So we're exploring television/Internet service options for our new house, which we need in place by the time we move in on Nov. 10.
Currently, we have AT&T's new service, U-verse, which is IPTV, kind of like Verizon's FIOS. Believe it or not, podunk Olathe, KS is one of their test markets. We've had it now for 6 months and are pretty impressed. As with any new technology, there are bugs, and the DVR has never worked right (in fact, it's utter crap - drops scheduled shows at random, constantly reboots in the middle of recording, can't tell the different between first-runs and re-runs), but overall we're pretty happy with it, especially for the price we pay ($85 for 200 channels, 6mbps Internet, 4 receivers (one HD), and the DVR). Boo-hoo, U-verse isn't available yet in the neighborhood we're moving to, of course. So we have to get Comcrap - uh, I mean Comcast - or a dish. I've never had Comcast (Kansas City is split between Comcast and Time Warner - loved Time Warner when we had it), but pricing them out it appears they are EXPENSIVE. $160 just for cable/Internet installation and they don't give us the option to do a self-install for our wireless network (which burns my hubby to no end - 10 years setting up networks and building computers and they don't trust him not to screw it up). About $130/month for the service. We've looked at DISH network and DirecTV (w/ DSL for internet); installation is cheaper, monthly service is comparable. But we don't know enough about dish service and its pitfalls to make an informed decision to go for it. Frankly, I'm just really confused and don't know what to pick. I guess we really don't like any of our options and are ready to just settle for the lesser of all evils. Who here has dish service and can recommend it? What service do you have with what options and what's been your experience? Same for Comcast - what do you have and how's it been? Are there any other alternatives out there to cable/dish we should think about? We need beefy Internet, wireless networking, at least three receivers, one of which has to be a good, reliable DVR - ideally we'd love a whole-home DVR. HD isn't really necessary but will be in the future. We're also thinking we'd like a whole-home media server, accessed wirelessly, so we can store our movies/music and watch/listen from anywhere in the home. Don't know if that's a completely separate concern from the cable/internet service, but it would be ideal if it were all integrated. Thanks guys! Shawna Hampton r(E)-Visions Consulting www.revisionsconsulting.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:244995 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
