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I don't miss cable tv

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I'm an America who lives in the UK and I have yet to use any sort of cable/sat provider since moving here. Setup: Acer Aspire Revo - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225756 £300 + Loaded with Boxee + Proxied to an old laptop at my parents house in the US Services I use: 1. NFL overseas Gamepass package (~$250 for whole season) - every game in full HD (yes literally just as good as watching it on cable HDTV...NO JOKE) 2.…

May I ask what ISP and speed your parents have? I'm also abroad and while I could set a proxy up their house I'm worried that it would use up all the upload bandwidth. They are on DSL 800kbit/7Mbit up/down

They're in a suburban area on comcast cable. I think they consistently get like 8Mbit down (not sure of up).

Seeing as I am 6hrs ahead of them I'm not really concerned about bandwidth stealing of theirs ;)

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