Cord Cuttin' Status Update 31Jul17

This is an update to my original post HERE. Primarily I'm updating folks on vendors, pricing and experiences. I switched to CenturyLink in Silverthorne too and internet broadband for both sites totals $65/month. Additionally we dropped some over the top services but still pay an additional $47/month for Netflix, HBO and SlingTV - these and many other streaming services are available to us now on any Roku TVs, PCs or iDevices anywhere. though we mostly use them on Blodgett and at the Nest via Roku. Plex as a DVR continues strong and has shows recorded from free terrestrial HD signals in COS on NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, PBS & CW - the recordings are available again in Summit Co and anywhere else really on our iDevices and Roku. I use Silicon Dust's HD Home Run receivers connected to a bow tie array antenna to grab the terrestrial HD signal and convert them to packet streams for Plex. We rarely use the MediaSonic receiver locally or remotely for live viewing - I mainly want live for sports and then I'm often on ESPN Go. Plex is also used to publish my .5TB music library similarly to any devices and locations. All this stuff is captured, served and backed up on an 8TB Win server in COS. I dropped cloud backup for cost and performance reasons (HDDs are much cheaper and much faster than cloud backup). Performance of CenturyLink in both locations is sufficient to stream three simultaneous HD streams just fine (or other similar total bandwidth need) on top of all the emails and IoT device reporting using the pipes too. I'm sure nothing I do is truly private anymore but we are in no danger there anyway.