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Marsupialized wrote:If you do go with the Roku, keep in kind there are all kinds of 'secret channels' to search out and add (yes, there's tons of porn)http://www.roku-channels.com/Whoa, I had no idea. Totally going to use that old Roku box hooked up to our bedroom TV more often now!

I've been using Plex for the past two months and I love it. Finally got myPlex up and running. Anyone else using myPlex and wanna share?

I've had much better luck with Comcast over AT&T. The worst thing about the former is occasionally a tech will go in our alley and disconnect our account while looking for delinquents. They give us a discount on the bill but it's still a pain.AT&T is awful, though.

I just pre-registered for this service - supposed to be coming to Chicago September 13th.https://aereo.com/aboutI can't wait to get rid of Cable TV.

Tommy wrote:A friend of mine has also pre-registered for the aereo.Anyone have any direct experience with Comcast vs AT&T? A dude showed up on our door the other night with what seemed like a decent offer. Was cheaper than Comcast and had more free movie channels. More concerned with the internet end of things. According to dude, Comcast lists higher speeds but everyone in the area has to share the bandwidth. He claimed AT&Ts is a direct line or some shit. Opinions?I have no experience with AT&T - but I'd be interested in hearing what kind of offer he was presenting. I guess I can read the shitload of mail they send me.Right now my Comcast Basic+ (Comedy Central / Adult Swim, etc - no movie channels) and Cable Modem (their track record has actually been very good here) is about $135. That's at least $50 more than I'm willing to pay.

Tommy wrote:A friend of mine has also pre-registered for the aereo.Anyone have any direct experience with Comcast vs AT&T? A dude showed up on our door the other night with what seemed like a decent offer. Was cheaper than Comcast and had more free movie channels. More concerned with the internet end of things. According to dude, Comcast lists higher speeds but everyone in the area has to share the bandwidth. He claimed AT&Ts is a direct line or some shit. Opinions?Both AT&T and Comcast will tell you things about each other's service that are about as true as your typical campaign attack ad. Comcast often offers higher bandwidth, but AT&T is usually cheaper. This always depends upon which package you go for. Both companies are about on the same level of horribleness as far as companies go. No matter which one you go with, if you have to talk to their customer service, you'll probably have an urge to talk to FM scott about hand gun ownership afterward.I have detailed this several times elsewhere on the PRF but surprisingly not in this thread, so I must repeat this here: Comcast gave me a modem with live cockroaches in it. Just want to repeat that as many times as possible whenever it fits to do so. Yep, I took home a modem from that stupid Comcast business office by North and Elston, and when I took it out of the bag, it had live fucking cockroaches in it. They basically just told me to come back again to that stupid fucking customer service center and get another one that would hopefully not have cockroaches in it. Excellent customer service. So yeah, because of that and the fact that for some reason their Internet service was useless in my home due to constantly dropping packets no matter what was done to try to rectify the situation, never going back to them.Since my last post on here I made the full switch to AT&T Uverse. It's fine. A lot cheaper than Comcast, and shit mostly just seems to work. Only quibble was that the installer dude they sent to wire me up for the service was pretty shitty. I should not have scheduled it during a time when my wife was home from work, because if I'd have been there I would have made sure the guy didn't do a shitty job. I went to go check out that aereo page but I got a DB error from their web server. I am totally racist against technology companies with fucked up web pages so I am thinking I won't bother, but otherwise I am interested...edited to add: I forgot to mention, the DSL Internet that comes with my Uverse package is fast enough. Easily able to stream HD whatever. I don't do online gaming though, so if you do that, I can't speak to any problems with lag if that is still a thing that you dorks worry about.

A friend of mine has also pre-registered for the aereo.Anyone have any direct experience with Comcast vs AT&T? A dude showed up on our door the other night with what seemed like a decent offer. Was cheaper than Comcast and had more free movie channels. More concerned with the internet end of things. According to dude, Comcast lists higher speeds but everyone in the area has to share the bandwidth. He claimed AT&Ts is a direct line or some shit. Opinions?

barndog wrote:Tommy wrote:A friend of mine has also pre-registered for the aereo.Anyone have any direct experience with Comcast vs AT&T? A dude showed up on our door the other night with what seemed like a decent offer. Was cheaper than Comcast and had more free movie channels. More concerned with the internet end of things. According to dude, Comcast lists higher speeds but everyone in the area has to share the bandwidth. He claimed AT&Ts is a direct line or some shit. Opinions?I have no experience with AT&T - but I'd be interested in hearing what kind of offer he was presenting. I guess I can read the shitload of mail they send me.Right now my Comcast Basic+ (Comedy Central / Adult Swim, etc - no movie channels) and Cable Modem (their track record has actually been very good here) is about $135. That's at least $50 more than I'm willing to pay.I believe that's what we pay for HD and medium level internet and get all the HBOs free.AT&T guy's offer was south of $100 for HD, 2 boxes, HBO added in and modem for a year. No installation fee. We asked what's it go to after a year? His response was just call AT&T and say you like the service and would like to keep it, but... and then they'll just waive the increase.Also, he said we could try it for a month alongside Comcast and cancel without penalty.

tbone wrote:Comcast gave me a modem with live cockroaches in it. Just want to repeat that as many times as possible whenever it fits to do so. Yep, I took home a modem from that stupid Comcast business office by North and Elston, and when I took it out of the bag, it had live fucking cockroaches in it. They basically just told me to come back again to that stupid fucking customer service center and get another one that would hopefully not have cockroaches in it. Excellent customer service.Interesting. They didn't even offer us a modem. We had to go buy one. No big deal, better than renting one at a couple of dollars a month forever. That service center SUCKS! Longer line/wait than any DMV I've ever been to. Ridiculous.

PEPPER! wrote:but yeah, plan on dealing with them for an hour or two every six months.We already spend about an hour every 3 or 4 months when we have to have Comcast reset something on their end...