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Originally Posted by fred cook
The only real tricks to using a streaming service is to make certain you have enough download speed and that your wifi is good everywhere you want to put a tv. The Fire TVs are really easy to set up!
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It's more than download speed. We mostly depend on internet for emergency event information from the local TV stations, but if the event is a power outage in our area, Frontier's server (or whatever device it is that provides DSL service to us) goes down. I don't know where this "box" is located, but it is very local to us, because it goes down whenever there is an outage in our local area. I was not aware of this and got a UPS for our router so we could still have internet access in a power outage. Nope.
We have apps on our phones for local news broadcasts for tornado or thunderstorm warnings, so it isn't a game changer.