Feel like cable internet bill is high

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sze5003

Lifer
Aug 18, 2012
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Triple play is like $99 a month before taxes. So that's like $110 a month after taxes. That's $50 more than what I'm paying just for cable internet.

Right but many of us just use cell phones..sometimes our work provides us cell phones anyway. So if it suites you sure go for it. But I really just could do with basic and internet except one channel my gf always watches when she is over, they don't offer on basic so I have to go with the preferred package which makes my internet only $10 more a month. For the speed I get I'm fine with that. If I were to just want internet I think it would be $60 alone.
 

JEDIYoda

Lifer
Jul 13, 2005
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What if you say that you're going to cancel if they don't offer a better deal and they still don't offer the deal? Then you're without internet, at least for a while. Maybe I'm thinking too much, like I usually do.
sometimes they say go ahead and cancel..lolol
 

ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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Right but many of us just use cell phones..sometimes our work provides us cell phones anyway. So if it suites you sure go for it. But I really just could do with basic and internet except one channel my gf always watches when she is over, they don't offer on basic so I have to go with the preferred package which makes my internet only $10 more a month. For the speed I get I'm fine with that. If I were to just want internet I think it would be $60 alone.

I have free grandfathered Ooma so I don't need home phone service. I don't need cable TV either. I cut the cord over a year ago. Everything we watch we stream for free from the internet and OTA. One channel we watch we get for free through QAM and HDHomerun. So unless the TriplePlay package is $62 or less, any extra we pay for TV and phone is money wasted as we won't watch or use it.
 

sze5003

Lifer
Aug 18, 2012
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I have free grandfathered Ooma so I don't need home phone service. I don't need cable TV either. I cut the cord over a year ago. Everything we watch we stream for free from the internet and OTA. One channel we watch we get for free through QAM and HDHomerun. So unless the TriplePlay package is $62 or less, any extra we pay for TV and phone is money wasted as we won't watch or use it.

I need to find our where the hell else I can get ID Discovery because that's all she watches all freaking day. Before her, I didn't have cable haha. Same as you, got everything from Netflix and stream services..one bill just internet and I had their business class internet too so speed was awesome.
 

mikeford

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Jan 27, 2001
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Pay no attention to intro rates, almost every provider will offer a better deal is you ask for one. Customer retention is the dept or something like that.

TWC is great for downloads, 21 mps for me, but its hard locked to 100k uplink. Outside of commercial accts nobody offers very good uplink speeds.

Good place for comparisions is www.dslreports.com Its free, register at no cost for more features, speed tests and big databases of reported speeds by provider and location.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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I pay around $160/mo for 50/30, home phone and the highest TV package over fibre. No cap. I can get higher than 50/30 but it would be capped. The upload is the big selling point for me. The local cable company here states they can give up to 200mb but that's still only 10mb up. Their standard packages are 1mb up. Downside is I'm not allowed to run a server. They don't have business packages either. If ever they do then I'll upgrade so I can run my own server and not need to lease anymore. Currently the highest package is 250mb, though the upload is still 30mb. I hope the tech allows for gigabit up and down, would be nice to see that in the future. But I'm happy with what I got now. Sure beats 6/1 that I had before.
 

Koing

Elite Member <br> Super Moderator<br> Health and F
Oct 11, 2000
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Man you guys are all getting f0cked...

England, Virgin Fibre 60mbps. I'm on some special deal where I pay for my years phone line up front £120 so I save £60 off that and then I only pay £10 per month for 6months then it reverts to about £21. The internet would be about £5 more expensive a month if I didn't get the phone line, so for an extra £5 I thought I might as well get the phone line.

I cancelled my Sky package as I wasn't watching anything.

Koin
 

AznAnarchy99

Lifer
Dec 6, 2004
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Man you guys are all getting f0cked...

England, Virgin Fibre 60mbps. I'm on some special deal where I pay for my years phone line up front £120 so I save £60 off that and then I only pay £10 per month for 6months then it reverts to about £21. The internet would be about £5 more expensive a month if I didn't get the phone line, so for an extra £5 I thought I might as well get the phone line.

I cancelled my Sky package as I wasn't watching anything.

Koin

Murica, place of the shitty internet providers.

I'm paying $15 a month for the lowest tier TWC but let's just say I'm getting faster speeds.
 
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