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I am looking to reduce costs an streamline in a few areas.?
Question : I am looking to reduce costs an streamline in a few areas.?
I currently useCable for my High Speed Internet, and Direct TV for my Satellite TV. And am thinking of using VOIP, Cable cor my phone service. Here are my questions:
1. How does Cable compare to Satellite TV with High Definition? Better? Worse?
2. Has anyone used VOIP, Telephone service over a cable connection? Comcast? Vonage? Any others? Does it work as well as a regular phone service like ATT?
3. Is DSL Broadband as good as cable? A fast? Both would have the same 6 MBPS.
Any thoughts on any or all would be appreciated… Thanks….
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Best answer:
Answer by Joshhhh
Dont do it, stick with dial up. NOT!
Cable beats satellite in many ways, and some ways satellite is better.
Contracts: Winner: Cable.
Cable typically does not do contracts, yet satellite will easily lock you in for a year or two. So if you don’t like your service, you’re hosed.
Equipment: Winner: Cable
Though you may get equipment deals with satellite service, you still have to pay them for the service (dvr, hd). With cable, you never own the box so if it breaks, they come out and fix it. If a better style comes out, you can replace it. Versus satellite, where you may have to shell out quite a bit for the latest box.
Picture quality: Winner in many cases is cable:
If cabke in your area has a digital simulcast (i believe most comcast systems do) then it’s the best of both worlds. you’ll have all digital picture on all channels coming through your cable boxes and still have analog service where you can plug in cable into a regular tv and still get 70 channels.
With satellite, you have to have a box on every tv and pay per month for the privelige.
Price: Satellite if you have ONE television. When you start hooking up multiple tv’s, and adding dvrs and hd boxes, satellite quickly get as expensive or more. In my situation, I have three tv’s… One tv with an hd dvr, one regular hd box, and standard cable (70 channels – no box) on a third. with satellite, I’d pay considerably more for similar service – both upfront and per month.
VoIP works as good as your cable connection. It doesn’t take up too much bandwith, so most people don’t notice when the service is in use. VoIP is cheap, but you get what you pay for. sometimes you pick up the phone and it doesn’t work or your conversations break up. it’s like a cell phone – sometimes you drop calls, sometimes it goes straight to voice mail or you break up. My voip works relatively well, but im on a 15meg verizon fios fiber optic connection. still, it’s not perfect. jitter and qos are the real killers for voip. check myspeed.visualware.com and do their voip test to check your connection.
if you want your phone to work every time you pick it up (including power outages!) stick with copper pots service. cable voip is much better and has a battery backup for power outages, but the battery will die after several hours.
dsl is as good as cable, depending on the speed you can get from your dsl provider. dsl speed varies by your distance and the quality of lines from the central office or rt from your home. dsl speeeds are much more consistent to the internet, as cable can fluctuate during busy times of the day.
for 95% of people the dsl offering works just fine and is usually less expensive than calbe.
I would take dsl at 6meg over cable at 6meg for the consistency. However, comcast has uses a technology called power boost that temporarily uncaps your modem to take advantage of extra available bandwith in your node if you’re doing large downloads. you can get up to 12meg for the first few minutes of a large download – and they’re getting ready to do an upstream boost with up to 1meg of upstream power.