Cutting the cable, looking for some advice.

[Mecca]

Here's my advice as someone who has been out from cable for roughly 7 years.

Number 1, find out if your ISP has a data cap, if it does and you are going to stream and especially game/download things you are going to have to pay to be uncapped, this made my internet bill go from 80 which I found reasonable for the 285 down I get to 130 which I think is a bit high but unfortunately I'm stuck with that.

You're likely going to have 2 options, mine are AT&T and Comcast..both have data caps, I've had both Comcast speeds are much better for what I need. Just make sure you go with what you need to have. If you have teens gaming and you go with a package that is like 40 down you are going to get some extreme lag. Other good ISP advice, if it is a company like the ones I mentioned, a lot of times they'll offer you to add super basic cable for almost nothing. I believe they offered it to me for 5 bucks, so know your options.

Now for the sign up services that you are going to need to have...
Netflix obviously
The hulu/disney/espn + bundle is about as good of a deal as you'll find in streaming.
Amazon prime is worth it if you are going to use it to shop also.

But in reality you can sidestep all of these if you know how to use KODI, that is something every single cord cutter should have. I won't explain it since there is a thread on it in the MC and it's easy to look up on google.

Another thing that I've done that is going to be an option for younger people if you're parents or a family member etc are swell...I know my parents cable login and pass..which means I can sign up for the streaming service for all of the channels they get. This means I can watch fox,nbc,abc, fox sports, espn etc etc this has been extremely helpful over the years.

With all of this my budget for all this stuff is still is like 180 dollars, unfortunately until my teenage kids go off to college and take their net usage with them I'm stuck paying to be uncapped as I go over that limit constantly. Also I could get away not paying for any stream service using things like torrents and flash drives or my home network but once again the kids are far to lazy to understand how to use it.

I learned having kids makes cord cutting more expensive if its just say you or you and a wife it's far easier.