Ok, boys and girls. My "Smart TV' is on its last leg and I've been thinking for some time that instead of getting a new one, I would like to just scrap the tv and do any tv watching on my laptop. I'm the only one in this house and I don't entertain, so why do I need a tv? My laptop is wide and big enough to run any tv programming (including local news).
Right now I have Comcast (Xfinity) for tv and Wi-Fi. I would like to ditch the tv service and just have Wi-Fi, but I don't believe Comcast (Xfinity) will allow it. They are already unhappy because I discontinued the phone service a few years ago. With these guys, everything is a "bundle." Those packages make the cable companies a lot of money.
So now my question: Has anyone had experience with a standalone Wi-Fi and if so, what companies are best? In my neck of the woods, Comcast (Xfinnity), Verizon, Viasat, Hughesnet and Toast are listed as the only providers. Toast is DSL, so no to that one. Hughes and ViaSat are satellite providers, Verizon is fibre and Comcast is cable. I hate Comcast. Verizon is overly aggressive in their sales approach, plus they probably are scammers like Xfinity where you sign up for some low introductory price, but after the intro price expires, the regular price just goes up and up. So that leaves ViaSat and Hughes.
Anyone have any experience with ViaSat or Hughes? Neither has the speeds of Comcast or Verizon, but I'm not so sure I need all that. Presumably both will work for streaming on one device, uploading and playing entertainment and some gaming. I'm not much of a gamer except for solitaire and I can get by with one device at a time. I would like to have reliable streaming without the annoying buffering.
Any help you guys can give me would be appreciated.