I finally got YoutubeTV

[Dawgology]

And what?s the first thing that pops on when I turn it on? Thunder & Lightning. Love it. Beautiful HD picture.

I?m done with satellite.

[chainedup_Dawg]

I'm thinking real hard about doing this and telling direct where they can go...only thing I worry about is I have a gamer in my family and I'm worried about it buffering all the time.

[DownwardDawg]

If only rural Mississippi had internet to allow such choices.

[DownwardDawg]

I'm thinking real hard about doing this and telling direct where they can go...only thing I worry about is I have a gamer in my family and I'm worried about it buffering all the time.

Yep. Unless you have fiber, you screwed.

[DownwardDawg]

Double post

[vv83]

Funny, I’m actually going back to satellite next month. YTTV was amazing at $35. Still a good deal at $50. But with the new $15 hike it’s actually more expensive than satellite for me

[vv83]

Yep. Unless you have fiber, you screwed.

You don’t need fiber. I run it with zero problems at 30 down speed

[Turfdawg67]

Funny, I’m actually going back to satellite next month. YTTV was amazing at $35. Still a good deal at $50. But with the new $15 hike it’s actually more expensive than satellite for me

Same here. When PlayStation Vue went away, Sony heavily recommended switching to them so they probably picked up close to $50MM more per month in revenue... and then promptly raised their pricing 30% in about 6 months. Really pissed me off, and they don't care! They even posted a link for you to cancel your subscription on Twitter. My neighbor just went back to Comcast and got a 2 year agreement for less than $65/month. With 3 boxes to boot.

[Dawgology]

All we have is ATT dsl at present (5mb) but fiber is on the way (hoping within the next year). YoutubeTV actually runs pretty well with that speed as long is no one else is in the Internet. Luckily most of my streaming is done after the kids get in bed. I let them argue over fortnite during the day.

[trojandawg]

And what?s the first thing that pops on when I turn it on? Thunder & Lightning. Love it. Beautiful HD picture.

I?m done with satellite.

Just left Comcast after being with them four years. I had direct tv att before that. Att is terrible would never go back. Comcast wasn't that bad. A lot of money but less than what we were paying direct. We didn't watch much live tv and watches mostly on demand. Swapped to fiber because it was 10 more a month than what I paid for cable internet. My upload download went from like 25 and 5 to 850 and 950. We already had a bunch of streaming services and moved to Hulu live from our subscription. Saving us a bunch for our TV costs and really giving us great internet. That helps working from home. Comcast knew they were beat that was the easiest cancellation ever. Direct tv was hell cancelling. Waiting til I had already left to offer anything.

[Dawgology]

Just left Comcast after being with them four years. I had direct tv att before that. Att is terrible would never go back. Comcast wasn't that bad. A lot of money but less than what we were paying direct. We didn't watch much live tv and watches mostly on demand. Swapped to fiber because it was 10 more a month than what I paid for cable internet. My upload download went from like 25 and 5 to 850 and 950. We already had a bunch of streaming services and moved to Hulu live from our subscription. Saving us a bunch for our TV costs and really giving us great internet. That helps working from home. Comcast knew they were beat that was the easiest cancellation ever. Direct tv was hell cancelling. Waiting til I had already left to offer anything.

We are the same. I really only had Directv for watching sports but there is no sports now so I started exploring my options. Everything else we watch is on streaming services so I was basically just donating $125 per month to Directv.

I wish we had better internet but the fastest available right now is AT&T's terrible 5mb dsl service. Our local power co-op has formed a fiber internet company now though so they got a grant and have started on the fiber huts and infrastructure. Hoping to get fiber to our home by 2021 and I'm very excited about that.

[MSUDAWGFAN]

And what?s the first thing that pops on when I turn it on? Thunder & Lightning. Love it. Beautiful HD picture.

I?m done with satellite.

I left satellite in December to go to Youtube TV too. I was saving over $70 a month with the basic package on YTTV so I added both Starz and Showtime. With the recent increase, I cancelled both of those, but did add the Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN bundle at $13 a month. I am still saving significantly over satellite. As far as I'm concerned, I'll never go back, but the reality is that I would if it was cheaper than streaming. I am happy with YTTV though. Love the unlimited DVR.

[Dawgology]

I left satellite in December to go to Youtube TV too. I was saving over $70 a month with the basic package on YTTV so I added both Starz and Showtime. With the recent increase, I cancelled both of those, but did add the Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN bundle at $13 a month. I am still saving significantly over satellite. As far as I'm concerned, I'll never go back, but the reality is that I would if it was cheaper than streaming. I am happy with YTTV though. Love the unlimited DVR.

Right now we can get YTTV and DSL for about $170 per month (our paltry DSL is outrageous). Once fiber comes to our home that will be knocked down to about $125 per month...which is what I was paying for just Directv. I'm pumped.

