[Pearls Before Swine]

Don’t they pay an internet connection charge to the cable company? I understand them owning the modem-router and having their own private servers, but you’ve got to connect to the pipe somehow.

[publius911]

Don’t they pay an internet connection charge to the cable company? I understand them owning the modem-router and having their own private servers, but you’ve got to connect to the pipe somehow.

Of course.
Fast Internet is the key. Most of us can't exist in 2016 without it. For under a 100 a month that, and a good OTA antenna is all most of us need.