re: How to become cable independent?

We tried to do it but it's impossible when you...

1)Live in an area where there are only a few local stations like Biloxi.

2)You have a crappy internet provider

and

3) You are a diehard sports fan.

We would've been able to do it when we lived near Orlando because the towers were only 20 miles away and had to cover 9 counties so we got about 32 digital channels on antenna and had AT&T internet which partnered with ESPN3 via XBox. But when we moved to Keesler AFB two years ago, we only get 8 digital channels with 3 networks (soon to be 5 networks come July with CBS and NBC coming). We had to stay with Directv and Cable One who is not a partner with ESPN3 was our only choice for internet since AT&T didn't build infrastructure in all of base housing for DSL or U-Verse.