The Official Status Update Thread #226 Tis the Season

[mom45]

We have 10 Mbps.

55 a month for internet. 13.99 for Netflix and 99 cents for Hulu. I pay annually for prime so we watch a lot thru that and the free apps that come with it. I get a lot of stuff shipped for free so it is worth it.

 

[target64]

We were over $225 a month with xfinity. Dropped cable so internet runs $110. I think Yellowstone early seasons are on Amazon prime.

 

[Jaybird1980]

Here's how ours breaks down. "Fast" is the 300 mbps internet service. With taxes, it comes to $212 and change.

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[target64]

Need to get my colors dialed in. Took out way too much blue.

 

[Jaybird1980]

We have 10 Mbps.

55 a month for internet. 13.99 for Netflix and 99 cents for Hulu. I pay annually for prime so we watch a lot thru that and the free apps that come with it. I get a lot of stuff shipped for free so it is worth it.

Right. We had like 5 Mbps for years. We just switched and now we get almost 13:

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Howdy target!

 

[target64]

good day DD and all others

 

[target64]

I think we pay around $25 for tv now. Work pays for Amazon Prime,
Netflix--9.99
Disney-- 9.99
Peacock--6

 

[mom45]

Right. We had like 5 Mbps for years. We just switched and now we get almost 13:

They bumped us to 10 several years ago when I complained about it being slower than dial up. Speed tests show it is more like 7 or 8 but at least it isn't constantly buffering.

 

[Jaybird1980]

They bumped us to 10 several years ago when I complained about it being slower than dial up. Speed tests show it is more like 7 or 8 but at least it isn't constantly buffering.

You said you have Verizon phones right? How good of signal do you get?

 

[target64]

I am running around 260 download and 12 upload
I was not happy when we lost the local channel streaming. But we just get them over antenna

 

[mom45]

You said you have Verizon phones right? How good of signal do you get?

We have a Verizon tower we can see from the house so it is pretty good.

 

[Jaybird1980]

We have a Verizon tower we can see from the house so it is pretty good.

We ended up getting Internet from Verizon. We get good signal, but my phone still drops calls in the house or garage, texts are just fine. The internet seems to work good though.

 

[mom45]

At the daughter's house it is spotty. They got a hotspot type router from gotw3 for their internet.
Nothing else would work and Centurylink was supposed to set up service and then at the last minute said phone only. They had set up the account and everything. These kids apparently don't balance their checkbook. They realized about a month ago that centurylink has been taking a monthly payment out of their account since April. I need to ask if they got the refund check yet.

 

[mom45]

We ended up getting Internet from Verizon. We get good signal, but my phone still drops calls in the house or garage, texts are just fine. The internet seems to work good though.

So is it a hotspot? I have a verizon prepaid phones so a hotspot was kind of expensive to add. I pay 54 a month for two phones.

 

[Jaybird1980]

The Verizon home internet is pretty new for around here. I think it came available this summer. That's when we got it.

 

[Jaybird1980]

So is it a hotspot? I have a verizon prepaid phones so a hotspot was kind of expensive to add. I pay 54 a month for two phones.

No, it called Home LTE I think. Has a router. We had the old hotspot setup before it was garbage.

 

[mom45]

No, it called Home LTE I think. Has a router. We had the old hotspot setup before it was garbage.

Not available at our address currently.

 

[Jaybird1980]

Not available at our address currently.

Call them. We kept getting advertisement for it and then it said it's unavailable in our area when we went online (still says unavailable). The wife ended up calling them and it's apparently available to us. We've had it since August I think.

 

[mom45]

Call them. We kept getting advertisement for it and then it said it's unavailable in our area when we went online (still says unavailable). The wife ended up calling them and it's apparently available to us. We've had it since August I think.

I am honestly afraid to cancel centurylink because there are so many trees that nothing else seems to work here. If we cancel, we will never be able to get it back. They have way too many people hooked up and no new accounts are available.