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I have not lived in the states for 6 years. I have not really had an opportunity to watch real tv all this time. I have the Armed Forces Network which is satellite based. I hardly have reception lately because of all the wind an rain. There are 10 channels total with two of them sports and one the tv guide
What do most people there have? Do you get good reception with Direct/Dish tv? When I lived in Texas, most people had cable. How expensive is it now? What are some of the companies to choose from? My friend in florida pays $80 a month for cable. That seems really expensive to me. I appreciate your input.
for cable you have two choices: Knology or Midcontinent. both are nearly identical in prices and offered services. I receive my Internet through Knology, and well..... lets just say it leaves alot to be desired (gaming demands some pretty serious stuff). due to where one of my roomies works, we also get free directv. its alot better then cable as far as channels are concerned, and reception is excellent. only time we have issues is when its blizzarding out, and snow starts to accumulate on the dish.... even then its easy to fix: just sweep off the snow and BAM high-def tv is back in full swing.
.... I receive my Internet through Knology, and well..... lets just say it leaves alot to be desired (gaming demands some pretty serious stuff).
Not to hijack this but.. NEVA is the issue that you can't get enough bandwidth, or is the fact that you have alot of outages. My wife works from home, I don't need alot of speed.. but I need a lot of reliability.
Not to hijack this but.. NEVA is the issue that you can't get enough bandwidth, or is the fact that you have alot of outages. My wife works from home, I don't need alot of speed.. but I need a lot of reliability.
Thanks
i have the bandwidth i need (aprox 5mbps), but my pings are high when when connecting to something out of state, and i do get outages alot during the nighttime hours. we do have noticeably less bandwidth between 5 pm and 10 pm, as well as the entire first week of august (sturgis bike week). my pings are what bothers me the most, because as a gamer, i need pings of less then 100 ms, and all to often i have these nasty lag spikes, and i will see pings of 2000 ms, and shortly there after lose my connection to the games server, but still have a Internet connection.
You may have signed up for the 5mbps but that doesn't mean that you're receiving it all......Especially with the times you mention it appears that Knology doesn't have enough power to handle that many people logging on at once. Also, depending on what games you play you may want to look at port fowarding for your router. I know when I played Starcraft, I had to do that on my wireless router so that I was able to host because I had latency issues.....
My mom has phone, HDTV cable, movie channels, and internet with Knology and she pasy about $120 per month. She also has cable in 3 rooms. I don't know if that costs more though.
In RC if you get Directv you DO NOT get locals included - they are not available in our area via directv - with Dish you do - when our Directv contract ran out (came with it from Denver) we switched over to Dish to get locals included and it has been so much better - love dish It was a huge pain the last year waiting for our contract to run out and not having locals via the directv!
We do our phone and internet via Midco - just switched over a few months ago from Knology.
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It was a huge pain the last year waiting for our contract to run out and not having locals via the directv!
