.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I will never give AT&T (in any form) another penny as long I live.

If my level of disdain for Comcast on a scale of 1 to 10 is a 10, my disdain for all things AT&T on that scale is about 999.

Satellite is actually not an option for me for several reasons.

Really? Is it a thing with latitude or something?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Geography

You should pitch municipal fiber to your locality and try to get real competition in the marketplace.

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