The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Gary has the Amazon Fire in the patio Tv and a Rveal device in the house. The Amazon Fire is a much solid platform, but the offerings are very limited when compared to the unrestricted Rveal setup. Gary is still a neophyte with the Rveal and finding what he seeks is a bit time consuming. But ... everything seems to be there on the Rveal. New movies, old movies, current shows old shows, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Youtube, NFL, NCAA, NASCAR, MLB, NBA, NHA, even blacked-out games, et cetera it's all there. You just gotta figure out how to find it in a stable format, (with Rveal, sometimes, in the middle of a movie or program the sound would die or the video freeze). But there are many different providers of identical content, one just has to find the stable provider. Last night watching cable news there were ads from Illinois and on Monday ads from Seattle.

 

[JonA_CT]

I set the over/under on my phone call to cancel my Dish service at 32 minutes. Any takers?

Over/under 3 additional offers to keep my business

 

[Gary A.]

PS- Gary also has a digital antenna ... it is amazing all the foreign language programing he picks up. Spanish, Arabic, Laotian, Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Turkish, Indian, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Italian, Iranian, Croatian, just to name a few.

 

[benhasajeep45 43]

Presently it is 50F at 7:22 a.m. but it should reach into the 70's today. The sun is out, looks like another pleasant day. Gary has phone/internet/cable bundled and it isn't cost effective to unbundle. It was Fios but a company named Frontier recently purchased the system in La Mirada. Gary's internet streaming is free as it is running off the bundled internet service. The bundle is about $80 a month (no pay services).

Our bundle with no pay channels would be $99 for 12 month. Then jumps to $149 after 12 months! I keep getting ads for it. Mail box full of flyers. Everytime saying special offer just for you. When every time it's the same offer as on tv commercials.

 

[JonA_CT]

Frontier bought out ATT here a few years back. It was a nightmare of a transition as it happened overnight and ATT literally took everything with them.

In a shock, it took me 12 mintues to cancel my Dish service. They did offer me 3 different plans to save me money.

I've now been on hold trying to talk to my Cable internet provider about what they can offer me for longer than I was on the phone with Dish for. With taxes and the like, I pay $70 a month for internet. I'm going to see what they can offer to keep me, although they probably know me leaving is a bluff, because we don't have fiber in my neighborhood.

 

[limr29 2]

I set the over/under on my phone call to cancel my Dish service at 32 minutes. Any takers?

Over/under 3 additional offers to keep my business

Over 32 minutes, over 3 additional offers after the initial offer AND conversations with more than 2 people.

ETA: I should have read the new posts before I hit enter on this So I pretty much lost on all counts, eh? Hey, try calling Sirius and you'll see - right predictions, wrong company.

 

[JonA_CT]

Hahaha I held a total of 14 minutes for the salesman of my broadband company to remind me that their TV offers suck. I did move from 60 mbps to 100 mbps internet service for an additional $2 per month. My net savings for all of this work? $40 a month. It's the principle of the thing, though, haha.

P.S. I told the salesman what I was paying combined before he made his offer (which was around $140 between internet and DISH). His retort was $129.99 for similar service prior to taxes and fees. How much were the fees and taxes you ask? Approximately $35.

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

Hahaha I held a total of 14 minutes for the salesman of my broadband company to remind me that their TV offers suck. I did move from 60 mbps to 100 mbps internet service for an additional $2 per month. My net savings for all of this work? $40 a month. It's the principle of the thing, though, haha.

P.S. I told the salesman what I was paying combined before he made his offer (which was around $140 between internet and DISH). His retort was $129.99 for similar service prior to taxes and fees. How much were the fees and taxes you ask? Approximately $35.

So you had a crappy morning and decided to improve your day by calling your cable and internet providers?

 

[jcdeboever]

Hahaha I held a total of 14 minutes for the salesman of my broadband company to remind me that their TV offers suck. I did move from 60 mbps to 100 mbps internet service for an additional $2 per month. My net savings for all of this work? $40 a month. It's the principle of the thing, though, haha.

P.S. I told the salesman what I was paying combined before he made his offer (which was around $140 between internet and DISH). His retort was $129.99 for similar service prior to taxes and fees. How much were the fees and taxes you ask? Approximately $35.

The whole things a racket if you ask me. I have no say, the wife wants it. I do like the MLB and NHL packages. The thing is, I don't watch it is as nearly as much as I pay for it. Time, time, time. I remember the days of having good internet but they are slowly fading.

I hooked up an outdoor antenna for my son at his house, little breakaway, little grease, little oil, works fine. He bought the digital converter, and is pulling in close to 100 channels, for free. He recently told me he hasn't turned the TV on in months, I could have fallen off that roof for nothing. Of course he works 60-65 hours a week, and 8 credit hours of school, not much time for TV. It is work, school, homework, bed for him.

