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What tv and Internet combo is best?

Discussion in 'Off-Topic Discussion' started by tacomathunder, Dec 16, 2014.

  1. Dec 16, 2014 at 12:48 PM
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    tacomathunder

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    I'm in Florida and looking at xfinity and att uverse... Don't really know which one to go with, anyone have any experience?
     
  2. Dec 16, 2014 at 12:51 PM
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    AT&T, stay away from Comcast (xfinity).
     
  3. Dec 16, 2014 at 12:51 PM
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    I had u verse and thought it was horrible. I now have Cox (local Internet provider) and directv and like that much better
     
  4. Dec 16, 2014 at 12:52 PM
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    I agree that Comcast is terrible too some friends have it. Maybe get Comcast Internet and direct TV
     
  5. Dec 16, 2014 at 3:27 PM
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    I might split and go xfinity Internet for the speed but uverse tv
     
  6. Dec 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM
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    The UI for Uverse TV is so fucking bad it makes me want to punch myself in the dick. The latency will drive you absolutely batshit. You press a button and wait for something to happen and nothing does, so you press it again but while you were pressing it a second time the system actually decided to react to your first press. Buts that's right, you just pressed it a second time which negates the first time you pressed it which puts you right back to where you started. Happens all the time and drives me crazy.

    I'm in the process of moving and ditching TV altogether, F that noise. I'll take my new found time to go outside and play with guns.
     
  7. Dec 16, 2014 at 6:37 PM
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    ^^^^ LOL I too have been there, Hated UVERSE so much
     
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    I have Uverse. Yes, I too want to punch myself in the dick at times.

    Now it's to the point where the Wireless aspect for the cell phones in the house is completely gone. I have no idea what happened to it... But now none of our phones connect to the WiFi and our phone bill last month was over $300 because everyone went over on the 3G data. It's a bunch of bullshit and we are switching to something else very soon.
     
  9. Dec 16, 2014 at 7:10 PM
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    Usually when there are delays from the remote to the box it's the 2-way signal levels. Sometimes it could also be back eq.
     
  10. Dec 17, 2014 at 5:16 AM
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    My wife and i ditched satellite TV like 7 years ago, we just have OTA with an antenna in the attic. Sometimes i would find myself missing it, then we'd stay in a hotel with several hundred channels to choose from and there still wasn't anything worth watching. Unfortunately we also dont have any ISPs in the boonies so our only internet option is mobile broadband (Verizon) on our phones, and it's such a weak signal that sometimes it doesn't even work.
     
  11. Dec 17, 2014 at 5:22 AM
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    I had Uverse, worked fine...but I'm not home enough to justify the $150 for cable and I-net. I'm down to ~$50 now that's I-net and Hulu & Netflix
     
  12. Dec 17, 2014 at 9:41 AM
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    We had Uverse before we moved and now cox. I personally don't watch much if any TV unless its Netflix but the internet was decent being landline (direct of sorts) connected I could pull 22 mb download and a minimal ping under 10 and ours never dropped. Hope that helps some



    Now the people before saying wireless was completely gone would likely be the router itself needed reset or replaced.
     
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    Maybe a punching bag would be best.

    I got Dish Network and Verizon Fios and I'm here in SoCal
     
  14. Dec 17, 2014 at 9:55 AM
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    all we can get where we live is verizon dsl it's pretty slow most of the time.
     
  15. Dec 17, 2014 at 10:51 AM
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    What about uverse tv, and xfinity Internet
     
  16. Dec 17, 2014 at 11:08 AM
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    uverse, I think is DSL, is not as fast as Xfinity cable internet. I had so much service interruption with Uverse, worse than I do with DirecTV. I would not recommend Uverse TV at all.
     

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