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Leon[_7_]

On 1/7/2017 10:17 AM, wrote:
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Are you really saving when you spend over $100 to join prime?
In my case I don't watch much TV, so I wouldn't benefit by the TV shows.

Most TV shows are available online, anyway. Our DVR often screws up
so we just go to the network's on demand site and watch. The only
down side is that fast-forward doesn't work.

I prefer to spend it in the shop. I guess my wife would watch, but my
high speed is limited to 6mb as I live out in the boonies.

We just got AT&T Uverse this year. Before that we had AT&T DSL
(*maybe* 6Mb but usually no more than 3Mb), so I feel your pain. BTW,
Uverse is far from perfect. It just stops for a few seconds, fairly
often. TV stuff is buffered enough that it isn't affected much but
streaming on the computer or audio has real problems.

There may be a fix. ;~)
When we moved into the home we had build 6 years ago we switched to
Uverse TV, phone and internet.
Service was so unreliable that many on our block dropped Uverse when it
went out for the 3rd time for 4 straight days. We dropped the TV and
eventually the phone. The Uverse DVR does not work like most DVR's,
when the service goes down you loose use of recordings in addition to
the internet and phone.

Anyway I had a problem with our internet service through Uverse and the
repair guy come out to fix their problem. I mentioned that the TV often
stopped and he said it was the box on the outside of out house that was
the problem but they would not repair that. The box was only 5 years
old at the time. He did say that I could have the box replaced for free
if I simply upgraded my internet speed to above 24 gig IIRC. The faster
speeds required the latest versions of the "box". He indicated that I
could upgrade the speed for a month and change back to my previous
speed. He stressed that your contract dies not dictate the speed only
that you continue service. I was out of contract anyway but it was good
to know.
I did upgrade my speed to what they now call Fiber at 300 gig and the
box was replaced at no extra charge. Very fast and no more TV stopping
for a few seconds.
Unfortunately for us the internet being 20 times faster than our
previous speed is pretty much wasted unless checking my internet speed
on a speed test. If we download a TV show through DirecTV it takes a
long time still. You still have to wait a little while so that it
does not buffer. An On Demand movie might be faster.

Down loading large software updates or programs happens in a snap
however. And for a whole my up load was 300gig also they have throttled
that back to about 75. I don't see the difference between 300 and 75.
It is like trying to distinguish the difference between 1 second and a
quarter second.

Any way........ If you can get the newer box your hesitation may stop.

I have noticed that with my son's Prime there are a lot of items that
are ineligible to add to your cart on prime.. meaning you have to add
more items before they will ship that on prime.. I would have to look
back on my purchases to around april last year, but I had to pad an
order for them to ship cerain things even through prime. Even though I
had spent enough, those items did not add to the total b4 shipping. WTF!!!

I do think the 2 day is nice, he ordered a bunch of stuff for Christmas
and had it shipped here. Often it came before 8:30 in the morn.
Sometimes b4 8.