[kwlug-disc] Cutting the cord

[unsolicited]

Acanac, VMedia, some TekSavvy, are unlimited - which is part of the 
point of switching. And, DSL will never be as fast as cable. Even Fibe.

That's actually how I got grumpy - I accidentally fired up a VPN tapped 
instead of tunnelled, blew through something like 30GB of pointless 
broadcast bandwidth without knowing it in 4 days.

Then discover current Rogers plan had 80GB limit instead of 60GB, but 
they hadn't switched me. So had to swap modems (saving 20GB of overage 
charges), but in doing so was forced into a gateway, so device rental 
increased from $3 to $7. (Which I promptly put into bridged mode, so get 
no benefit from gateway - which I didn't want in the first place.)

Enough is enough.

Let alone to discover Vmedia at $15/month cheaper, and unlimited ...

Mind you, I don't internet TV / stream, or at least not yet. Pry my 
basic cable (no set top box) (have PVR) out of my cold dead hands. Some 
day I'll be forced into it, and at that point, if not before, will more 
seriously look into MythTV and/or XBMC.

Given notes here, not entirely sure what Vmedia TV will buy me, at 
$40/month vis a vis these other solutions. (It's essentially a Rogers 
set top box equivalent - without PVR, coming, or CC/DV.) I don't watch 
enough TV / non-mainstream shows to want to fiddle with satellite, OTA, 
or FTA. Internet/cable straight in and don't have to futz with the other 
stuff. Especially if internet delivery gets more and more pervasive, and 
more and more single interface. (vs ctv here, youtube there, google 
somewhere else, us/vpn other stuff ...)

Note: Rogers, and probably others, don't charge internet bandwidth of TV 
usage. (But would if you netflix'ed on them.)


On 14-02-26 10:00 PM, John Kerr wrote:
> What kind of internet service are you paying for you watch all of
> your TV on the internet? Do you ever go over your download limit?