mdhmi
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Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T all limit their data packages to five gigs of traffic per month, which is absolutely nothing.
So tired of having a Cable bill!!!
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Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T all limit their data packages to five gigs of traffic per month, which is absolutely nothing.
Tin
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Thats another one of those things that depends on the person using it. If youre a heavy downloader, no doubt its not enough. Casual web surfers wont even come close. My bandwidth last month was 4.81GB, mostly from lossless audio downloads. If I were watching/downloading compressed audio and video streams, it wouldve been half that or less.
A couple years back I had pulled 1GB from 1 messageboard alone.
I think HD youtube is at at least a couple megs a minute. Most of your bandwidth caps are either 40gb a month, or 200gb a month.
A 20 meg cable connection running at full download 24/7 for a whole month would be 7 terabytes in a month!
5 gigs by 30 days per month = 166.6 megs a day. Not very much at all. 7 megs an hour, on average. Literally dial-up speeds.
Not to mention the latency, packet loss, short-lasting but annoying signal outages, and hassle of using a wireless connection all the time.
Zarken
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I use the web to watch 90% of my tv shows. The only time I actually tune into whats free on tap from my digital converter is late night boredome. You get the occasional movie or HD late night show.
I use Hulu.com for 75%, and for shows not on hulu I actually go straight to the stations website. Smallville and Leverage both air at there stations website. Others do as well. I tried the EpixHD for free for a week. Once I got the 10 movies I really wanted to watch out of the way, I never logged back in. It was nice in theory but there selection wasn't that great. To bad there isn't a red Box version streaming over the web. I'd use it. Then there is no possibility of being charged for the extra day.
I use Hulu.com for 75%, and for shows not on hulu I actually go straight to the stations website. Smallville and Leverage both air at there stations website. Others do as well. I tried the EpixHD for free for a week. Once I got the 10 movies I really wanted to watch out of the way, I never logged back in. It was nice in theory but there selection wasn't that great. To bad there isn't a red Box version streaming over the web. I'd use it. Then there is no possibility of being charged for the extra day.
How many goddamn movie channels you got?
daveedsfast
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got rid of cable 3 months ago. Didn't think I could do without, but bein unemployed for a year will make you live like a street bum. I have the cheapest internet I could find, gas, electric, rent, cell phone, car insurance, student loans, food, gf money. UGH. Love not having cable though, don't miss it at all.
:lol: What is that?
Tin
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So he can get a :bj: instead of :wank:.
DBK
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I pay around $130 a month for WOW for TV and internet and I wish I could get rid of it. The service is shoddy to begin with, so I'm not super happy about the bill. Alot of the HD channels freak out periodically and get all pixelated and jumpy. That said, I watch alot of HBO and Showtime shows, and I love watching Discovery HD, Science HD and the History channel, so getting rid of it isn't gonna happen.
topless67
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My bf tried that, even used real copper - it didn't improve reception, and its not weather resistant, lol. Dish is coming out Mon. :thumbsup:
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