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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)We're on CenturyLink and previously had their PrismTV. With PrismTV although you are getting 30 mbs 20 of that is dedicated to Prism even if your Prism devices are turned off. With 10 mbs we had streaming problems especially if both my husband and I were streaming different TVs and on our computers at the same time.
Last year I responded to an offer from Century to op our bandwidth to 40 mbs. My intention was to drop Prism and just stream. The representative talked me into keeping a lower number of channels with Prism but did not tell me about the bandwidth reserved for Prism. In addition with Prism you cannot get the 40 mbs at all.
Finally after months of hassle I dropped Prism (which they tried to charge me for "breaking" the contract they never told me about) and now have 40 mbs. The only channel we have any problem with is Sling and I think that is more that they are trying to live stream and have to "switch" every hour to allow their encoders to catch up. Sometimes it freezes at the hour, sometimes it speeds up, and occasionally it kicks us out to the main Roku menu.
We are using WIFI through the CenturyLink provided modem though I have thought about buying my own. They have not upgraded the modem in many years.