We did that for a while. Eventually, I guess they decided they didn't want our business any longer, because they refused to lower. We payed their new rate for a few months until we'd had enough and cancelled service. We went without for a month until I set up Sling.
Ah ok. I haven't run into that problem yet. If I do I'll probably switch to a streaming service. No way I'd pay the post promotion rate over a long period of time..
Yep. We started with them in 2011. This last spring, after working with us on pricing for 5 years, they refused. I'm not sure why. "This is our price. Take it or leave it." We took it for a couple more months. Then left it.
That's strange. Guess every customer service rep is different. I'm assuming you tried more than one rep? I just recently got the AT&T GigaPower internet. Mine was out for 2 days and they credited me for the 2 days no questions asked. Maybe it's because I'm a new account..
We went through several layers of supervision on the phone. Or at least that's what they were telling us. He could have just been handing the phone to his buddy in the next cubicle. Who knows. But the unpaid amount would roll over to the next bill, and we'd call them again and go through the same argument: "We're not paying for the two weeks of no-service." And it would roll over to the next bill and get compounded with every new outage. I don't know. Maybe they are saturated in this area and don't care if they lose a few clients who, in their minds, owe them money because they kept a port open, even if no data was flowing through it.
I had a fight with AT&T for years because they let a third party charge my landline for some service I had never used or asked for & were trying to make me work with that other company that you couldn't get in touch with.
is your hd antenna an indoor or outdoor antenna? this is the only thing we haven't done, because honestly we never watch broadcast channels and the only time i watch cbs is when bama is playing.
This is the one I have and have it mounted on the back of the TV to hide. I live in a pretty good reception area so haven't experienced any issues with the placement.
thanks. i may give that a try next season. i didn't realize until today that an indoor antenna was an option
grab a pair of old rabbit ears and see what you can get. I'm 30 milesish north of you and get 16/18 channels here depending on conditions with old rabbit ears. Many of the channels are useless but I do get them. you can go to antennaweb.org and it will show you based on zipcode or address exactly what you can get with what kind of antenna. For me it says I can get 4 channels so it appears to be overly conservative
Make sure you watch some sports - especially something like football with lots of action on the screen - and make sure you don't see any compression artifacts. I've not tried all the services, but while my connection easily exceeds what's needed to stream HD at 60 FPS (several times over, in fact) I still haven't found a streaming service that wasn't visually degraded from cable.
Yup, I plan to do that with some of the Olympic coverage. Not all services stream at 60FPS at the moment, but they all seem to be moving in that direction. I know from watching online streams of Bama games that the connection quality can be quite variable, but I haven't evaluated that yet.
