Given the choice I would have no TV, but that’s not my call. I was surprised I could convince the spouse to cut the cord - Spectrum’s sudden price hike when we went off contract did the push for me. She’s happy as heck with what she has to watch now and even finds it easier to use than the cable box, which is icing on the cake. As long as she can watch what I refer to as her “murder porn” (like Discovery Investigation stuff) all is good.
No cloud storage for me, thank you, I want to control and own my data. I use my own router with my own custom firewall rules and proxy to keep things out and in based on my rules. I have a FreeNAS server that has over 10TB of RAID based storage, so we’re good there. -D > On Nov 13, 2019, at 2:29 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I put in a ubiquiti network at home with a cloud key, security gateway, a > poe switch for the cameras (DVR is in the cloud key), a couple of wifi > access points. Seems to work great. Best part is the app where I can block > and unblock every client on the network individually. I pi-holed all the ad > sites at the firewall so they just get rejected. But the more ipad clients > I block, the more books get read by everyone, and the happier we all are. I > have been putting off getting a short throw DLP and may just put it off > indefinitely. We have no TV currently. > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 9:59 AM Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > >> Cut the cord on cable last month. Went from $220/month for >> phone/cable/Internet (undiscounted costs as we just went out of contract) >> down to a little over $100/month for nearly the same content, and no more >> land line. >> >> $60/month Internet (100/100) >> $50/month YouTube TV >> $5/month Tablo DVR >> >> This gives us a boatload of content through YouTube TV, over the air >> broadcasts with DVR functionality with the Tablo (also a feature of YTTV), >> and through various free applications like Pluto TV (400+ free channels). >> >> There’s minimal competition in this market, so if you want to pull the >> plug on your provider they just shrug their shoulders and tell you “Bye!” >> No effort for retention. >> >> Along with using Spectrum (Charter) for cable, we also moved from Verizon >> ($200/month for 4 lines) to Spectrum ($56/month for 4 lines) for our >> cellular service. Spectrum piggybacks on Verizon, so coverage is the same. >> >> -D >> >>> On Nov 13, 2019, at 12:23 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> OK so I was going to cancel my land line because all I get is spam >> calls, and keep my internet. ATT tells me just internet would be more than >> it costs as the portion of the bundle of voice+IP. BUT... they have a >> special bundle (which is the exact same bundle) for 45% less than I am >> paying now, and the total for Voice+IP will be less than I am paying now >> for the internet portion of my service, and would be less than internet >> service alone. Go figure. So I signed up for that. And they have some new >> spam blocker you can activate so I did that. It's worth a 15min call (ev _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
