Liz,

First, it’s my favorite city too! Glad we both agree!
Second, you should know that there’s not a lot of good options for customers like you. That’s why companies like Bright House, Comcast, etc. can get away with being so horrible to their customers and stay in business. If it were me, I would drop the landline, get internet by tethering to my smartphone plan, and buy a cheap antenna from either one of the options above or Wal mart or Target.

If you absolutely must keep the landline, I would buy a mobile hotspot from T Mobile with a 3GB/month (or so) data plan and use that as your home internet. You’ll need to make sure T-Mobile has coverage for your house. Test it by inviting some one over who has T-Mobile and getting them to surf the web from their phone. If T Mobile doesn’t work, test Sprint. If Sprint doesn’t work, test AT&T or Verizon. One of them will probably work. But T-Mobile and Sprint are generally the cheapest. Once you’ve got your home internet through that hot-spot, you can set up a service like google voice. If you want to use your old landline phone, you’ll need an adapter like this one. After you’ve jumped through a few hoops, you should be able to port your old number over to a phone that actually hangs on the wall, but is powered by Google Voice. That should allow you to make free phone calls and only pay around $30-$40 for internet.

Hey Frank,

There’s really no good way yet without paying for a cable package. However, SlingTV is a new streaming service that is coming out soon that will probably let you do it for $20/month. You can read about it here.

As far as connecting to your Samsung 60, the easiest way would be to see if there was a SlingTV app available for the TV coming out soon as well. Pending that, an HDMI cord would probably work with a little setup.

Does that help?

-Paul