DirecTV requires 2 year contract extension for the privlidge of paying them to add TV to a new room?

[Madeinhb]

Time to become a cord cutter.

[Zundfolge]

Has anyone else here dealt with this and do you have any advice... other than switching to streaming. Our constant 2Mbps doesn't support streaming very well and OTA doesn't provide the programming. Dish would be the only other option and I'm not sure if it's any better.

Keep checking with Century Link as they're adding new line all the time and can maybe get you faster than 2Mbps. Streaming is really the way to go. You're in Castle Rock, not way out in the mountains, someone is bound to offer faster internet.

Anyone know if Hughes is worth a damn?

[th3w01f]

Very little options for streaming. We typically get closer to 10Mbps but starting to see 2 - 3Mpbs during prime time. Just for work alone I use about 300GB per month.

I really wish we had Comcast, I'm going to contact them about bringing it into the neighborhood. If anyone here has a contact who we can talk to about the costs I'd love to have it. We understand that it will be 5 - 6 figures to bring it in.

The part that really bothers me is that you have to buy the equipment, pay a monthly lease for it, and they try to force you to extend your contract. With Comcast, if I wanted a new room, I went to the store, got the device and added it to my account. The other issue is that we're not getting a discount, we're in the 2nd year of or contract which is basically full price so it's not like we're even saving any $ and they won't give a discount for extending an existing contract. Your contract has to be expired to have any hope of negotiating a better price.

[Gman]

It pains me to see how much I pay for Comcast broadband....but there's really no other option for that level of service in DougCo.

[th3w01f]

It pains me to see how much I pay for Comcast broadband....but there's really no other option for that level of service in DougCo.

I'm paying $150 a month for 2x15Mbps (really more like 2x 3-12Mbps). I'd love to have the option of Comcast.

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It pains me to see how much I pay for Comcast broadband....but there's really no other option for that level of service in DougCo.

Yup.

Just got this result with X1 running in the background...

[KS63]

That's a monster connection. I'll get 115mB at my cable modem then it drops to 50 at my devices. 5mB upload speed

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That's a monster connection. I'll get 115mB at my cable modem then it drops to 50 at my devices. 5mB upload speed

It's usually 250mbs down but X1 will steal some bandwidth.

Netgear CM500
Netgear N750 router
Ethernet out to my primary PC

Wireless will drop to 50mbs over 5Ghz, 2.4Ghz pulls about 20-25mbs with a good connection. So I'm still throttled by WiFi to 50mbs max anyway.

[Shooter45]

I cancelled Comcast a few months ago and went to DirecTV for the quality and price. I went years without having cable and just streaming from Netflix and Amazon. The benefit of DirecTV, even though they have contracts, they allow you to upgrade to current specials or sales while you're still under contract. At least that's what my contract said and the installers told me the same. I'd watch for a special going on or one in the near future. Our contract from Black Friday, showed up to 4 tv's and receivers although we only needed 2. I'd call their customer service department and complain, warn them you'll seek other providers and usually with any company they'll make it right. At least that's been my experience.

[th3w01f]

I cancelled Comcast a few months ago and went to DirecTV for the quality and price. I went years without having cable and just streaming from Netflix and Amazon. The benefit of DirecTV, even though they have contracts, they allow you to upgrade to current specials or sales while you're still under contract. At least that's what my contract said and the installers told me the same. I'd watch for a special going on or one in the near future. Our contract from Black Friday, showed up to 4 tv's and receivers although we only needed 2. I'd call their customer service department and complain, warn them you'll seek other providers and usually with any company they'll make it right. At least that's been my experience.

Spoke with 3 different people including 2 levels of management and the only way we could add a new TV without extending our contract to 2020 was to pay $200 for the new box and $8 a month (even buying the box off of amazon would require a 2 year extension to activate and start paying lease). That's on top of paying $150 a month already, and they would not agree to give us any current discounts to extend. The manger's manager basically said to cancel the service (and pay the early cancellation fee) if I didn't like their policies.

I think they may treat people differently if they know you're in an area not serviced by a cable provider.