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DouglasDanger
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My wife and I are moving. We have lived for the past three months with my sister-in-law and her boyfriend and our niece. We are moving to a small town in rural northeast Pennsylvania(USA). We want to get internet and TV. I don't watch a lot of TV, and my wife watches some shows on NBC and Fox. I enjoy playing vidjagames on the internets, so I want a fast but affordable connection. In the area, there are few options. Satellite, cable, and Verizon FIOS.
We had Comcast before we moved (we used to live near Lancaster, PA) and didn't really have anything to complain about. Comcast has yet to... infiltrate? this part of the state, so that isn't an option.
My parents have sat TV, I think DirectTV, and had it when I was growing up. My sister-in-law also has sat TV, I think hers is Dish. I think it is OK. I don't know anything about internet via sat. How reliable is it? My parents used to lose their TV service at times, although that was a few years ago.
I don't know anything about fios. One of the guys I used to work with in Lancaster had it and bitched about it constantly. He paid something like 100 dollars a month for fios internet and wasn't getting the speeds he was paying for.
Does anyone have an opinion on sat. internet? What about FIOS?
Thank you.
We had Comcast before we moved (we used to live near Lancaster, PA) and didn't really have anything to complain about. Comcast has yet to... infiltrate? this part of the state, so that isn't an option.
My parents have sat TV, I think DirectTV, and had it when I was growing up. My sister-in-law also has sat TV, I think hers is Dish. I think it is OK. I don't know anything about internet via sat. How reliable is it? My parents used to lose their TV service at times, although that was a few years ago.
I don't know anything about fios. One of the guys I used to work with in Lancaster had it and bitched about it constantly. He paid something like 100 dollars a month for fios internet and wasn't getting the speeds he was paying for.
Does anyone have an opinion on sat. internet? What about FIOS?
Thank you.
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The thing about satellite is that they'll have an installer at your house within the next couple of hours, even if its christmas morning during a blizzard. Unfortunately the customer service takes a sharp drop from there - It took me a year and a police report to finally get Directv to cancel my old account (they kept reopening it every few months even though I had sent back all the equipment and paid a bill labeled "this is your final bill"). They also keep credit card info on file forever - like say your friend was late and gave you the cash to phone in a payment with your card, don't do it, if your friend ever misses a payment again they will charge your card again.
I get 30 channels, most are digital including CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC and more in HD. Be sure to first look online for a map of over the air broadcast locations and see that you get the channels you want in your area.
It sucked, horribly.