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I’m thinking of a combination of high speed internet, a Roku, YouTube Tv, Philos, & Netflix to kill the cable bill. Viewing their channels they’re missing SNY, YES, & NESN. How do I get those?
 
Do we have a problem for UConn & the Big East on Youtube in CT?

This was a difficult decision made after months of negotiations. We hope we can bring FOX RSNs back in the future. We thank you for your membership as we work to make YouTube TV the best streaming experience. You will receive an email today if you are impacted by this change.
 
GemParty said:
Do we have a problem for UConn & the Big East on Youtube in CT?

This was a difficult decision made after months of negotiations. We hope we can bring FOX RSNs back in the future. We thank you for your membership as we work to make YouTube TV the best streaming experience. You will receive an email today if you are impacted by this change.
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Bumped into this. Not cool but hope it helps. Where exactly are our games?

Let’s back up a little bit and make a distinction: YouTube TV has not dropped the national FS1 and FS2 sports channels, which are owned by Fox Corporation. Fox regional sports networks (or RSNs), despite their name, were acquired by Sinclair last year, when Disney divested the networks as part of its 21st Century Fox acquisition.

Anyway, since Sinclair took over those regional sports networks, it’s lost several distribution deals. Dish Network dropped Fox RSNs from both its satellite service and Sling TV streaming service over the summer and doesn’t seem eager to get them back. FuboTV, which once prided itself on its sports programming, quietly dropped Fox RSNs in early January, and PlayStation Vue shut down later that month.
 
We don't have any FSN's in CT anymore. YES was kinds , sorta one but they don't do UConn.
 
Waquoit said:
We don't have any FSN's in CT anymore. YES was kinds , sorta one but they don't do UConn.
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Are you thinking all our men’s games tv are FS1 and SNY now?
 
GemParty said:
Are you thinking all our men’s games tv are FS1 and SNY now?
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I'm not sure. There may be games on My9 like before. And that stinks for me because I don't get that channel OTT.
 
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So I was just minding my own business, when Xfinity sends me a nite that I’m at 75% of my data limit for the month. There are three days left so maybe I’m overreacting but I don‘t like this at all.

We have the triple play package or whatever. But aside from sports, our TV watching is way down. We already subscribe to Prime, Netflix, Disney+ (with Hulu and ESPN+) and HBOMax, on top of cable. We have Apple TV too, free because of a new iPhone.

The wrinkle is that my wife insists that we have and keep our main home phone line. So the bundles have been better than cord cutting. I can get Fios or Xfinity internet. No phone with Fios unless I get TV. I’m looking at Ooma For phone. Does anybody use that?

I my be time to cut the cord. Are the strong views on Hulu+ vs YouTubeTv or others?
 
HuskyHawk said:
So I was just minding my own business, when Xfinity sends me a nite that I’m at 75% of my data limit for the month. There are three days left so maybe I’m overreacting but I don‘t like this at all.

We have the triple play package or whatever. But aside from sports, our TV watching is way down. We already subscribe to Prime, Netflix, Disney+ (with Hulu and ESPN+) and HBOMax, on top of cable. We have Apple TV too, free because of a new iPhone.

The wrinkle is that my wife insists that we have and keep our main home phone line. So the bundles have been better than cord cutting. I can get Fios or Xfinity internet. No phone with Fios unless I get TV. I’m looking at Ooma For phone. Does anybody use that?

I my be time to cut the cord. Are the strong views on Hulu+ vs YouTubeTv or others?
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I like Youtube+ as I have tried the rest and it has solid sports and I enjoy TBS and TNT which they have and unlimited DVR for nine months
 
HuskyHawk said:
So I was just minding my own business, when Xfinity sends me a nite that I’m at 75% of my data limit for the month. There are three days left so maybe I’m overreacting but I don‘t like this at all.

We have the triple play package or whatever. But aside from sports, our TV watching is way down. We already subscribe to Prime, Netflix, Disney+ (with Hulu and ESPN+) and HBOMax, on top of cable. We have Apple TV too, free because of a new iPhone.

