01-26-2009, 01:36 AM
I've had it for a month now. I had them hook up 4 TVs - one of which is an HDTV. They used a combination of phone line copper wire and [leftover from Comcast] coax for the install. Only one guy came out and my impression of him now is that he was not very experienced.
One of my TVs [on the second floor of my home] did not/does not have a good connection. It freezes up and gets very pixelated often. It is connected via coax that Comcast ran in from the outside; it is the farthest from the RG which is in the basement. I called for service and another [better] installer came out and that bad connection is now better but still not as good as the other TVs. The problem is that that TV is in the master bedroom where my husband likes to watch football, etc. at night from the bed. I will call again and see if I can't get a wireless connection for that TV or else have them put in a new line. [ My admittedly unknowledgeable opinion is that the line is bad.]
Other than that it's been great. I especially like that it is cheaper than Comcast. We went w/ phone and internet and TV and it costs about $130/mo where I had been paying $140/mo for Comcast internet and TV. Channels are about the same. I upped the DSL service to whatever the 3 level is and that's more than enough to get Netflix on demand streams.
My download speeds w/ Comcast ran anywhere from 4091 to 13980 Kbps and now I'm steady at 5700. The UL is a little slow at 900 but I don't upload all that often.
Let me know if you have any specific questions. The phone service has been very helpful and I give the whole experience a 6 out of 10. The whole house DVR rocks as does the 4 channel recording. For the TVs that work, I give it a 10.
One of my TVs [on the second floor of my home] did not/does not have a good connection. It freezes up and gets very pixelated often. It is connected via coax that Comcast ran in from the outside; it is the farthest from the RG which is in the basement. I called for service and another [better] installer came out and that bad connection is now better but still not as good as the other TVs. The problem is that that TV is in the master bedroom where my husband likes to watch football, etc. at night from the bed. I will call again and see if I can't get a wireless connection for that TV or else have them put in a new line. [ My admittedly unknowledgeable opinion is that the line is bad.]
Other than that it's been great. I especially like that it is cheaper than Comcast. We went w/ phone and internet and TV and it costs about $130/mo where I had been paying $140/mo for Comcast internet and TV. Channels are about the same. I upped the DSL service to whatever the 3 level is and that's more than enough to get Netflix on demand streams.
My download speeds w/ Comcast ran anywhere from 4091 to 13980 Kbps and now I'm steady at 5700. The UL is a little slow at 900 but I don't upload all that often.
Let me know if you have any specific questions. The phone service has been very helpful and I give the whole experience a 6 out of 10. The whole house DVR rocks as does the 4 channel recording. For the TVs that work, I give it a 10.