I had the same comcast/xfinity triple pack. Got rid of the phone and TV and kept just the internet modem which has built in WiFi. I saved $200+/month, and I pay $30/mo extra for the high speed connection. I don't even know that I ever asked for the high speed stuff, I'm pretty sure I would not notice a slower connection. I kept it for now because I have 3 TV's with both Roku and Fire on them, plus 2 cell phones using wifi instead of data, and my wife has at least 3 ipad type devices she plays games on.

Anyway, Comcast didn't raise my internet connection at all, and actually asked my wife if she wanted to drop the high speed connection for a slower one to save even more money. Comcast was VERY accommodating to us LONG time customers dropping the TV and Phone stuff. In the past when I would complain about the expense, they always said it would cost more if you dropped the phone, and wouldn't save much if I dropped other services.

I also have $20 digital antenna's connected to my TV's. I never use it, but my wife occasionally watches a couple game shows on live stations, Jeopardy and a couple others. The antenna's get around 60 stations but most are junk, or already covered on the Roku/Firestick. The reception is pretty darn good though. Way better than it was in old days before cable.

Lastly, Comcast has a free streaming device that sounds like Roku/Firestick. Since it was free, I had them send me one. POS. It was worse than my smart TV connection. I disconnected it. It was not worth what I paid for it, which was nothing. I'm thinking they give it away to discourage customers from going the streaming route...

What people don't seem to understand is that you may have a perpetual right to use the software. The company will only support it until the next release comes out. This is true with not just Adobe but most other vendors. I had moved away from Photoshop to PSE due to the every 18-24 month upgrade cycle costing >$600. I was using Lightroom 5.7 and PSE 14 when Adobe announced the Photography Plan. For $9.99/month I could have the most current versions of Lightroom and Photoshop, it was a no brainer.

While supervising my wife's gardening tasks I noticed that the hummingbirds were congregating in the trees over her. Grabbed my trusty D500, 500PF combo and took some shots. 1/500, f 5.6, ISO 2200 to 5000. The birds just kept coming- 20 individuals or more! They would land on a branch for about 10 seconds then hover, wait for another bird to approach then buzz off to somewhere. Then a few more came in, followed this same routine, then a few started landing and staying for a few minutes. Anna's, juveniles I think, going by the incompletely covered ear hole and incomplete red feathering. #4 and #6 could be another species- Broad-tailed possibly. The bird with its tongue out is either testing the air (not smokey, yet) or telling me what it thinks- the latter most probably.

Made 782 images-most are good and useable. The images presented here are all of different birds, although it is difficult to tell. The event lasted less than an hour, from about 4:50 to about 5:45 PM PDT . They kept at it until dark. My neck hurt from bending around branches and leaves to get the shot. These birds look just like a leaf if they do not move-low light made things even more fun to photograph!

While watching the birds a Chickoree Squirrel came by screaming at me to leave. Forgot to change settings, so the images were all Very dark. Topaz pulled it out out of the noise!

Downloads tell the tale.

Enjoy!

As I understand their model, they’re a front-end portal and use Amazon S3 for their back-end storage, so I’d be comparing their cloud storage pricing to Amazon. Another downside of using them for cloud storage (other than the JPEG limitation you mention) is it’s one more layer between you and your storage that can fail, and if there’s a single Smugmug site that goes down, you can’t take advantage of the multiple copy geographically distributed storage that is a key advantage of Major cloud providers. Without sounding like fear mongering, I wouldn’t want a single portal to my data located anywhere near LA, SF or the Silicon Valley.