The wrinkle is that my wife insists that we have and keep our main home phone line. So the bundles have been better than cord cutting. I can get Fios or Xfinity internet. No phone with Fios unless I get TV. I’m looking at Ooma For phone. Does anybody use that?

I my be time to cut the cord. Are the strong views on Hulu+ vs YouTubeTv or others?
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Yes I have ooma. My parents lived with me for a couple of years and requested the land line, I never cancelled. You just pay taxes on it, less than $7 a month. Have never had a support issue we hardly use it.
 
I have been using Ooma for about 5 years and have never had any issue. The caveat is you have no landline if your internet goes down.
 
HuskyHawk said:
So I was just minding my own business, when Xfinity sends me a nite that I’m at 75% of my data limit for the month. There are three days left so maybe I’m overreacting but I don‘t like this at all.

We have the triple play package or whatever. But aside from sports, our TV watching is way down. We already subscribe to Prime, Netflix, Disney+ (with Hulu and ESPN+) and HBOMax, on top of cable. We have Apple TV too, free because of a new iPhone.

The wrinkle is that my wife insists that we have and keep our main home phone line. So the bundles have been better than cord cutting. I can get Fios or Xfinity internet. No phone with Fios unless I get TV. I’m looking at Ooma For phone. Does anybody use that?

I my be time to cut the cord. Are the strong views on Hulu+ vs YouTubeTv or others?
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If you're at 75% with 3 days to go you won't go over. Seems like you have quite a bit of streaming options if that's the route you decide to head in however.

Also wanted to point out the LoCast app again for local channels for streamers.
 
huskypantz said:
Yes I have ooma. My parents lived with me for a couple of years and requested the land line, I never cancelled. You just pay taxes on it, less than $7 a month. Have never had a support issue we hardly use it.
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ColchVEGAS said:
I have been using Ooma for about 5 years and have never had any issue. The caveat is you have no landline if your internet goes down.
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Thanks. We have VOIP even now, so that isn’t any different with regard to power outages. We use our house line often. Seems Ooma or Vonage would work.
 
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M.S.G. said:
If you're at 75% with 3 days to go you won't go over. Seems like you have quite a bit of streaming options if that's the route you decide to head in however.

Also wanted to point out the LoCast app again for local channels for streamers.
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Not this month, but I could. I don’t appreciate that they applied a cap to people on a previously unlimited plan. Since we rarely use cable TV anymore, this seems the time to think about it again.
 
Not trying to read through 27 pages right now. We have YouTube TV and like it quite a bit but the pricing has crept up quite a bit. Has anyone tried T-Mobile T-Vision? It has FS1 and SNY.

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HuskyHawk said:
So I was just minding my own business, when Xfinity sends me a nite that I’m at 75% of my data limit for the month. There are three days left so maybe I’m overreacting but I don‘t like this at all.

We have the triple play package or whatever. But aside from sports, our TV watching is way down. We already subscribe to Prime, Netflix, Disney+ (with Hulu and ESPN+) and HBOMax, on top of cable. We have Apple TV too, free because of a new iPhone.

The wrinkle is that my wife insists that we have and keep our main home phone line. So the bundles have been better than cord cutting. I can get Fios or Xfinity internet. No phone with Fios unless I get TV. I’m looking at Ooma For phone. Does anybody use that?

I my be time to cut the cord. Are the strong views on Hulu+ vs YouTubeTv or others?
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I cut the chord pre-pandemic (settled on Hulu because it carries the YES Network) and had never received a notification that I was getting close to my data limit and that's with two people working remote and one kid doing remote learning. I now received the same message from Xfinity a few days ago so I'm wondering what is going on. Did they change something with the packages?
 
HuskyHawk said:
Thanks. We have VOIP even now, so that isn’t any different with regard to power outages. We use our house line often. Seems Ooma or Vonage would work.
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Another option is MagicJack...It's $40/year
 
StllH8L8ner said:
I cut the chord pre-pandemic (settled on Hulu because it carries the YES Network) and had never received a notification that I was getting close to my data limit and that's with two people working remote and one kid doing remote learning. I now received the same message from Xfinity a few days ago so I'm wondering what is going on. Did they change something with the packages?
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Yes, the limits are new, announced this fall. The cap is 1.2TB. We have a couple of grace months in January and February before they would actually charge us for going over.

