I too have the same plan. They advertised it as 2Mbit/s, but I tend to usually get 2.5 on the internet speed tests. It is good enough for 3 Pandora stations and multiple people browsing simultaneously without any noticeable problems. Occasionally I get a buffer pause while streaming videos, but other than that I see no reason to upgrade. I'll deal with the occasional 3 second delay to save $500/year over my next option.Their $15/mo internet is only 2Mbit/sec? That's a bit on the slow side. You would think their min. plan would be at least 3 or 5 Mbit/sec down.
I just got Internet Essentials for $10/mo for 10/1 service.
I too have the same plan. They advertised it as 2Mbit/s, but I tend to usually get 2.5 on the internet speed tests. It is good enough for 3 Pandora stations and multiple people browsing simultaneously without any noticeable problems. Occasionally I get a buffer pause while streaming videos, but other than that I see no reason to upgrade. I'll deal with the occasional 3 second delay to save $500/year over my next option.
Yeah -- I just got notice it's available in my neighborhood too. $80 per month.
Trick is I'm guessing if I change to that, they will cancel my UVerse TV and if they cancel my UVerse TV they will force me to get Direct TV (they don't offer UVerse anymore) and I refuse to go to a dish. I could get Time Warner TV instead, but then since I don't have a bundled service, AT&T put a data cap in. You can't win. The game is rigged against the consumer
AT&T fiber no longer has data cap for gigabit users even when unbundled. So you could get Time Warner TV and gigafiber without data cap. Or just gigafiber alone with no data cap. In my case, both Charter internet and AT&T fiber have no data cap so I'm good.
AT&T fiber no longer has data cap for gigabit users even when unbundled. So you could get Time Warner TV and gigafiber without data cap. Or just gigafiber alone with no data cap. In my case, both Charter internet and AT&T fiber have no data cap so I'm good.
I wish we had gigabit where we live. Spectrum tops out at 50/5, which is $70 a month under promotion, then $110 a month out of promotion.
We have the option of Fios, but I've heard horror stories. Does anyone here have Verizon Fios?
Wow, with spectrum here and have 200/10 for $40 without promotion. Well $50 but $10 off since bundled with TV. Basic TV channels 2-99 is $70. So my bill is just over $120 every month. If I could get my wife weened off watching hallmark channel and just stick with streaming services only I would be only paying that $50 a month and some change.
I wish we had gigabit where we live. Spectrum tops out at 50/5, which is $70 a month under promotion, then $110 a month out of promotion.
We have the option of Fios, but I've heard horror stories. Does anyone here have Verizon Fios?
Does your area have a lot of competition?
In many areas where I live there is no competition to Spectrum. We're lucky enough to be in a neighborhood with Fios available.
Though Spectrum doesn't care about that. I called up to negotiate another year of internet and phone, ready to show them what Verizon was offering. I was told, I would be paying $40 more than what I was paying at the time, and they would not budge. I ended up cancelling phone, and grabbed the 1 year promotion price for internet. I'm guessing that next year, I'm either paying $110, or seeing how bad Fios is.
That makes me wish I lived where you are. On DSL reports, there is a story that Verizon would consider buying Spectrum. If that happened, there goes the last of my areas "competition".There is a fair bit. Grande communications, Green Valley Electric, AT&T, Google, and a few others all provide high speed internet services around here.