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Originally Posted by Malsua
As others have said, it depends on your village.
Xfinity has a starter package, first year $20/month. 25mbit. Yes, this is enough bandwidth for multiple streams. Yes, I know what I'm talking about, I do this kind of thing for a living.
Century link is another provider but their speeds vary depending on distance to the head-end and your village. Century link in my village only offers 2mbit. This is enough for email, that's about it. In other villages it's 100mbits or more even. Check first because they are typically the most affordable option. If they have a 20mbit or better plan on the cheap, get it.
I have no personal experience with Spectrum, but they are a large provider, so as long as their plan is over 20mbit and is reasonable, go for it.
We stream Hulu on the Hulu plan "Hulu + live tv". Some people use youtube TV. Both are great. Hacked firesticks and other hinky pirate connections for $10/month should be avoided.
Good luck, welcome.
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The problem with xfinity is that their upload speed is crap. I won't argue your 25Mbps is [barely] enough for streaming (I prefer more for file download reasons), their upload speed might be 1Mbps. Yes, a measly "1". And, that's megaBITS. So, I need about 10 seconds to upload just 1MB (megaBYTE). That a very sluggish 6MB / minute.
Before you just dismiss that as "who needs upload speeds?", let's remind the reader that you need upload speed for things like dropbox, video uploads and cloud backups. If you want to backup a 100GB computer to Carbonite for example (which is not an unreasonable amount today), that would take 277 hours or a little over 11.5 days with xfinity.
You don't see those numbers in the advertisements for internet service. When shopping for internet, ask everyone of them what UPLOAD speed to expect. They all tout their download speeds but most don't like to talk about upload speeds which are critical today.
And, I too know what I'm taking about as I also do this kind of thing for a living.