Hulu Live

Go to myip.ms through TMO Home Internet and check where it reports your location versus going through your phone’s data… this might demonstrate one of the core problems with TMO HI.

It is basically because of TMO's XLAT464 implementation.  Among other issues with how packets are being handled, it results in us running through a sort of funky CGNAT/VPN tunnel to centralized locations--often reporting us as being somewhere out in left field from where we actually are.  And Hulu does not trust/accept our location data because of it--largely because it monkeys with their regional content delivery arrangements.

For example, SlingTV feeds me regional content based on me being in Charlotte, NC… because that is where I "tunnel" to on TMO.  Previously on $pectrum, I was reported as actually being in Florence, SC (roughly a 2 hours drive away), so I got regional content appropriate to where I actually live.

I have tested Vidgo via a free trial and we are actually switching to them this weekend.  Their core package is going to give us all the channels we actually watch from the Sling Orange + Blue option for a little bit less, which is also less then what I was paying for Hulu Live a couple years back before they started all their price hikes.  I can also log in to things like the ESPN app to stream directly without having to use any funky grid based program guide, which was a pleasant surprise. I have fitted the attic with an antenna to feed the locals up to ~70 miles away to the whole house, so the local/regional channels really aren't an issue anymore.

Wasn't due to any particular dissatisfaction with previous services or anything… purely a move to save some cash.  Just bring it up to present options you may want to consider.  You can purchase Hulu's on demand service for $60 annually if you want to keep that option open, then use something else for the live content.  Unfortunately though, you can't use that annual option if you bundled Disney/ESPN--have to do that monthly.  ?But they do give you a discount with that bundle (or they used to at least… everyone keeps changing things up on us).