Cable + Internet Conundrum

[Anonymous]

So, we currently pay $300/month for Verizon Fios tv and the highest speed internet they offer (we both work remotely so need reliable internet).

DH called Verizon to see what the options might be to reduce this cost. Unsurprisingly, there weren't very many options that cut the cost enough that he found.

He then looked into YouTube TV and Comcast - but said the cost difference would not be significantly less/month.

What do you use for TV/Internet at a lower monthly cost? We predominantly watch from streaming subscriptions, a handful of cable channels (hockey, news, HGTV, NBC, ABC, CBS etc).

Would love some other reliable options to investigate.

Thank you!!

[Anonymous]

We pay:

$40 FiOS internet 300/300
$15 Netflix
$15 Hulu plus Disney
$10 Amazon

For local channels we use antenna. It’s spotty but only use it for nfl games.

We also work from home and the 300/300 is plenty fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, we currently pay $300/month for Verizon Fios tv and the highest speed internet they offer (we both work remotely so need reliable internet).

DH called Verizon to see what the options might be to reduce this cost. Unsurprisingly, there weren't very many options that cut the cost enough that he found.

He then looked into YouTube TV and Comcast - but said the cost difference would not be significantly less/month.

What do you use for TV/Internet at a lower monthly cost? We predominantly watch from streaming subscriptions, a handful of cable channels (hockey, news, HGTV, NBC, ABC, CBS etc).

Would love some other reliable options to investigate.

Thank you!!

High speed does not equal greater reliability. I kind of doubt you need 1Gb speed but I don’t know your situation, obviously. I pay $90/month for 300/300 fios internet but do not subscribe to their tv service.

If you’re just editing documents, doing email, video meetings etc, you can downgrade your speed quite a bit. If you have kids they might be more affected than you though.

[Anonymous]

Op here

Yeah - we have kids who stream youtube and play video games which is why we haven't downgraded the internet thus far.

[Anonymous]

Fiber is by far the more reliable option when compared with cable. If that matters to you, I suggest not switching to a different Internet service. I have no opinion on television service, as I use an antenna.

[Anonymous]

We find 25/25 is fine for 2 people WFH — but we do not stream videos during work hours. That does support things like Teams meetings/calls during work hours.

[Anonymous]

The catch with cable Internet is that it is asymmetric.

The download speeds often are good, maybe 100 Mbps or more, but their upload speeds are pretty awful, maybe 10-15 Mbps (occasionally more, but more often less than that).

For WFH, an uplink speeds often of 20-30 Mbps often is needed, especially with VTCs, Teams, or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The catch with cable Internet is that it is asymmetric.

The download speeds often are good, maybe 100 Mbps or more, but their upload speeds are pretty awful, maybe 10-15 Mbps (occasionally more, but more often less than that).

For WFH, an uplink speeds often of 20-30 Mbps often is needed, especially with VTCs, Teams, or whatever.

OP has 1Gb which is total overkill. YouTube doesn’t need much, and most games don’t either until you need to download an 180GB COD update. Gaming itself doesn’t need anything like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, we currently pay $300/month for Verizon Fios tv and the highest speed internet they offer (we both work remotely so need reliable internet).

DH called Verizon to see what the options might be to reduce this cost. Unsurprisingly, there weren't very many options that cut the cost enough that he found.

He then looked into YouTube TV and Comcast - but said the cost difference would not be significantly less/month.

What do you use for TV/Internet at a lower monthly cost? We predominantly watch from streaming subscriptions, a handful of cable channels (hockey, news, HGTV, NBC, ABC, CBS etc).

Would love some other reliable options to investigate.

Thank you!!

Why not FIOS + Youtube TV?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here

Yeah - we have kids who stream youtube and play video games which is why we haven't downgraded the internet thus far.

You only need 5-7 Mbps for 1080p video and 15-18 Mbps for 4K video. You could run four 4K streams and never break 70 Mbps.

With video games, the signal either gets there or it doesn't. They are not sending the entire screen of video over the wire. Just coordinates for ray-tracing, polygons, and shading, to render onscreen, and that's highly compressed.

You're oversold, like most of America.