Yeh, if you plan on having it for a year or more, buy your own modem rather than paying $10 a month to rent it forever. Should be able to get it on Amazon for $80 or less, just make sure it says works for comcast.
Right, but if you just buy a modem, you don't get routing, wifi, etc. Consider that when listening to the advice here.
So I'm gonna just pay for convenience and have the MF set it up for me. I don't want a hassle and I want my SL games and PSVUE immediately. I'll worry about buying my own router in a month. I'll rent this one for just a bit.
I paid the one time fee to have Frontier install a cable card in my TiVo. It was worth the money to get it right. Cable Card is a bit more complex to get working, and it's good to have an installer who can call into their own support system to get the settings on their end right. The guy also brought the cable card with him so I didn't have to wait the 3-5 business days for it to be delivered. I saved $45/month for the set top boxes I returned, but it cost me $299 one time + $15/mo (+$149 one time per bedroom/den). Breaks even in about 18 months, and the quality of using the DVR and channel guides, etc., is the best there is (TiVo).
I have a PS4 so I'm going with Vue. No DVR rental needed. Just a router and a connection. Shouldn't be that much right?
I'd get at least 25MBit, higher is better depending on what you do. Watching streams on 2 TVs at once is 2x the MBit requirements. At HD, maybe 12MBits for 2 TVs. If you have phones and tablets and can set them up to use your ComCast bandwidth while at home (over wifi), then a router with wifi is a good idea. I have t-mobile, and my phone uses the wifi to make calls, receive calls, browse the WWW and so on. Way faster and better at all these things (while I'm home) than using cellular data/calling. WWW pages load faster, and so on. You can buy a modem and a router w/wifi, or you can buy one device that has both.
dviss bud, you just chose a bad time to switch to Vue, they're upping it ten bucks a month for no good reason http://cordcuttersnews.com/playstation-vue-raises-price-packages/
I don't know of any alternatives either, I don't believe Sling has it, and idk about Youtube or Hulu tvs. If Sling was smart they'd get it to go along with the Pac 12 channel.
Motherfuckers!! Thanks for the info. Which package do I need? Just looking for blazer games. I'll do hulu/netflix on my Ps4.
Ok something came up and I had to reschedule my appt. How are people watching the game today? @Orion Bailey
