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Best Prepaid Wireless Internet 2026

by Eric Chiu | Oct 8, 2025 | Best Of

Use our research to help you find the best prepaid internet deals.

How to Get Cheap Internet (Including Free & Low-Income Options)

by Rachel Oaks and Logan Jones | Oct 8, 2025 | Best Of, Featured

Your income bracket doesn’t have to limit your ability to access the internet. If your home needs a boost to cross the digital divide, take advantage of low-income internet options in your area.

What You Need to Know Now That CenturyLink Is Brightspeed

by Eric Chiu | Oct 8, 2025 | Industry News

What’s the deal with Brightspeed and CenturyLink? Read our guide to get up to speed on the relationship between both ISPs.

How To Watch Lifetime Channel 2025: Streaming, Satellite, and More

by Amy Young | Oct 8, 2025 | Entertainment

If twists and turns are your cups of TV tea—along with new holiday movies—we’re here to help you watch Lifetime all year long.

The Golden Age of Horror: The Best 80s Horror Movies and How to Stream Them

by Randy Harward | Oct 7, 2025 | Entertainment

We’ve compiled a list of classic 80s horror movies to get you started. Each recommended film has auto-updating links telling you which streaming services have them available to stream, rent, or buy. Also, since we’re confident you’ll love 80s horror movies, we’re including dozens more recommendations for further viewing.

Spectrum vs. DIRECTV

by Randy Harward | Oct 7, 2025 | Versus Reviews

Spectrum offers cable TV and internet services to select regions across the US without a contract. Its TV plan is affordable, flexible, simple, and bundles well with Spectrum’s high-speed internet service.

DIRECTV satellite TV service is available almost anywhere in the country, includes the Genie DVR at no extra cost, and is the best TV provider for sports. But DIRECTV is losing NFL SUNDAY TICKET this fall. It’s too bad, though, that DIRECTV has contracts, high prices—including a steep second-year price hike—and limited bundling options.

Optimum vs. Stream with DIRECTV

by Randy Harward | Oct 7, 2025 | Reviews, Versus Reviews

Cable apples and streaming oranges aside, Optimum is better than DIRECTV’s streaming service. It has the best channel counts, bundles, and value—especially when you consider its no-contract plans and $500 contract buyout.

Spectrum vs. Stream with DIRECTV

by Randy Harward | Oct 7, 2025 | Versus Reviews

Our TV experts’ research shows that Spectrum’s affordable, premium-jammed plans beat Stream with DIRECTV’s poor value.

Verizon Fios TV vs. Stream with DIRECTV

by Rachel Oaks | Oct 7, 2025 | Reviews, Versus Reviews

Neither Verizon Fios TV nor DIRECTV is the perfect TV service. But if you have to choose one, we say go with Verizon Fios TV. It will probably cost you just the same as DIRECTV, but it looks better and has more flexibility in choosing the channels you want.

Stream with DIRECTV vs. DIRECTV: Live Streaming or Satellite TV Service – Which Is Better For You?

by Randy Harward | Oct 6, 2025 | Reviews, Versus Reviews

DIRECTV’s streaming and satellite products both have some excellent features, but they’re both way too expensive to be worth it for most folks. Forced to choose one over the other, we’d pick DIRECTV’s streaming plans since they’re the most flexible (no contract means an easier escape) and avoid DIRECTV’s ridiculous second-year price hike.