[Hot Rock]

Right now we can get YTTV and DSL for about $170 per month (our paltry DSL is outrageous). Once fiber comes to our home that will be knocked down to about $125 per month...which is what I was paying for just Directv. I'm pumped.

I am Paying $35 unlimited internet through ATT cell towers. I am gettng 14-17 mbs downloads and live 20 miles from a town. There are towers close but not right on top of me.

Then I use a legal Amazon firestick to hook to my not smart TV's and watch just about anything i want. I have a service that I use called Pixel that cost $25 and Netflix for a total at two houses for internet at both for about $105 a month. I get every channel that I can think oft but I do have issues with internet at the lake. I am hoping that this Elon Musk internet promised in the next year or so is able to bring better internet to rural areas.

I

[DownwardDawg]

Just left Comcast after being with them four years. I had direct tv att before that. Att is terrible would never go back. Comcast wasn't that bad. A lot of money but less than what we were paying direct. We didn't watch much live tv and watches mostly on demand. Swapped to fiber because it was 10 more a month than what I paid for cable internet. My upload download went from like 25 and 5 to 850 and 950. We already had a bunch of streaming services and moved to Hulu live from our subscription. Saving us a bunch for our TV costs and really giving us great internet. That helps working from home. Comcast knew they were beat that was the easiest cancellation ever. Direct tv was hell cancelling. Waiting til I had already left to offer anything.

The minute I can dump AT&T I’m doing it. Worst run company in the world. I filed 3 separate FCC complaints within a two week period to finally get my wonderful fixed wireless working. We were without internet for 3 weeks and the technicians stood me up 3 different service calls. I sat home all day waiting on my scheduled service and never heard a word from anyone.

Anyway, I get about 30mbps download and less than 1/2 a mbps upload!! It’s garbage for my son going live with radio stations and Facebook. It’s really bad when he wants to play Xbox. Everyone else in the house has to get off WiFi.
My daughter and son in law have AT&T dsl. Same problem. Only one of them can be on it at a time.
Cspire ran fiber down 84 less than 200 yards from my house. I wish I could tap into that sucker!!

[Dawgology]

The minute I can dump AT&T I’m doing it. Worst run company in the world. I filed 3 separate FCC complaints within a two week period to finally get my wonderful fixed wireless working. We were without internet for 3 weeks and the technicians stood me up 3 different service calls. I sat home all day waiting on my scheduled service and never heard a word from anyone.

Anyway, I get about 30mbps download and less than 1/2 a mbps upload!! It’s garbage for my son going live with radio stations and Facebook. It’s really bad when he wants to play Xbox. Everyone else in the house has to get off WiFi.
My daughter and son in law have AT&T dsl. Same problem. Only one of them can be on it at a time.
Cspire ran fiber down 84 less than 200 yards from my house. I wish I could tap into that sucker!!

I wish I could find the post on facebook where a guy ran a packet loss test on our local AT&T dsl. It was almost 20% That has to be a hardware issue. Basically AT&T updates and services the densly populated areas and doesn't give a **** about rural areas because it doesn't equate to big dollars. I think most of the swith hubs used on AT&T's main line in our area are about 20 years old with no plans to upgrade.

[Hot Rock]

The minute I can dump AT&T I?m doing it. Worst run company in the world. I filed 3 separate FCC complaints within a two week period to finally get my wonderful fixed wireless working. We were without internet for 3 weeks and the technicians stood me up 3 different service calls. I sat home all day waiting on my scheduled service and never heard a word from anyone.

Anyway, I get about 30mbps download and less than 1/2 a mbps upload!! It?s garbage for my son going live with radio stations and Facebook. It?s really bad when he wants to play Xbox. Everyone else in the house has to get off WiFi.
My daughter and son in law have AT&T dsl. Same problem. Only one of them can be on it at a time.
Cspire ran fiber down 84 less than 200 yards from my house. I wish I could tap into that sucker!!

is this still happening?

https://www.androidauthority.com/what-is-starlink-1134426/ This may be my only option.

[BrunswickDawg]

I wish I could find the post on facebook where a guy ran a packet loss test on our local AT&T dsl. It was almost 20% That has to be a hardware issue. Basically AT&T updates and services the densly populated areas and doesn't give a **** about rural areas because it doesn't equate to big dollars. I think most of the swith hubs used on AT&T's main line in our area are about 20 years old with no plans to upgrade.

ATT doesn't even care about some of it's densely populated areas. They've been running fiber trunk lines all over our city for 4 years - but have never upgraded the service lines in the neighborhoods. I swear my phone line on the pole is so old its copper telegraph line LOL.

[TNDawg35]

We had YouTube TV and dropped it for sling. Sling has all the outdoor channels and my wife’s horse channels. Also can get all of the espn3 stuff when baseball starts back. Oh and Paramount for Yellowstone.

