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jwinslow said:
I ended up getting a router that could be configured to limit how much bandwidth each device gets, so I could limit her total upload and download bandwidth. After that I was able to game again without severe lag.
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You savage mother fucker.
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Okay this is totally not real, I would never do such a thing.

Set up an LLC for the family, add as many lines as possible.

Each line as corporate and costs $10 per month unlimited, add everyone. . . crack phones to work on the line.

Yeah. . .
 
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I have recently upgraded to a fiber optic line and have been streaming Netflix. I have a smart Sony dvd Blue Ray player which has WiFi and enables me to have a internet connection and check how streaming movies work. And possibly going away from even DirecTV. I could see a time in the near future where just using a fiber optic line for all my needs would bring my costs down. $29.95 for 5mps. currently. $39.95 for 30 mps.
 
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kinch said:
Fancy. How do those things work?
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I have walls of adobe so running new wires is just not an option.
No internet connection for my DirecTV, which works fine.
Now I have a WiFi internet portal with my DVD player. Works great.
Everything has been upgraded.
New TP Link router. Fiber optic line. 5mps. Have my music on a network drive.
Waiting to see what my provider will charge for TV. They aren't there yet.
So many changes at once have kept me busy!
Buckeye Planet didn't like Internet Explorer so now I've switched to Chrome. That works!
 
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Taosman said:
I have walls of adobe so running new wires is just not an option.
No internet connection for my DirecTV, which works fine.
Now I have a WiFi internet portal with my DVD player. Works great.
Everything has been upgraded.
New TP Link router. Fiber optic line. 5mps. Have my music on a network drive.
Waiting to see what my provider will charge for TV. They aren't there yet.
So many changes at once have kept me busy!
Buckeye Planet didn't like Internet Explorer so now I've switched to Chrome. That works!
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I feel you! In Boston all my places had to have hard wiring, gas, electricity, everything along the walls because the buildings were built before such tech.

Sounds like you figured it out. :)
 
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jwinslow said:
RE: Internet streaming speeds

Our household only has two consumers:

1) My wife - who is often streaming something (hulu, netflix, etc)

2) Me - gaming, streaming a sports game, or playing music while I work


My purchased internet speed: 50 mb down, 2 mb up

My actual internet speed: 25 mb down, 1.9 mb up


This works fine for us, though I do notice some quality loss of video at times when it's busier (though I never know if that's my bandwidth or the ISP throttling it).


Do not lose sight of the upload speeds. Everyone gets caught up in the download, but when my wife first switched from regular TV to netflix, she slaughtered my ability to game because she ate up the bandwidth. I ended up getting a router that could be configured to limit how much bandwidth each device gets, so I could limit her total upload and download bandwidth. After that I was able to game again without severe lag.
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You are in the Central Ohio area right Jwins? I went back to TWC early in the summer (about the same time as the TWC/Charter merger) Just me and the wife here, with two smart TVs, two phones and three computers, and my 50mb plan averages 60=70 down and 6-8 up. They kept calling me after I cancelled last year with offers, and I finally took them up on Phone/TV/internet for 89 bucks a month for two years. With a few extras I added I'm right around 100 bucks a month (plus Netflix subscription) I've actually been pretty happy with them since I went back.
I'm up in the NW part of the state about 30 miles west of Toledo, part of TWC's "Mid-Ohio" region.
 
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jwinslow said:
total cost per Month? Bandwidth?
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I don't know the set up costs, my brother in law did it. We each pay 10 dollars a month, unlimited, on T-mobile. You have to buy a phone for the network though at full cost, or do as I did, buy any phone on ebay and crack it.

My wife's family and I are on the plan. Her siblings, a few others, her parents, etc.
 
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I am going to display my stupidity here:

I took care of a hot girl. She needed a phone. Fine, on my plan. She lost her iphone, I think twice, and it was cheaper to add a new data free line for two years than to buy a new one. Okay, I have three or four lines now. I was rich then, I didn't look. Then I dated this Argentinian girl, she looks almost exactly like the girl from deadpool. What could I do? She needed a phone. Five lines or something at that point.

When I finally looked at my bill I was WTF?!?! Yeah. So anyway, I switched.
 
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kinch said:
I don't know the set up costs, my brother in law did it. We each pay 10 dollars a month, unlimited, on T-mobile. You have to buy a phone for the network though at full cost, or do as I did, buy any phone on ebay and crack it.

My wife's family and I are on the plan. Her siblings, a few others, her parents, etc.
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Oh ok, you're talking cellular. I thought you had some sneaky deal for internet bandwidth. Yes, there are a lot of family plans out there for cell phones. It used to be underhanded, these days they sell it in commercials.
 
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kinch said:
I am going to display my stupidity here:

I took care of a hot girl. She needed a phone. Fine, on my plan. She lost her iphone, I think twice, and it was cheaper to add a new data free line for two years than to buy a new one. Okay, I have three or four lines now. I was rich then, I didn't look. Then I dated this Argentinian girl, she looks almost exactly like the girl from deadpool. What could I do? She needed a phone. Five lines or something at that point.

When I finally looked at my bill I was WTF?!?! Yeah. So anyway, I switched.
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Did you switch to a hotter model? Or a more responsible one?
 
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jwinslow said:
Oh ok, you're talking cellular. I thought you had some sneaky deal for internet bandwidth. Yes, there are a lot of family plans out there for cell phones. It used to be underhanded, these days they sell it in commercials.
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I cracked mine with unlimited data and used it as a port for both of my computers at home too. Free. Just saying.

Oh, and the courts ruled it is legal. It just isn't. . . suggested.
 
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