Friday, January 15, 2010
Cable Construction Crew
Since we're moving to our new house this weekend, I signed up for Internet/phone/TV with Time Warner a few weeks ago. Well, the installer went to the house this morning and after about 30 minutes, discovered that our house is not connected to their network. Interestingly, the existing cable wiring is through Cox Communications and it was installed only 2 months ago. Anyway, now we have to wait for a construction crew to run a cable under our front lawn before we are connected. I checked Cox's service and you get less for more money compared to Time Warner. I really wanted Verizon FIOS but that's not available in our area. :(
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You should get AT&T Uverse instead -- I wish it were available on our street.
The Uverse website says it's available on my street. I checked prices for similar service and it's more expensive than Time Warner. What's so good about it?
With Uverse, you can record up to 4 channels at a time (which actually would come in handy at our house since sometimes Kim will record 2 channels at once (max with Time Warner), causing me to have to switch to another TV to watch what I want. Also, Uverse has at least a few channels I like that TW doesn't (HDNet, HD Movies, NFL Network). Also, you can have just a single DVR in one room and be able to watch recorded shows from it in another part of the house (boxes are linked). That way, Kim and I could use the DVR at the same time. The Time Warner guy told me the picture might not be as good since it's coming through the phone lines, but I don't know if that's true. Also, for broadband, you'd either have to settle for DSL through AT&T or get Road Runner through TW. If you don't need those features, then maybe TW would be a better value for you.
Oh, my coworker was telling me about the 4 channel PVR. I don't watch that much TV and I didn't even order the PVR/DVR with TW. I was going to buy a DVD recorder w/tuner and burn DVDs when I want to save a program. I think we'll stick with TW and see how extensive the install will be. I think my priority is the high-speed connection and DSL is not as fast as CM.
Yeah, the one drawback with going with Uverse is having to settle for DSL if you want to bundle services. Doesn't "bundle" sound funny? Bundle bundle bundle bundle bundle
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