How do you watch TV?

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

By the 3rd adapter you should find one that works.

 

[scotchandcigar]

We just switched from traditional cable to fiber yesterday.
We had gotten a bill for an extra $420 for going over our data limit by 1500 GB. We would typically only go over 3 or 4 times a year at an additional $20 for the month. It was a lot less than paying for the next level up. No clue what happened this time. One of the 2 days they said we had spikes I had worked a 12 hour day so we weren't using much data, and the other was a day we were out of town, so I'm thinking it was either faulty equipment, or a neighbor or something.

When I was talking to customer service, they couldn't pin it down to anything in particular, but they said we could switch to fiber with stream tv and unlimited data for about $60 less per month. SO we had it installed yesterday. So far, so good. We have 3 separate full service Tivo boxes and our transfer speed jumped from 85 mbs down and 5 up to 200 mbs up/down.

My next challenge is that the 13" tv we have in the kitchen used to be fed from a splitter in the livingroom so we had the same show on in both rooms. The coax splitter doesn't work with HDMI and the TV is old enough not to have an HDMI port on it. I'm checking out an adapter or 2 to see what I get to work before I look for another small tv.

So far so good.

I'm confused. I've only heard of data caps for cell data, never for cable internet. And my internet provider, which is coax cable, is significantly faster than your fiber numbers

 

[HecticArt]

By the 3rd adapter you should find one that works.

If I'm lucky, yes.

I'm confused. I've only heard of data caps for cell data, never for cable internet. And my internet provider, which is coax cable, is significantly faster than your fiber numbers
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Don't be confused.
It's a different provider and a different plan.

We could have gotten a faster plan with more data, but didn't really need it. That was prolly 6 or 8 years ago that we picked that plan. It worked fine at the time. We didn't have buffering problems, and I'm not a gamer, so speed wasn't a priority.

This seems like it should get us by for a while.

 

[JHDK]

So I guess this is why I got the fire 4k max for $27. Ehh I'm happy with it, don't care to get a new version anytime soon

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[scotchandcigar]

We have a regular fire stick, and a 4K fire stick. They're both used on non-4k TVs. Our 4k TV is a smart TV, so we don't need the fire stick.