Bryan’s Ruminations

Where I think hard, try to be fair, and sometimes get carried away.
Home Blog Books Podcasts Uses About Contact
Home Blog Books Podcasts Uses About Contact
Home Blog Archives 2017

Posts from 2017

We Cut The Cord!

Posted on Friday, 13 January 2017

cord-cuttingToday I called our internet, cable, and landline phone provider, Frontier, to “cut the cord.” By now, most everyone has a general idea of what it means to cut the cord, though the specifics often vary from person to person. To us it meant getting rid of cable and our landline phone service. Over the next few weeks, I plan on writing a series of posts on our cord-cutting experience.

Continue reading We Cut The Cord!...

DIRECTV NOW Update

Posted on Saturday, 07 January 2017

A quick update on our DIRECTV NOW experience…

We're doing our best to avoid using our cable boxes and use DTVN for any live TV, with okay results. The main issue we're running into is the same that everyone else using DTVN is running into—buffering and needing to reset the app. It's a pain. However, it also led me to hook up our HD antenna so that I could distribute it throughout the house, which has been a success. We no longer rely on DTVN or cable for anything local.

I’ll write more on us testing the cord-cutting waters when I get a bit more time.

2016 2018
Archives
2026 2 2025 3 2024 1 2020 2 2019 3 2018 2 2017 2 2016 5 2014 2 2011 4 2010 22 2009 27 2008 124 2007 23 2006 15 2005 22 2004 32 2003 97 2002 92 2001 68 2000 34
© 2026 - Bryan Daneman - RSS
Home About Uses
Archives Books Podcasts Contact
Bluesky Mastodon LinkedIn Github Strava