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

What do you guys consider "good" internet speeds? I did a speed test and have 24 download and 50 upload. That was with my VPN network also running. Rarely have any issues even when Princess is streaming and my nephew is gaming and I'm working... We pay for 50mbps service and an upgrade to 75mbps would be $35 more per month so not worth it since we don't usually have issues.

 

[JonA_CT]

What do you guys consider "good" internet speeds? I did a speed test and have 24 download and 50 upload. That was with my VPN network also running. Rarely have any issues even when Princess is streaming and my nephew is gaming and I'm working... We pay for 50mbps service and an upgrade to 75mbps would be $35 more per month so not worth it since we don't usually have issues.

When we got upgraded from 20 to 60 mbps, we stopped having any issues streaming HD signal, playing video games, etc, even if we were trying to do multiple things at one time. I figured that the $2 a month to go to 100 mbps will do well when we finally get our 4K TV and start streaming 4K material.

I'm surprised you don't have access to something significantly faster, honestly. My friends who live in/near bigger cities have faster and cheaper service than I do.

 

[Frank F.]

got up at 5.00 a.m.
started writing editing seo at 5.30
dressed daughter and brought her to school at 7.30/8.00
shopping & sports till 9.00
Work till 14.00
pause
collect daughter from school at 15.00
work till 16.30
swimming course with daughter till 18.20
making and baking waffels for children
now writing this at 20.00

I am ready for a night full of sleep, but daughter is still adverntourous....
Cant keep my eyes open or I would play something with her
MLW went to a gallery Vernissage with friends after work.

I should clean the kitchen now.

then prepare daughter for bed and read a book to her....

oh sleep, sweet sleep, I could use more of you

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

What do you guys consider "good" internet speeds? I did a speed test and have 24 download and 50 upload. That was with my VPN network also running. Rarely have any issues even when Princess is streaming and my nephew is gaming and I'm working... We pay for 50mbps service and an upgrade to 75mbps would be $35 more per month so not worth it since we don't usually have issues.

When we got upgraded from 20 to 60 mbps, we stopped having any issues streaming HD signal, playing video games, etc, even if we were trying to do multiple things at one time. I figured that the $2 a month to go to 100 mbps will do well when we finally get our 4K TV and start streaming 4K material.

I'm surprised you don't have access to something significantly faster, honestly. My friends who live in/near bigger cities have faster and cheaper service than I do.

100mbps is also available but that's at an even bigger jump from what we have now. Almost $50 more per month.

Edit - just checked the Verizon website and the $50 more per month is actually a jump to a Gig with 940 mbps upload and 880 mbps download! Now that is super tempting even though it's not needed. Imagine how fast you could download raw files? I would think the poor speed of my low rent pc would limit me quite a bit in that situation though!

 

[vintagesnaps]

Oh no, somebody cleaned up Frank's ode to a sledgehammer, good thing he took pictures so we can remember it always... or at least til tomorrow before we forget about it anyway.

I still have cable because that has the option for whatever sports tier/package to be able to get Fox College Sports (for hockey) and NHL Center Ice (for hockey). As long as I can hear the Hockey Night in Canada intro with Foster Hewitt's 'Hello Canada, and hockey fans in the United States - and Newf'nd-land...' and see what jacket Don Cherry is wearing on Coach's Corner, I'm good.

 

[JonA_CT]

What do you guys consider "good" internet speeds? I did a speed test and have 24 download and 50 upload. That was with my VPN network also running. Rarely have any issues even when Princess is streaming and my nephew is gaming and I'm working... We pay for 50mbps service and an upgrade to 75mbps would be $35 more per month so not worth it since we don't usually have issues.

When we got upgraded from 20 to 60 mbps, we stopped having any issues streaming HD signal, playing video games, etc, even if we were trying to do multiple things at one time. I figured that the $2 a month to go to 100 mbps will do well when we finally get our 4K TV and start streaming 4K material.

I'm surprised you don't have access to something significantly faster, honestly. My friends who live in/near bigger cities have faster and cheaper service than I do.

100mbps is also available but that's at an even bigger jump from what we have now. Almost $50 more per month.

Edit - just checked the Verizon website and the $50 more per month is actually a jump to a Gig with 940 mbps upload and 880 mbps download! Now that is super tempting even though it's not needed. Imagine how fast you could download raw files? I would think the poor speed of my low rent pc would limit me quite a bit in that situation though!

See...that makes sense to me, haha! I have the mid-tier, but I think the fastest internet in my area is around 200mbps.

I don't see why a normal human being needs 1gigabit service, haha.