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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Comcast vs DirectTV
I am looking for pros and cons of people who have switched from Comcast to Direct Tv. I have always had Comcast (tv & internet) and I can't believe how much my bill every month. I have been happy with the service, Im just trying to find places where I can save some money.
If you do have DirectTV, what do you use for internet? And how much do you really pay a month?
If you do have DirectTV, what do you use for internet? And how much do you really pay a month?
Re: Comcast vs DirectTV
I had DirecTV for many years. I was satisfied with them for a long time but found the bills would keep rising and they don't work with you AT ALL. They take break ups really bad, too. Maybe if they didn't send their ex-customers so many advertisements they would be able to keep decent rates.
Who do you use for internet?
It's through our local phone company
When we owed our condo, we had DirecTv and AT&T for internet. We paid about $70-ish for DirecTv (1 DVR, no HD, 1 reg box) and around $45 for internet (6M/second).
We have Comcast in our rental now, our bill is around $115 and we have 1 DVR/HD box and 1 regular box and very fast internet. Worth every penny.
With DirecTv, if you don't have the HD box, you can't get the OnDemand feature through them. Not sure if that's the same with Comcast but I have missed having free OnDemand movies.
Sept will be 2 years since we switched from our local cable company Brighthouse. They were coming out almost every other week "fixing" our cable issues. We met a Directv rep at Sams club labor day weekend and signed right up. Our inital year was $55/mo - that's with 3 HD DVRs with whole home (watch same show in each room that has a DVR box) and one standard box - that was with $10/mo for 10 months since we got my inlaws to switch. Now it's $115/mo until Sept and we decide what to do then.
For internet we use AT&T DSL with no home phone. It was $19.95/mo for the first year - that's total, no extra taxes or anything. And then I had to call after the first 12 months to get the current promo which was $24.95/mo again no extra taxes. They tried to charge us the standard $44.95/mo but were helpful to credit the difference for the month I didn't catch it (auto bill pay). DSL is only 6Mbps download and around 1Mb up but isn't an issue for us at all.
I've had DirectTV for years and love them, in our old house we had DirectTV and internet w/Comcast (hate comcast). We moved and we got a bundle thru Verizon for phone/internet/DirectTv - our bill is ~ 110 for all 3 and we have HBO + HD-DVR. I've had DTV for at least 5 years in two houses and the only time my satellite went out was during a blizzard (12 inches of snow on the dish) and it was back by next day.
If you like sports DTV has great specials during tennis and golf championships (US Open etc), multiple channels to view. We also got NFL Ticket for free last year as part of our incentive package to sign up.