Originally Posted By: Barkleymut
I currently pay Verizon $167/month for Cable, Net, and home phone. The wife has finally agreed to sever ties with the home phone. I tried to work with Verizon and get my bill reduced, no dice. I told them to cut it off and they asked when. So I am looking around at Dish, Directv, and Comcast. My question is does anyone have net service through Dish or Direct? If so is 20 GB of data a lot? I have zero idea how much my family uses now.... Also is the connection speed decent? I don't need anything like I have now (Fios) but I don't want to wait half an hour for a youtube video.
Depends on what you do. I put a program that meters the data going through my laptop. I'd go over 5GB on my one computer, and I don't exactly sit here streaming Netflix on it or downloading giant files. My wife downloads a few movies every month from the digital copies that come with the disc, or iTunes. They are 2-3 GB a piece. Then there is streaming Netflix/Amazon on our TVs. Anyway, I'd guess we get pretty close to 20GB, if not more, and it is just the two of us.
I can't speak about other services though. I've had Fios for 5 years now. It is probably more expensive than other choices, but it works 99.9% of the time and is fast. Coming from Time Warner in NY, and then Cox living elsewhere in Virginia, I'm happy to have called Verizon customer service all of once in the time I've had them. Too many nightmare stories about Comcast for me to ever consider them.