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Originally Posted by LouG@619
Will be buying a house soon. Looking for opinions on internet service and television. Thanks in advance.
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I got Comcast very high speed service (100-200 Mbps—much faster than the basic speed). I don’t have Cable TV. I picked up my router at the Xfinity store, then discovered that the cable was disconnected at the outside junction box, where there was a nest of wires from the “old days” of twenty years ago, before WiFi, so I requested an installation guy online. Because I did it online, Xfinity waived the $70 service call fee for some reason. I save $15 a month, I think, by having the fee taken from my Visa card automatically. I only use Netflix and Amazon Prime, and all my TVs are LG Smart TVs that came with the wonderful Magic Remote, which slides a cursor around like a mouse with a wave of the hand, so I didn’t need anything else. I don’t have any other remotes. All three TVs are connected to the router by WiFi—no wires!
But my girlfriend is coming to visit, and she wants access to horrible network news. So I bought one of these digital antennas:
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Cheap! I attached it to the East-facing guest room window and got 48 clear stations, including ABC, NBC, and Fox (no CBS). She’ll be happy. But then I got another antenna and mounted it in the living room for that TV. No channels! Then I bought a coax cable splitter and split the signal from the guest room window and ran a coaxial cable to the living room. Still no signal.
Most of the signals seem to be coming from the East coast of Florida, 58 miles away as the signal flies.