We started with Hulu, dropped it cause of the price, then went to YTTv and now at Sling.

Only bad part about sling is no locals, but we can get the cbs app from Roku channel for the Sat SEC game...

[Lord McBuckethead]

Yep. Unless you have fiber, you screwed.

Not true, necessarily. I have maxSouth and we usually have 2 other tvs streaming either youtubetv or netflix and I am playing halo5 on the xbox. Never have an issue.

[Lord McBuckethead]

We had YouTube TV and dropped it for sling. Sling has all the outdoor channels and my wife’s horse channels. Also can get all of the espn3 stuff when baseball starts back. Oh and Paramount for Yellowstone.

We started with Hulu, dropped it cause of the price, then went to YTTv and now at Sling.

Only bad part about sling is no locals, but we can get the cbs app from Roku channel for the Sat SEC game...

YTtv i believe now has paramount, and it always had espn3 access.

[DownwardDawg]

is this still happening?

https://www.androidauthority.com/what-is-starlink-1134426/ This may be my only option.

It’s still very much happening from what I hear. I got my hopes up for that too.

[Lord McBuckethead]

I wish I could find the post on facebook where a guy ran a packet loss test on our local AT&T dsl. It was almost 20% That has to be a hardware issue. Basically AT&T updates and services the densly populated areas and doesn't give a **** about rural areas because it doesn't equate to big dollars. I think most of the swith hubs used on AT&T's main line in our area are about 20 years old with no plans to upgrade.

I am ready for Elon Musk to finish his system. 1750 satelites all working together for world wide 5G type of coverage. My brother in law, who works for Comcast, thinks it is going to be a bust. But I am not sure it is.

[Captain Falcon]

I have had a very good experience with YoutubeTV. The price raise didn't bother me so much because I've only ever known MaxxSouth and DirecTV in my adult life and they both pissed me off to no end, so I'm sticking with one I know I like even if it costs a little more than it did when I signed up for it.

I'm a big fan of how flexible you can be with YTTV, I've never had a TV provider than can be used so seamlessly on multiple devices. I like the interface a lot. We run it through my PS4 in the living room but it runs well on a Fire Stick in one of our bedrooms and runs very well on my iPhone or iPad.

Could I save money and go to another provider? Yes. But saving $10-$15 a month isn't worth having to deal with the poor customer service of a cable company, and I just like what YTTV has to offer better than the other streaming services right now.

FYI: we do not have fiber internet and we use YTTV without any issues. Our download speed usually is in the 25-50 MB range, which is good but by no means the best internet speed available to us.

[80 Dawg]

I really like the ease of recording, pause, rewind, fast forward, etc. on Directv. How do streaming services like YoutubeTV compare in this regard?

[ScoobaDawg]

I really like the ease of recording, pause, rewind, fast forward, etc. on Directv. How do streaming services like YoutubeTV compare in this regard?

Youtube has what I consider the best dvr system. As far as live tv.. you can pause it and come back I believe 2-3 hours later even if you don't set it to save on your dvr. Pausing no issue. Rewind is in i believe either 10/15 second. Same with ff, put either way shows you a preview above the bar to know if you are past the commercials or not.

I will say.. I have been with YTTV since PSVue went away in jan...and am enjoying it. Not happy about the price creep but still half of what i was paying on uverse previously a couple years ago... and I'm ok not playing the games with uverse / cable company to get a compare rate. But if sports don't come back I might look into sling or hulu possibly.

Also.. I'm on on att 24mbs ... so not fiber. but it's good enough for us 2... if you have more people that are hardcore watchers, you might hit the 1tb limit for the month.

[Joebob]

Reading about all you guys still stuck on DSL makes me appreciate my Frontier fiber (I live in a big city). I'm paying out the ass for it and my cable tv package, but at least I feel like I'm living in the 21st century. The biggest ripoff is paying $30 a month for their outdated DVR and set top box, but it's incredibly convenient for channel hopping between games, so I guess as long as I can afford it I'll keep it. Hope all of you on DSL get your high speed upgrades in the near future. My friends are always asking "who the hell uses DSL anymore?" Now I guess I can tell them. :(

[Lord McBuckethead]

I really like the ease of recording, pause, rewind, fast forward, etc. on Directv. How do streaming services like YoutubeTV compare in this regard?

YoutubeTV absolutely destroys DirecTVs DVR system. Infinite space. Infinite multiple recordings at the same time. Accessible literally from everything with internet access including cell phones while on long distance trips. it has settings where it will record every single thing with MSU in the title regardless of channel. it also easily separates your shows and movies from each other when in the dvr section. It will also pause a show forever if you want. I went to Columbus and back yesterday and my live episode was still paused when I got back.

[Cooterpoot]

Luckily most of my streaming is done after the kids get in bed.

Hands above the cover sir! You'll go blind.