Starlink supposedly will be available in 2020

timmac wrote:

WVcampground wrote:



I wonder how most cable providers provide both television and internet and get away charging for both?

Perhaps you should look into those businesses and how they interact. Want the short answer? Because you won't be streaming most providers /channels unless you pay someone. Start adding up all the subscription costs. Netflix / Prime / _______ /_______ etc. Those fees are not going away no matter how it gets to you.

Now its different if you want to watch nothing but internet baloney, Youtube, and in your case the Fantasy channel.

The reason cable companies are still providing both is many over 40 years of age have not gone full streaming and many don't understand how it works, I have 2 brothers that are still stuck in the cable world even though they have internet at there house.

You don't need cable to get 95 percent of the programs on streaming anymore, that to is going away, you need to check out Roku box and learn something.

Cable/satellite TV service has few folks signed up under 30 years of age, streaming growing by the thousands daily.

As to cost for streaming it is far cheaper if you know how it works and don't add extra channels that you don't need, many are free.

My total household and RV streaming is around $400 a year for thousands of programs, movies, sports, news, etc, 10 times the content than cable/satellite and many programs are commercial free.

My monthly internet is not included in the above cost because I need internet for my business so I might as well go ahead and stream down all my TV programs/movies for cheap while I have internet anyways.

The younger generation including my 2 daughters in there mid 20's already sees the savings and better content for cheap since they all have internet and don't see why the slow older generation is paying $100 a month for a few junk channels loaded with commercials..

:C

How do I watch TV when out camping where there's no 4G?
Not everyone lives like you do. Last thing I want to do is be tied to 4G when out camping. Come out west young man and you'll see that your fantasy is greatly compromised.

I use streaming and sat. at my stick house. I pay for Netflix, Prime and Crave + internet. There are a lot of other things I could stream but I need my sat. account to login. Streaming doesn't come close to eliminating my need for sat.

joebedford wrote:
timac DID say that the $400 does NOT include internet access.

Yes he did, my bad.

It's really of no concern. I'm :h why I even jumped into this miscellaneous foolishness and pile of Bovine dung. Especially so after going back and reading some of his other zingers on the subject. :S :B

But he doesn't bother to mention things like data caps and lack of cellular coverage. It's an entirely different ball game out here. If this was a home internet forum I would likely agree with some of his concepts (other than sat TV going away). But it's not and I can't.

timac DID say that the $400 does NOT include internet access.

TIMMAC MAKES A GREAT POINT IN HIS LAST POST. HE IS NOT DOING ANY OF THIS IN AN RV!!!!!!
His fantasy becomes even more obvious when you understand he's in a house posting BS on an RV forum.

timmac wrote:

WVcampground wrote:



I wonder how most cable providers provide both television and internet and get away charging for both?

Perhaps you should look into those businesses and how they interact. Want the short answer? Because you won't be streaming most providers /channels unless you pay someone. Start adding up all the subscription costs. Netflix / Prime / _______ /_______ etc. Those fees are not going away no matter how it gets to you.

Now its different if you want to watch nothing but internet baloney, Youtube, and in your case the Fantasy channel.

The reason cable companies are still providing both is many over 40 years of age have not gone full streaming and many don't understand how it works, I have 2 brothers that are still stuck in the cable world even though they have internet at there house.

You don't need cable to get 95 percent of the programs on streaming anymore, that to is going away, you need to check out Roku box and learn something.

Cable/satellite TV service has few folks signed up under 30 years of age, streaming growing by the thousands daily.

As to cost for streaming it is far cheaper if you know how it works and don't add extra channels that you don't need, many are free.

My total household and RV streaming is around $400 a year for thousands of programs, movies, sports, news, etc, 10 times the content than cable/satellite and many programs are commercial free.

My monthly internet is not included in the above cost because I need internet for my business so I might as well go ahead and stream down all my TV programs/movies for cheap while I have internet anyways.

The younger generation including my 2 daughters in there mid 20's already sees the savings and better content for cheap since they all have internet and don't see why the slow older generation is paying $100 a month for a few junk channels loaded with commercials..

:C

It might be all new to you but I have had Roku for about 10 years, and every part of the country is not exactly like your neighborhood in terms of what is or will be available for internet access. BTW you need that access to stream anything. Its great Starlink will provide that service to the entire surface of the Earth. What remains to be seen is what that access is going to cost the typical subscriber and what bandwidth limits will be imposed, because their will be limits. It matters not how you're getting the content, you're still paying for it.

I would like to know where you're getting your high speed bandwidth to stream as much as you claim? $400 a year? You're getting that bandwidth for $33.33 per month? What a load of BS.

Thank you for educating us all how this stuff all works. :S

WVcampground wrote:



I wonder how most cable providers provide both television and internet and get away charging for both?

Perhaps you should look into those businesses and how they interact. Want the short answer? Because you won't be streaming most providers /channels unless you pay someone. Start adding up all the subscription costs. Netflix / Prime / _______ /_______ etc. Those fees are not going away no matter how it gets to you.

Now its different if you want to watch nothing but internet baloney, Youtube, and in your case the Fantasy channel.

The reason cable companies are still providing both is many over 40 years of age have not gone full streaming and many don't understand how it works, I have 2 brothers that are still stuck in the cable world even though they have internet at there house.

You don't need cable to get 95 percent of the programs on streaming anymore, that to is going away, you need to check out Roku box and learn something.

Cable/satellite TV service has few folks signed up under 30 years of age, streaming growing by the thousands daily.

As to cost for streaming it is far cheaper if you know how it works and don't add extra channels that you don't need, many are free.

My total household and RV streaming is around $400 a year for thousands of programs, movies, sports, news, etc, 10 times the content than cable/satellite and many programs are commercial free.

My monthly internet is not included in the above cost because I need internet for my business so I might as well go ahead and stream down all my TV programs/movies for cheap while I have internet anyways.

The younger generation including my 2 daughters in there mid 20's already sees the savings and better content for cheap since they all have internet and don't see why the slow older generation is paying $100 a month for a few junk channels loaded with commercials..

:C

Timac's World has nothing at all to do with reality. Let him lives his fantasy. Just understand that it is a fantasy.

timmac wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:


Musk is a modern day PT Barnum and lots of folks follow everything he says without question..

Elon is putting rockets in space for about half what NASA does and the rockets return back to earth to be reused..

Elon is also not the only company putting multiple satellites in space to beam down internet, everyone needs internet and since you pay for internet that everyone needs nowadays might as well stream all your programs and movies while you have internet.

No need to pay a $100 a month for junk channels on cable/satellite TV service since you are paying for internet..

17 months and 8 days...

I wonder how most cable providers provide both television and internet and get away charging for both?

Perhaps you should look into those businesses and how they interact. Want the short answer? Because you won't be streaming most providers /channels unless you pay someone. Start adding up all the subscription costs. Netflix / Prime / _______ /_______ etc. Those fees are not going away no matter how it gets to you.

Now its different if you want to watch nothing but internet baloney, Youtube, and in your case the Fantasy channel.