Bumpity bump....
Started searching around since our 2 yrs is up in July. Found out i only have a $30 etf with FIOS.
Xfinity guy knocked on our door, so i listened to his speech til he said 100/15, nerp im good. “Why do you need such high upload speeds sir, our surveys say that most users only need 15 mbps down.”
Cause I dont want to wait 4 days for the file I need to upload for work to finish, after my VPN cuts your 15mbps to like 7.
Anyway, called FIOS, saw $39.99 for 100/100, new customers only. Best we can offer is $74.99, but then $40 if you wanna keep the same # of boxes (2).
Now the rep I got was very cool, she looked up a bunch of different options but couldnt get it lower. She told me the best thing to do is cancel, wait 24hrs, then sign up as a new customer.
So, today I cancelled, “your service will be cancelled as of midnight”. 5 minutes after hanging up they killed it....
I figure, may as well see if I can sign up, 15 minutes later I'm back up and running 100/100 at $39.99.
So for TV I did trials for everything.
Hulu Live $40, had good selection of shows, 3 of 4 local channels live, UI sucked, buffered a lot, and no Android TV app.
Youtube TV $40, was awesome, up to 6 streams, all locals live, great UI, smooth streaming, but the lack of Viacom channels ATM killed it. No Nick Jr would cause a riot. But its supposed to be otw. Will look into it later
Everything else just didn't have the locals or was lacking in channels.
Ended up doing DirecTV Now, have my 2 local news channels we watch, the other networks are available on demand, and we have Disney and Nick. Downside is only 2 streams at once, but you can sign into streaming apps using your DirecTV Now credentials and it doesn't take up 1 of your 2. It really only matters when streaming some live stuff.
$80 a month for Internet/streaming vs $130.
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Started searching around since our 2 yrs is up in July. Found out i only have a $30 etf with FIOS.
Xfinity guy knocked on our door, so i listened to his speech til he said 100/15, nerp im good. “Why do you need such high upload speeds sir, our surveys say that most users only need 15 mbps down.”
Cause I dont want to wait 4 days for the file I need to upload for work to finish, after my VPN cuts your 15mbps to like 7.
Anyway, called FIOS, saw $39.99 for 100/100, new customers only. Best we can offer is $74.99, but then $40 if you wanna keep the same # of boxes (2).
Now the rep I got was very cool, she looked up a bunch of different options but couldnt get it lower. She told me the best thing to do is cancel, wait 24hrs, then sign up as a new customer.
So, today I cancelled, “your service will be cancelled as of midnight”. 5 minutes after hanging up they killed it....
I figure, may as well see if I can sign up, 15 minutes later I'm back up and running 100/100 at $39.99.
So for TV I did trials for everything.
Hulu Live $40, had good selection of shows, 3 of 4 local channels live, UI sucked, buffered a lot, and no Android TV app.
Youtube TV $40, was awesome, up to 6 streams, all locals live, great UI, smooth streaming, but the lack of Viacom channels ATM killed it. No Nick Jr would cause a riot. But its supposed to be otw. Will look into it later
Everything else just didn't have the locals or was lacking in channels.
Ended up doing DirecTV Now, have my 2 local news channels we watch, the other networks are available on demand, and we have Disney and Nick. Downside is only 2 streams at once, but you can sign into streaming apps using your DirecTV Now credentials and it doesn't take up 1 of your 2. It really only matters when streaming some live stuff.
$80 a month for Internet/streaming vs $130.
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