I say it time and time again, one of reasons why I will not cut the Dish Cord is the Internet that I have. We have Frontier and while it is not to bad with the MBPS, there will be moments that my family will complain that the Internet is down again. Sometimes, 3 to 4 times a day, sometimes more. My wife and I have talked about it, but we have had Dish since 2001. We did switch to Directv in 2004 or 2005, but once we had our local channels available on Dish, we came back to Dish. We have never had anyone from Dish ever being rude, if either my wife or I have called them with questions.
Sounds like you wanted to cancel before you picked up the phone and called them about the signal issues.
If $95 is the difference between retaining Dish or not, then you definitely should cancel. Sat TV is not a necessity and it sounds like you have bigger problems.
I've tried several linear OTT services in the last 6 months, came to the conclusion none of them fill the bill for me, multiple reasons:
1) All the "DVR" solutions just suck compared to the Hopper3, DVR functionality might be attected by my slow DSL
2) My 10mb DSL just isn't made for OTT
3) The program grid function is not "optimal.
4) None of the have enough sports programming, Dish was mainly used for sport. This appears to be slowly changing.
5) Limits on number of simultaneous streams
Services trialed: Hulu w/Live TV, Sling, DTV Now, Playstation Vue and YouTubeTV
Sling w/Orange and Blue came the closest to meeting my desires having ESPN/FS1/FS2
With more sports having their own streaming services I can make do with MLB.TV/NHL.TV and Aussie Rules from Australia though sometimes my slow DSL is still an issue.
You answered your Question here. You need a faster internet connection? Viasat, Hughes Net or something like them to fast stream .
Better then the 10 mb DSL? Cable is best if you can get it in your location.Viasat or Hughesnet for streaming? You're kidding, right?
Hulu, Sling, PS Vue, and Youtube TV all offer ESPN/FS1/FS2.Services trialed: Hulu w/Live TV, Sling, DTV Now, Playstation Vue and YouTubeTV
Sling w/Orange and Blue came the closest to meeting my desires having ESPN/FS1/FS2
With more sports having their own streaming services I can make do with MLB.TV/NHL.TV and Aussie Rules from Australia though sometimes my slow DSL is still an issue.
Better then the 10 mb DSL? Cable is best if you can get it in your location.
There's no way limited, high latency and over sold Hughesnet or Viasat is better than unlimited 10 meg DSL.
I happen to have all three of those services here including 10 meg DSL and the DSL wins hands down every time. Sure Hughesnet and Viasat are a little faster on the speed tests but there's no comparison in actual throughput. And after you stream a few shows and hit your limit on the satellite internet services they slow you down to a crawl.
I do not watch streams during the work day. Early Morning or late evening viewing/streaming I work during the day.
Viasat works for me and I do not have problems at those times.Huh? What's that got to do with the topic?
And just FYI I work during the day too. My work just so happens to involve Hughesnet and Viasat and watching TV.
Viasat works for me and I do not have problems at those times.
I know I need faster Internet BUT as JSheridan said satellite internet ain't the answer, stupid caps and the latency will kill lots of applications, as a network engineer I can tell you it isn't always the size of the pipe, sometimes it's the latency, talk to my customers in Thule Greenland and Diego Garcia BIOT about latency issues. I live on the eastern plains of Colorado, DSL or in some places LTE are the only available solutions. I knew this when I moved here so I don't complain too much about the lack of availability of faster internet.You answered your Question here. You need a faster internet connection? Viasat, Hughes Net or something like them to fast stream .
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