Does Cable just suck across the board or are we Cox, charter customers and Comcast Customers just unlucky? Cox is provides our cable, Our last bill was $320 it's GOING UP while the quality of service is going down, example, Our internet dies once a week, the picture for cable is horrible and we get frequent outages and since we have phone included with Cable our phone is dead when our cable is. Charter customers in the south I hear are constantly getting screwed over and...well just read the news and you know all about how comcast fucks everyone over. So I was wondering if there's anyone out there actually sastisfied with their cable/isp providers. And since this is international...how's cable over seas? We are VERY close to switching From Cox to Fios here.
Yes cable sucks, especially Comcast, they compress their programming so much that you can't tell the difference between regular and HD, so I dropped it. And some channels(not sure if it's the channel or not) seem to have a black out time, where it becomes a test screen and is listed as having programs. And now they're showing completely spanish and La Raza commercials. I live in America too, albeit south florida. So yeah it seems comcast does whatever they can to make money.
Direct TV and Dish Network aren't much better. Cox isn't as bad as Comcast but the outages and rising prices don't justify us keeping it. They don't spy on us and they don't throttle out internet but over all it just sucks.
is there any GOOD companies out there? i'm more concerned with internet that works and provides good speeds or at least provide what they're advertising.
I'm very happy with Comcast for internet/voice (~$60/mo for the double-play, local calling only but who cares with Google Voice now, very nice 10/3M connection with burst). I think Comcast cable is nice, they probably have the best content and their OnDemand system is really talented. They just charge an arm and a leg, especially for DVR. A couple years ago I went back to DirecTV where DVR costs like $6/mo. DirecTV is cheap but you're locked into a really freaking long contract. DirecTV OnDemand kinda sucks. From what I've seen FIOS OnDemand kinda sucks worse. My contract is finally up with DirecTV so I dunno what I'll do next. Nowadays I think cable TV is pretty unnecessary, if you're patient all you need is an ATSC tuner, Hulu, Netflix and uTorrent.
That would be Cox...if they didn't charge us out our ass for it and diddn't crap out on us once a week. Fios should SHOULD be the answer.... I hope
As someone who has had charter and now has comcast I discovered the following. Comcast internet is much more stable than charter(it crashed constantly and etc) But comcast HDTV is far less stable. Especially with pausing and recording shit. I try to record The young and the Restless in HD (yes, laugh at me) and it says "Ok your series is recording" but nothing ever actually records and the Channel since the first time I set it up doesn't even come in anymore. i'm like FUCK ME please.
Its how cable in general is. We're with Virgin Media and we're ment to be getting 20mb internet. We get 8 on a good day first thing in the morning. They often choke us and the tv is horrible. If you arent running it through HDMI its blocky as shit.
Don't know about your laws but I got into trouble over having solar panels in my backyard. Not mounted to the house. Just propped up.
My last cable provider was awesome. 160Mb/s interwebs + basic cable (okay, Japanese cable which is lame, but I got CNN, Discovery, and National Geographic) all for something like 12,000 yen a month. My gym cost more than that. An old colleague's husband worked there, so if I needed any work done (modem switch or whatever) it was always done within 24 hours instead of the standard 3 week wait.
back in the day if you lived in the butt fuck middle of nowhere you had to have a fucking huge ass dish in your back yard to get anything Sometimes you'd even end up with Russian channels Once Direct TV and Dish Network (which both SUCK) started up they started to go out of style but they still pop up from time to time
We live in a council house. Modifications are stricly not allowed wether or not they make the house better/ One of my aunts at her old house paid thousands for a beautiful kitchen putting in. She went to move out and the council bled her for thousands despite it being better. I have boards down in my loft so I can store things and use it as a work shop. If we ever have to move out ill have to take them up
Those old satellite dishes were of the C-band variety, DirecTV and Dish Network don't use that frequency band. They're anywhere from 3-5 meters in diameter and could probably make one helluva sled. Back in Wisconsin, I had Charter, and between there and UP of Michigan, we were a kind of "test bed" for the rest of the Charter areas for new internet packages (as in we got it first).
Here in Iowa I have Mediacom, they had a problem with signal strength for a while where my service was getting cut, but I yelled at them enough and they moved me to a different line and I've been fine since. The only problem I have with their cable service is that they removed the TV Guide channel. So now if I want to find out what's on I have to go to my computer in the other room or I have to pay $15/mo more for digital cable which sure you get like 50 more channels and free hd, but I'm already paying $50/mo for 12 Mb internet.
Interesting read here. http://www.satellitetheater.com/C-Band%20World.htm It does seem like a good option and the park I call my back yard would have plenty of room for such a thing...
Back in the day before everything was encrypted C-band dishes were like the satellite equivalent of a debug system. If you knew when and where to point the dish you could get tons of cool stuff.
