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[quote=Anonymous]I just spent the Thanksgiving holiday in a house whose owners cut the cord over the summer.  BIL loves it and feels like they're saving so much.  SIL hates it because the internet is so! slow! when both of their boys are gaming and she's trying to watch a streaming service.  She's mainly started downloading from Netflix to watch offline to prevent the buffering.  BIL travels a lot for work and doesn't really 'get' the issues and just sees all the savings.  I think they'll switch back in 2019 because in the end, with upgrading their internet, they are really only saving ~$50.

I know it was nearly impossible to do anything on WiFi during the holiday if the kids were gaming.  To be fair, that meant two PS4s online and one X-Box One online.  I had to have her unplug for an hour on Wednesday afternoon so that I could log on at work and check my email.  My VPN couldn't connect otherwise.

They get the local channels through a digital antenna and the picture quality is mostly okay.  Some channels are clearer than others.

I toyed with the idea a few years ago, but when I factored in Netflix, Prime, Hulu, HBO, and the price Verizon wanted to charge me to just have the internet, it was pretty much equal.  [/quote]

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