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No cable in our town. Only one OTA tv station, not worth the effort or expense to buy a TV.
Laptops and PCs seem to work fine using the landline.
It's no longer expensive to have an HD TV that is larger than your laptop or PC monitor. To me, it's more comfortable to watch in the living room. I could do that with a laptop, but the small screen, sitting up close, isn't worth the 'savings' to me over having a 42" Smart, fully HD TV. Other people will laugh at 42" being large enough for me! I won't upgrade until this one is at the end of it's life, and 60" or higher will be less than what I paid for this at that time.
There is a library with public WiFi about 3/4 of a mile from my house. I tested out the connection with my smartphone and I could pick up the signal robustly from the parking lot and my phone stayed connected for 1/10 of a mile while driving towards my house. As the crow flies I think it is roughly 2/3 of mile from my house to the library parking lot. Does anyone know what equipment and setup I would have to use to have a chance at picking up this signal at the house? I presume some sort of outdoor WiFi antenna would be necessary, if it is possible at all. It would be great to have this as a free backup source of internet access at the house.
Sling TV Orange ($25/mo): ESPN/2/3, CNN, AMC, Comedy Central, History, BBC America, A&E, IFC, TNT, TBS, Lifetime, Disney, Travel, Bloomberg, and more.
Sling TV Sports Extra ($5/mo): ESPNU, ESPNews, Pac-12 Regional Networks, SEC/+ Network, NHL Network, NBA TV, and more.
Netflix ($11.99/mo).
OTA Antenna (less than $10): ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Fox, and about 25 other channels.
Roku (got free for signing up in advance for two months of Sling TV Orange) has FREE apps for the CW, the Roku Channel, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Sky News, Reuters, DW (Deutch World), France24, NHK, TuneIn (Local and National Radio), Pandora (Music), Smithsonian Channel, FilmRise, HaystackTV, Pluto, YouTube, Dailymotion, Sony/Crackle, Nowhere TV, and much more.
I don't feel I'm missing out on anything. News, sports, movies, tv series - I'm covered. The only thing I don't get which I wish I did is the Big Ten Network, but I can live without it (am a Pac-12 fan).
Free? the cheapest they have is $50 a month. it's cheaper to go with your cable internet.
Unless you live in ACTUAL "Google Town" - Mountain View, CA - where high-speed internet/WiFi is free to all residents. But with average rents on a 1-bedroom topping $2500-3000/mo, it's hardly worth the savings if you currently live somewhere affordable.
What's really annoying is that I live in the next town over, which is still (almost) as expensive in terms of rent, but with no free WiFi. Oh well! And to answer the OP, I just pay around $60/mo for my internet through AT&T uVerse + subscriptions to Netflix and Hulu. I actually have access to a free Hulu account as a Sprint Wireless customer, but it's the "limited commercials" plan, which should really be called SOOO MANY commercials... after about 2 months on that, I caved and re-activated my commercial-free subscription.
Total cost for the internet and Hulu/Netflix is about $80/mo, which isn't cheap per say, but much better than my old $120-150/mo packages through Comcast or AT&T. Also, you can stream most things online for free; it's just sort of a hassle if you're casting it to a television. I do it for stuff that's not available on the official services, though.
Oh, and I stream everything via the Amazon Fire Stick (living room) and Google Chromecast (bedroom). They're each around $30, but that's a one-time expense... and I greatly prefer the Fire Stick, which is why I'm considering getting a second one to replace the Chromecast.
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