It will be interesting to see what happens. As people cut the cord, it is logical that the cost of bandwidth will go up. After all, it has been subsidized by those cable/phone/internet bundles. Then add people using home internet for work and school video calls for hours a day.

I'm going to build a spreadsheet to crunch the numbers on cutting the cord. Last time I did that it was going to cost me more to cut the cord.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Yes, the limits are new, announced this fall. The cap is 1.2TB. We have a couple of grace months in January and February before they would actually charge us for going over.

It will be interesting to see what happens. As people cut the cord, it is logical that the cost of bandwidth will go up. After all, it has been subsidized by those cable/phone/internet bundles. Then add people using home internet for work and school video calls for hours a day.

I'm going to build a spreadsheet to crunch the numbers on cutting the cord. Last time I did that it was going to cost me more to cut the cord.
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Thanks, I didn't see the note on the new limits. I did some number crunching a year ago and cutting the chord made sense and truthfully I'd never go back to regular cable now. But with Hulu Live, YouTube TV, etc raising their prices, the break even of streaming vs regular cable tv is inching closer.
 
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in line with this thread...anyone have a bandwidth monitoring app they like? would be great if I could track by Mac address or other granular level...
 
StllH8L8ner said:
Thanks, I didn't see the note on the new limits. I did some number crunching a year ago and cutting the chord made sense and truthfully I'd never go back to regular cable now. But with Hulu Live, YouTube TV, etc raising their prices, the break even of streaming vs regular cable tv is inching closer.
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I think in some cases it's already there...the big issue IMO is really the number of devices you need to pay for with cable. With streaming, once you have Roku there is no equip cost
 
NJHusky said:
I think in some cases it's already there...the big issue IMO is really the number of devices you need to pay for with cable. With streaming, once you have Roku there is no equip cost
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Plus you can cancel at any time hassle-free, plus you don't have to pay that $10 regional sports fee. It adds up, but the difference is definitely closer than it was a few years ago.
 
NJHusky said:
I think in some cases it's already there...the big issue IMO is really the number of devices you need to pay for with cable. With streaming, once you have Roku there is no equip cost
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Yeah a $14/month fee to 'rent' a modem really grinds my gears. I need to look into just buying one.
 
NJHusky said:
I think in some cases it's already there...the big issue IMO is really the number of devices you need to pay for with cable. With streaming, once you have Roku there is no equip cost
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This (but we have Firesticks and a PS4). When we cut the cord I was a bit disappointed with the savings, but now I'm all in on the superiority. I had two boxes with fios because of the cost. That meant that a gym and bedroom tv could only get our streaming services. Now I have access to everything, everywhere, including the aforementioned tvs, but also my ipad when "watching" stuff with my family.
 
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NJHusky said:
in line with this thread...anyone have a bandwidth monitoring app they like? would be great if I could track by Mac address or other granular level...
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Netflow.

But what are you actually looking for? if its home use you can see that in your router
 
StllH8L8ner said:
Yeah a $14/month fee to 'rent' a modem really grinds my gears. I need to look into just buying one.
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I bought an xfinity compatible gateway about 4 years ago from Best Buy. It was about $300 but I used points to partially offset it. It has since paid for itself and then some.
 
August_West said:
Netflow.

But what are you actually looking for? if its home use you can see that in your router
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THX Yes, want to see cumulative bandwidth usage by device on my home network. I noticed my internet was crazy slow this am...want to see what is hogging usage or if it's a network issue
 
NJHusky said:
THX Yes, want to see cumulative bandwidth usage by device on my home network. I noticed my internet was crazy slow this am...want to see what is hogging usage or if it's a network issue
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Log in to your router first. Any monitor app is only polling tgat data anyway
 
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