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pnichols
Mar 19, 2019Explorer II
Well ... all this "death of satellite TV discussion" ASSUMES that users are living around cities/towns with high speed wired Internet access for HD and/or 4K streaming. Not all of us are in that boat.
For us rural type folks with only 7-9 Mbps download speeds fed from a private wide area wireless network - we'll be keeping DISH satellite service in order to reliably receive specific news, educational, and documentary channels - some of which aren't available via the Internet.
We can only stream about 2 HD channels (renter plus us) at once on our 7-9 Mbps connection using a modern dual band ac router. We subscribe to Amazon Prime, Netflix, Acorn, and Britbox in order to be assured of decent material to stream at all times. DISH is our only source of data speeds high enough for any (rare) 4K streaming.
Being rurally located we like backup redundancy, so having both a satellite DISH feed and a wireless Internet feed available provides this. We have for years had one or the other occasionally go down.
For us rural type folks with only 7-9 Mbps download speeds fed from a private wide area wireless network - we'll be keeping DISH satellite service in order to reliably receive specific news, educational, and documentary channels - some of which aren't available via the Internet.
We can only stream about 2 HD channels (renter plus us) at once on our 7-9 Mbps connection using a modern dual band ac router. We subscribe to Amazon Prime, Netflix, Acorn, and Britbox in order to be assured of decent material to stream at all times. DISH is our only source of data speeds high enough for any (rare) 4K streaming.
Being rurally located we like backup redundancy, so having both a satellite DISH feed and a wireless Internet feed available provides this. We have for years had one or the other occasionally go down.
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