Recently my house’s cable and internet bill with Comcast has gotten extremely expensive, $250+. After hours of arguing with them over the phone, my housemate finally got them to cancel our subscription. Not a fun experience.
That means we need to find another option for Internet, ideally without cable TV — mostly we watch Netflix and figure the rest of the things we’d like to watch would be streaming on Hulu, Roku or another service. Does anybody out there do something similar? What would you recommend?
We were thinking of getting a digital antenna to get local channels, then buying a Roku to watch other cable channels and things like Hulu. I’d like to have the NFL, Nats games, and college basketball, but that’s not a dealbreaker.
As for internet, we were thinking of Verizon, since Comcast was driving my housemate insane and we don’t want to give them any more money. But are there other options people would recommend? I’ve heard of Clear, which is Internet over 4G, but I’m not sure how good it is. I’ve also heard of smaller cable systems like RCN, which seems to be cheaper for just Internet, but I don’t know anybody who has it, and their address check tool isn’t working. It looks like DC Access, a local company, doesn’t cover Columbia Heights.
