Hey guys! I've been lurking this forum for years, but finally registered to get some info. Gary, I actually IM'd you about this yesterday, but thought maybe that is bad form for a new member?
Anyhow currently I'm on ATT for DSL and phone, DirectTV for TV, ADT over telco for security monitoring in Indianapolis.
We just had our first baby WAY early (3.5 months early, 1 lb 1oz.. check out »
andrewanderin.com for cuteness). She's finally home and thriving but we are obviously in cost control mode and trying to figure out some ways to save money and simplify.
I work from home most days of the week so internet speed is important, and I'm used to fairly good device quality from DirecTV (UI interface, app streaming capabilities, etc). However AT&T is the worst to deal with, the speed available to me is not good, and we only use the phone phone for security monitoring. ADT keeps bumping our rate which is now 52 a month.
Gary's responsiveness on this forum is my main reason for thinking of switching to BHN for the above services as my options are few here, and I didn't have a great experience with a BH for a cable modem some 8 years back (the tech was not so useful, looked like hell, local office customer support was not so great).
We currently pay for one of the upper packages on Direct TV with too many movie packages (mostly trials that we now pay for... we'll keep HBO though).
House breakdown is as follows: HD in living room, where the whole home DVR is, HD tv in one bedroom, and HD would be nice to have upstairs to plug into computer monitor's HDMI at the treadmill/walking desk, but not necessary if a PC or mac streaming client exists for BHN. Everything is run from the closet in the nursery, I've run RG6 and cat6 to most rooms, though the cable run for upstairs is on the wrong wall so I'd have to do something myself I suppose.
I'm hoping you might have some advice on best deals/bundles available, how to go about signing up for best value/lowest installation costs, etc.
We'd be interested in killing off ADT if I could get monitoring and keep our homeowner's discount, but I'm not sure what kind of up front costs I'm looking at for the BHN security system (I'm guessing it would be a new system).
We honestly don't NEED a home phone as we never answer it, but if it made sense to keep with a bundle we would.
Thanks guys!