How much do you pay for the internet?

[manly]

Wait, wait, you have a double-play, with Internet and TV?

Or just straight-up Internet ONLY?

And they raised their rates on internet only, $5/mo, because of negotiations with TV providers?

What a load of Shenanigans.

Spectrum is probably just as bad as Comcast, but they get much less press coverage. I'm a little surprised some people have posted decent rates from Spectrum in this thread (albeit service offerings are regional). They are inflexible and outside of first year promos, I believe their minimum offering is at last $60 per month.

Having said that, if you are grandfathered into ELP (Everyday Low Price) from Time Warner Cable, it's not that bad. Although they recently bumped the price up to $20 per month (higher in some areas), downstream is now 20 Mbps, which is much better than it used to be (3 Mbps).

 

[ondma]

Why can't you replace the land line with VoIP? Even without a paid-for land line the act physical line can still process 911 calls.

My wife still wants a land line. Dont know why; thats what she is comfortable with I guess.

 

[sdifox]

My wife still wants a land line. Dont know why; thats what she is comfortable with I guess.

how would she be able to tell?

 

[squirrel dog]

68 54
27 mph

 

[iRONic]

My wife was saying that for /unlimited was to much.

So if you could kindly reply with:

Provider - Spectrum
Speed - 200 Mbps Down / 10Mbps Up
Price - $74.99
Unlimited

 

[Papagayo]

$45 for 400Mbit Fiberoptic soon to be $40
Cincinnatibell

 

[Ajay]

$45 for 400Mbit Fiberoptic soon to be $40
Cincinnatibell

Dayum! That’s good.

 

[renz20003]

It’s funny this thread got bumped. My wife was just bitching Sunday they raised it $10. I told her if she just held back buying one useless thing a month from amazon that would cover the $10.

 

[snoopy7548]

Comcast is raising their internet rates by ~$3/month. I recently dropped the Blast! internet (I think it was 300/10) for $95/month in favor of the Performance (100/5) for $75/month.

 

[herm0016]

century link trying to compete with city owned fiber ( not in our area yet) $65 no contract. bonded pair 80/20 or something like that. the hood is trying to get them to build out the fiber.

 

[TXHokie]

1Gb internet for $70 intro 1 yr and $85 after. Best real download I've seen tho has been 650Mb but still a big improvement from the old 100Mb for $60/mo I was using. Guess I was new customer for 1Gb internet on my street cause they had to send a crew out and dug up the lawn across 4 houses to bury the big cable to a new junction box. My neighbor was p1$$ed but hey, bandwidth >> nice lawn.

 

[ShookKnight]

NYC
Spectrum
$80
250Mbps (real speed, but advertised as 500Mbps I think..)

 

[BarkingGhostar]

My wife still wants a land line. Dont know why; thats what she is comfortable with I guess.

She wants it but you don't know why and don't care to go find out. LOL

 

[MtnMan]

$69.99 for 200/10, speed tests are usually around 230/15, Spectrum cable, internet only, no cap. It just went up last month from 65.99.

 

[skyking]

My Xfinity bill just went up 38 bucks. I called them up and they gave me about 11 of it back. There's another local provider so I'm bailing on those assholes.

 

[eng2d2]

My work notified me last year that they are discontinuing my internet for telecommute. I woke up friday without internet. LOL I called spectrum and they gave me 44.95 /month without wifi. I had no idea that spectrum control everything. I had free internet for years now I dont know what to do next year..

 

[JEDIYoda]

My work notified me last year that they are discontinuing my internet for telecommute. I woke up friday without internet. LOL I called spectrum and they gave me 44.95 /month without wifi. I had no idea that spectrum control everything. I had free internet for years now I dont know what to do next year..

ou get what you pay for

 

[VirtualLarry]

I called spectrum and they gave me 44.95 /month without wifi. I had no idea that spectrum control everything. I had free internet for years now I dont know what to do next year..

As for the Wifi, just buy a router and connect it to your modem, or as an AP to your gateway. Spectrum can't keep you from using your wifi-connected devices.

As for "spectrum control everything", I guess you're talking about regional cable franchise agreements?

 

[Meghan54]

100/25 fiber for $100/mo. from local telephone/cable company.

Other option for us is Xfinity....choice of speeds from them are 9/2 or 18/5 via copper. Neither are acceptable for speed and the price is over $45 for the 9/2, $60 for the 18/5.

One of the main problems with small towns.

Of course, our 5PM traffic jam lasts a whole 10 minutes or so, so there's that. And I'm 2 min. from a boat launch ramp.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Other option for us is Xfinity....choice of speeds from them are 9/2 or 18/5 via copper. Neither are acceptable for speed and the price is over $45 for the 9/2, $60 for the 18/5.

How long ago did you look at rate card? Those are old speed tiers. They should be 15/2 and 25/3, and 60/5.

 

[Muadib]

$69.99 for 200/10, speed tests are usually around 230/15, Spectrum cable, internet only, no cap. It just went up last month from 65.99.

I'm planning to go this route, but man that upload speed sucks. I guess I'll have to get adjusted to it, at least until at&t brings fiber to my hood.

 

[rh71]

I can't bring myself to go above my FIOS 75/75 triple play for $150 because while the gigabit monthly rates are low, they are only promo rates. I'm well into a decade of service so no more deals for us. Once the 2-yr promo ends on any new plan, the package will easily go above $200/mo. so I'm sticking with this.

My work notified me last year that they are discontinuing my internet for telecommute. I woke up friday without internet. LOL I called spectrum and they gave me 44.95 /month without wifi. I had no idea that spectrum control everything. I had free internet for years now I dont know what to do next year..

You're lucky you had it this long. I WFH everyday and they stopped paying for us well over a decade ago because having high speed internet at home beyond DSL was the norm already so we should already be paying for it ourselves. They used to reimburse up to $50/mo. - that was pretty sweet.

 

[Ajay]

My bill just went up $25/mo. Comcast boosted my Internet speed to 200mbps. While that’s nice, it negotiation time. I hate that I have to do this every 2 years. They have no competition in my city because we have a call/service center here.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

My bill just went up $25/mo. Comcast boosted my Internet speed to 200mbps. While that’s nice, it negotiation time. I hate that I have to do this every 2 years. They have no competition in my city because we have a call/service center here.

This makes no sense to me. If one ISP has a call/service center in your area that negates any requirement for the local franchise authority to instill competition?

 

[Scarpozzi]

My bill just went up $25/mo. Comcast boosted my Internet speed to 200mbps. While that’s nice, it negotiation time. I hate that I have to do this every 2 years. They have no competition in my city because we have a call/service center here.

In my area, cable internet is split between Spectrum and Comcast. I had Charter (Spectrum), but cancelled because they bumped their pricing to $65/month.

I'm really waiting on more competition to show up through WISP technologies in the next few years to make things more interesting....I'm still limping by on 50GB/month using a Sprint hotspot (basically included in the cell plan I already have).