Official Cord Cutting Thread

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it was the Comcast router
It's always the Comcast router!!! The ones they supply are terrible and if you get 6 months outa one then you might as well play the lottery. Don't get me wrong, some people don't use the internet for more than browsing and email so the ComCrap router is fine.

I believe I reccomended the nighthawk 1900 earlier in this thread but I could be wrong. I usually do reccomend that however because if you wanna cut the cord you might as well give back all the rental equipment as well.
 
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I’ll be doing it at the end of this month. I decided to go with YouTubeTV. Yes they just raised prices but the channel selection and DVR built in make it the most cost effective one for me.
 
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I thought this thread was going to be about when one of the kids finally leave home .
 
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Many companys (such as Spectrum) "rent" you fairly lousy devices. Long term, it is cheaper to buy your own devices (Do a bit of Googling to make sure that they are compatible). They are fairly easy to configure and IMHO are superior to the provided hardware.

After about 6 months, you're ahead when you buy the hardware yourself.
 
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It's always the Comcast router!!! The ones they supply are terrible and if you get 6 months outa one then you might as well play the lottery. Don't get me wrong, some people don't use the internet for more than browsing and email so the ComCrap router is fine.

I believe I reccomended the nighthawk 1900 earlier in this thread but I could be wrong. I usually do reccomend that however because if you wanna cut the cord you might as well give back all the rental equipment as well.
Yup, my wife is an electrical engineer I usually let her handle that stuff but we definitely should have dumped that Comcast router long ago. Comcast is a difficult company to work with anyway. They were charging me for the rental equipment I couldn’t return during covid as their stores were closed. I tried calling but due to covid no one was answering the phone. It was like a joke on me. I got it straightened out and everything was refunded but it took months. I won’t dump on them as I’m sure many people use them and like them but I am very happy to be done with them. I am still paying my Netflix bill to them, I tried ordering it through at and t but I guess since it was through the Comcast internet thing they grabbed the order. That will be the next issue I remedy should have it all taken care of late December
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I’ll be doing it at the end of this month. I decided to go with YouTubeTV. Yes they just raised prices but the channel selection and DVR built in make it the most cost effective one for me.
In laws just did YTtv and they like it so far. Both AT&T and sling are priced well, have great selections and cloud dvr. You can't go wrong these days.
 
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Many companys (such as Spectrum) "rent" you fairly lousy devices. Long term, it is cheaper to buy your own devices (Do a bit of Googling to make sure that they are compatible). They are fairly easy to configure and IMHO are superior to the provided hardware.

After about 6 months, you're ahead when you buy the hardware yourself.

I did this and then Spectrum started raising speeds on me without notice and fried my cablemodem. Had to buy a new one. So make sure that it is not only compatible but it's rated for the speed you expect to use it with.
 
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Last week. Using fire stick, I went to HBO Go to continue my “The Wire” binge. After trial and error and finally getting a service person from WOW cable on the phone, I learned that HBO had cut off access to Cable subscribers. This drive to HBO Max has really pissed off a lot of people including myself. I had gotten rid of my land line in May. By Friday of last week, I had switched to 500MBS service for $65/Month, from WOW. So now I have Firestick, Netflix and CBS all access (which is pretty lame accept for the Star Trek content), f..k HBO and I may get Google TV. I figure I’m going to save at least $150 per month. Plan to use the now reopened library more also. I suspect some of the Cable providers want you to go internet only. Its prolly more profitable since they don't need to pay out to all the content providers. Bottom line I was paying $300 per month cable bill for stuff I rarely watch. Liberating. I don’t count Amazon Prime as part of the new scenario since its benefits far beyond TV.
 
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At&t includes HBO for free if you're an at&t cell customer. Not to rub it in Haha.
 
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At&t includes HBO for free if you're an at&t cell customer. Not to rub it in Haha.
I was talking HBO GO / Max. I was paying $19 a month to WOW for HBO only to learn that I was now expected to subscribe to another HBO service to access their huge content library. Hmm ... ATT is another big monthly bill ... I will delve. Might be the same story though.
 
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I thought hbo go was just an app for hbo customers to use their service on the go (no pun intended) In other words if you payed extra to your cable company to have hbo then you could access it via a tablet if you were on a plane for example. Maybe this is something different outside of my cable region cause I'm not following.
 
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I thought hbo go was just an app for hbo customers to use their service on the go (no pun intended) In other words if you payed extra to your cable company to have hbo then you could access it via a tablet if you were on a plane for example. Maybe this is something different outside of my cable region cause I'm not following.


It’s a separate service.
HBO GO is the stand alone HBO that you can buy, it is also the name of the Remote access to HBO if you have it On your cable plan.
HBO MAX is additional content not on the cable channel, some is new content and some is content not available on HBO but it contains everything on HBO go.
HBO figures if people are willing to pay for Apple TV and Paramount TV etc why can’t they build another revenue stream.
 
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I thought hbo go was just an app for hbo customers to use their service on the go (no pun intended) In other words if you payed extra to your cable company to have hbo then you could access it via a tablet if you were on a plane for example. Maybe this is something different outside of my cable region cause I'm not following.
Until recently all you had to do to use Go was buy it or prove you were a cable subscriber. I accessed via Firestick. Now you have the pleasure of paying the cable co and paying for Max since Go is being discontinued. The most gutless thing is that the message you get blames the cable provider which is BS.
 
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Until recently all you had to do to use Go was buy it or prove you were a cable subscriber. I accessed via Firestick. Now you have the pleasure of paying the cable co and paying for Max since Go is being discontinued. The most gutless thing is that the message you get blames the cable provider which is BS.
Go is not being discontinued, you just need to use the MAX app to access it... Yeah, they are really shitting the bed on the messaging of this. The GO app is being discontinued and you use the MAX app to access GO while MAX is an add on...
 
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Until recently all you had to do to use Go was buy it or prove you were a cable subscriber.
This makes perfect sense. I definitely used it before by just logging in with my cable co credentials (att now) on a tablet. This was a while ago and since I have the hbo right on att via firestick I really have no need to use a stand alone app when it's all in one.

Side note: I googled this earlier and there's an "HBO Max" "HBO Go" and an "HBO Now"

I put the phone down and gave up trying to figure this out lol.
 
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Go is not being discontinued, you just need to use the MAX app to access it... Yeah, they are really shitting the bed on the messaging of this. The GO app is being discontinued and you use the MAX app to access GO while MAX is an add on...
Shitting the bed indeed. No access through Amazon or Roku either.
 
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Shitting the bed indeed. No access through Amazon or Roku either.
I still get hbo via amazon...but I pay via amazon.
I thought the fire stick and Roku get the hbo max app which you can use for hbo go.
 
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I still get hbo via amazon...but I pay via amazon.
I thought the fire stick and Roku get the hbo max app which you can use for hbo go.
Nope... Max is not on either platform.