My gripe with my single choice of wired broadband provider (Spectrum) is that the service is unreliable and somewhat overpriced. When it works, the speeds are decent enough. But I suppose it was always naive to imagine the government ever planned to do anything beyond considering (likely toothless) regulations for the shady companies that essentially have monopolies over wired broadband in their respective service markets.
I connected spectrum cable tv and internet two years ago. It works great, except that the DVRs have the slowest, least responsive interface I have seen. The promised download speed is 400Mbps, however, when I connected a laptop directly to their modem and run oakla speed test, I am getting around 270Mbps. Oh well, I don't really care.
The last time I tried actual cable TV was 7-8 years ago and I had the same issue, not really surprised it hasn't changed. The Samsung DVR and normal boxes had just the worst button latency. Press guide? Basically a 2 count before it popped up. Lag on every button press to scroll through things then another 2 or 3 count for it to tune the channel once selected. Beyond frustrating for something so simple.
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My gripe with my single choice of wired broadband provider (Spectrum) is that the service is unreliable and somewhat overpriced. When it works, the speeds are decent enough. But I suppose it was always naive to imagine the government ever planned to do anything beyond considering (likely toothless) regulations for the shady companies that essentially have monopolies over wired broadband in their respective service markets.
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I connected spectrum cable tv and internet two years ago. It works great, except that the DVRs have the slowest, least responsive interface I have seen. The promised download speed is 400Mbps, however, when I connected a laptop directly to their modem and run oakla speed test, I am getting around 270Mbps. Oh well, I don't really care.
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The last time I tried actual cable TV was 7-8 years ago and I had the same issue, not really surprised it hasn't changed. The Samsung DVR and normal boxes had just the worst button latency. Press guide? Basically a 2 count before it popped up. Lag on every button press to scroll through things then another 2 or 3 count for it to tune the channel once selected. Beyond frustrating for something so simple.
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