Who is your internet/cable provider? Are you satisfied?

I had Spectrum here in Nebraska and changed to their competitor as soon as they were in my neighborhood. Spectrum was very unreliable. It probably doesn't help you, but I changed to Allo, they have been much better. Not that Spectrum set a very high bar.

This thread is 2 years old but I'll give an update that might interest others.

I decided to go with T-Mobile Home Internet. No cables or dish antenna, it uses 5G cell signals.
A small LTE Wifi gateway device sits in my living room and provides a WiFi internet signal.
It's very fast - no lag or buffering for downloaded video or movies. I can upload a boat load
of photos to flickr in just a few seconds. Unlimited data.

I ran Speedtest...upload speed is 32.3 Mbps, download is 71.7 Mbps. Plenty fast for all my needs.

Cost is $50 per month, tax and other fees included. Can cancel any time without penalty.
Easy setup, no need for Larry the cable guy to visit. This is very good if you live in a rural area that
doesn't have cable, but does have cellular signal. I've been told that Verizon has a similar plan.

I use Cox internet only, no cable TV since 2016. I stream Netflix 4K content without a problem.

If you ever decide on cox (if available in your area), you will save money if just buy your own cable modem and wireless router.

I pay $67/month

I have Spectrum in Pasadena, CA. It gets crap reviews, but I have not had any problems. I consistently get over 200 Mbps and the price is pretty reasonable. I only have internet, so the constant emails and letters asking me to upgrade to a internet+cable TV package are annoying but overall, I don't have any major complaints.

I finally got my Gigabit internet connection at the end of December, my previous ISP was wireless and became pretty much useless during the day with everyone staying home. I went from .5Mbps down, during most of the day and on December 29th it jumped to 900+ up and down with no cap.

I use Pluto TV (Free) and pay Locast $5.50 a month for the Los Angeles locals. My new Internet provider charges the same as my old slow ISP.

Scrumhalf wrote in post #19178138
I have Spectrum in Pasadena, CA. It gets crap reviews, but I have not had any problems. I consistently get over 200 Mbps and the price is pretty reasonable. I only have internet, so the constant emails and letters asking me to upgrade to a internet+cable TV package are annoying but overall, I don't have any major complaints.

I use Ooma for phone service, cost $4 or so a month, I use Pluto TV which is pretty much like a cable system with over 200 channels and it costs nothing.

We gave up Dish cable in the last year. The price goes up every year, and the content goes down.
Being a grouchy old f**t, it aggravated me no end to pay $120 a month to watch 20 year old rerun programs that contained fifty per cent commercials.
Now, we use next Netflix and Hulu, which we pay for, and a lot of free Utube.
Cable TV has to one one the most over priced services out there.

Fred

Canonuser123 wrote in post #19178214
I use Ooma for phone service, cost $4 or so a month, I use Pluto TV which is pretty much like a cable system with over 200 channels and it costs nothing.

I'll take a look at Pluto TV.

Right now my two sources of content (besides youtube) are amazon prime video and Netflix.

Even though I pay $120/yr for amazon prime, I'm charged $3.99 per movie. That includes movies several years old.
I pay $13.99/month for Netflix, but I don't care for their movie selection. Try entering Tom Hanks or Clint Eastwood
into search, and very few movies from these actors are returned.

I might have to go get the big box of VHS tapes I have in my garage.

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #19201132
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Even though I pay $120/yr for amazon prime, I'm charged $3.99 per movie. That includes movies several years old.
I pay $13.99/month for Netflix, but I don't care for their movie selection. Try entering Tom Hanks or Clint Eastwood
into search, and very few movies from these actors are returned.
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I feel your pain. . Every option is either too expensive, or doesn't have enough good content, or is very expensive and still doesn't have enough good content.

Why do I feel like every single choice I have is trying to suck too much money out of me for what they have to offer?

I think a fair price is $10 a month. . If a streaming service can have enough good content that I can watch something I really want to see, whenever I want to, and charges me $10 a month, that seems fair. . That price would be commensurate with the value they are offering me. . But I cannot find any such service.

I keep signing up to various services, begrudgingly paying their price, and then after a few months I think, "this just isn't worth $13 a month - they're not giving me anywhere near $13 a month worth of content."

And so I cancel them. . Then a month or two later I get sick of not having a good movie available when I feel like watching a good movie, so I sign up to a different service ...... then a month or three later I again think, "this just isn't worth $13 a month", and so I cancel them.

This cycle keeps repeating. . Doesn't any service want to step up and offer tons of quality content for a commensurate price, and keep people like me happy so we don't cancel after a month or three?

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #19215911
Doesn't any service want to step up and offer tons of quality content for a commensurate price, and keep people like me happy so we don't cancel after a month or three?

There are lots of free services with commercials, my problem is by the time I scroll through the endless options on any of the services I am no longer am in the mood to watch anything. I am only paying $5.50 a month for Locast right now to get the Los Angeles locals, TV reception here is bad due to the Mountain between me and the transmitters. I cancelled Amazon for good after finally getting fed up with their horrible packaging, too many damaged items and I hate the having to return things because they were too stupid to properly protect them.

Free services available on most Streaming devices.

https://tubitv.com/

https://www.crackle.co​m/

https://pluto.tv/welco​me

https://www.xumo.tv/ch​annels

https://www.kanopy.com​/

https://filmrise.com/

Canonuser123 wrote in post #19215976
Free services available on most Streaming devices.

https://tubitv.com/

https://www.crackle.co​m/

https://pluto.tv/welco​me

https://www.xumo.tv/ch​annels

https://www.kanopy.com​/

https://filmrise.com/

Bookmarked, thanks!

Canonuser123 wrote in post #19215963
There are lots of free services with commercials, my problem is by the time I scroll through the endless options on any of the services I am no longer am in the mood to watch anything. I am only paying $5.50 a month for Locast right now to get the Los Angeles locals, TV reception here is bad due to the Mountain between me and the transmitters. I cancelled Amazon for good after finally getting fed up with their horrible packaging, too many damaged items and I hate the having to return things because they were too stupid to properly protect them.

I have found that the quality of the available programming is inversely proportional to the channel count, and the number of stupid unrealistic reality shows is geometrically proportional to the channel count.