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May 18, 2011 at 11:28 AM #697553May 19, 2011 at 8:48 AM #696772
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantLooks like this might be a long-term project.
To get the Road-runner lightening service they almost bend you over to get cable. What I am thinking is we bite the bullet, let TW or the service techs run around installing outlets from the attic.
Later I start to build my HTPC, and figure out how to get it all networked.
My Roku seemed to die the other day and it’s not that damn old. I’ll try it again, but kid lost his Indians games and is pissed he now has to watch on the PC in the man-cave.
Also considering other devices besides Roku, and the more I investigate the paralysis-from-analysis I get, so no more investigating the best method to the point of 3 hours sleep, all so I save $50/month. I need to take this a bit slower, so I think at first we are just going regular cable. Uverse is available too which I liked in Carlsbad, but I hate not having the MLB network.
May 19, 2011 at 8:48 AM #696860ParticipantLooks like this might be a long-term project.
To get the Road-runner lightening service they almost bend you over to get cable. What I am thinking is we bite the bullet, let TW or the service techs run around installing outlets from the attic.
Later I start to build my HTPC, and figure out how to get it all networked.
My Roku seemed to die the other day and it’s not that damn old. I’ll try it again, but kid lost his Indians games and is pissed he now has to watch on the PC in the man-cave.
Also considering other devices besides Roku, and the more I investigate the paralysis-from-analysis I get, so no more investigating the best method to the point of 3 hours sleep, all so I save $50/month. I need to take this a bit slower, so I think at first we are just going regular cable. Uverse is available too which I liked in Carlsbad, but I hate not having the MLB network.
May 19, 2011 at 8:48 AM #697457ParticipantLooks like this might be a long-term project.
To get the Road-runner lightening service they almost bend you over to get cable. What I am thinking is we bite the bullet, let TW or the service techs run around installing outlets from the attic.
Later I start to build my HTPC, and figure out how to get it all networked.
My Roku seemed to die the other day and it’s not that damn old. I’ll try it again, but kid lost his Indians games and is pissed he now has to watch on the PC in the man-cave.
Also considering other devices besides Roku, and the more I investigate the paralysis-from-analysis I get, so no more investigating the best method to the point of 3 hours sleep, all so I save $50/month. I need to take this a bit slower, so I think at first we are just going regular cable. Uverse is available too which I liked in Carlsbad, but I hate not having the MLB network.
May 19, 2011 at 8:48 AM #697604ParticipantLooks like this might be a long-term project.
To get the Road-runner lightening service they almost bend you over to get cable. What I am thinking is we bite the bullet, let TW or the service techs run around installing outlets from the attic.
Later I start to build my HTPC, and figure out how to get it all networked.
My Roku seemed to die the other day and it’s not that damn old. I’ll try it again, but kid lost his Indians games and is pissed he now has to watch on the PC in the man-cave.
Also considering other devices besides Roku, and the more I investigate the paralysis-from-analysis I get, so no more investigating the best method to the point of 3 hours sleep, all so I save $50/month. I need to take this a bit slower, so I think at first we are just going regular cable. Uverse is available too which I liked in Carlsbad, but I hate not having the MLB network.
May 19, 2011 at 8:48 AM #697959ParticipantLooks like this might be a long-term project.
To get the Road-runner lightening service they almost bend you over to get cable. What I am thinking is we bite the bullet, let TW or the service techs run around installing outlets from the attic.
Later I start to build my HTPC, and figure out how to get it all networked.
My Roku seemed to die the other day and it’s not that damn old. I’ll try it again, but kid lost his Indians games and is pissed he now has to watch on the PC in the man-cave.
Also considering other devices besides Roku, and the more I investigate the paralysis-from-analysis I get, so no more investigating the best method to the point of 3 hours sleep, all so I save $50/month. I need to take this a bit slower, so I think at first we are just going regular cable. Uverse is available too which I liked in Carlsbad, but I hate not having the MLB network.
May 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM #697001mike92104
ParticipantHonestly if we were in a Time Warner area, we would probably have cable. We dropped Cox because their internet was unreliable. Their network is way overextended, and I wouldn’t be able to get internet access any time there was a game or some other popular event on tv because there wasn’t enough gain. when I lived in a Time Warner area, we never had an issue.
May 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM #697090ParticipantHonestly if we were in a Time Warner area, we would probably have cable. We dropped Cox because their internet was unreliable. Their network is way overextended, and I wouldn’t be able to get internet access any time there was a game or some other popular event on tv because there wasn’t enough gain. when I lived in a Time Warner area, we never had an issue.
May 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM #697687ParticipantHonestly if we were in a Time Warner area, we would probably have cable. We dropped Cox because their internet was unreliable. Their network is way overextended, and I wouldn’t be able to get internet access any time there was a game or some other popular event on tv because there wasn’t enough gain. when I lived in a Time Warner area, we never had an issue.
May 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM #697835ParticipantHonestly if we were in a Time Warner area, we would probably have cable. We dropped Cox because their internet was unreliable. Their network is way overextended, and I wouldn’t be able to get internet access any time there was a game or some other popular event on tv because there wasn’t enough gain. when I lived in a Time Warner area, we never had an issue.
May 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM #698189ParticipantHonestly if we were in a Time Warner area, we would probably have cable. We dropped Cox because their internet was unreliable. Their network is way overextended, and I wouldn’t be able to get internet access any time there was a game or some other popular event on tv because there wasn’t enough gain. when I lived in a Time Warner area, we never had an issue.
July 31, 2012 at 3:30 PM #749304Hatfield
ParticipantThe plasma thread reminded me about this thread.
After much dilly-dallying, I finally got around to canceling cable TV a couple months ago. We still have internet and telephone through Cox. Our Cox bill dropped from around $180 to $100, and the best part: apparently if you have cable internet, they don’t have a way to turn off the analog cable TV channels. So we’re still get 60 or 70 channels for free. Not that it does us much good – before the Olympics started I had not turned on the TV in two or three months.
My next project is to drop the landline. I have an OBi 110 box, which allows you to access your Google voice line from a regular old wired handset. I’ve had the same landline number for 20+ years, and I’m thinking about porting it over to Google voice using this method: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/google-voice-a-step-by-step-primer-on-ditching-your-land-line-while-keeping-your-number/10455
July 31, 2012 at 4:02 PM #749306spdrun
ParticipantI have very basic cable (basically air channels + a few extra freebies, no box) since my building offers it. But I’ve never overtly paid for cable in my life. And no one has mentioned using BitTorrent plus an anonymizing service.
As far as a land-line, I’m keeping mine. It’s worth the $25 or so per month extra to have a phone that always works in the (212). Most VoIP sounds like shit compared to the phone network, which was designed to carry voice and does it well. It’s not only a matter of speed, but of latency.
July 31, 2012 at 4:58 PM #749307Diego Mamani
Participant[quote=Hatfield]apparently if you have cable internet, they don’t have a way to turn off the analog cable TV channels. So we’re still get 60 or 70 channels for free.[/quote]
Don’t you need some kind of box or decoder in order to get those freebie channels to your TV?July 31, 2012 at 5:01 PM #749308ParticipantNope — a lot of the channels are un-encrypted. You may even get them in digital (look up clearQAM).
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