I have ATT Uverse. I have 12 MBPS internet. 200 channels and a landline.
Bill is $170.00
When I got it, It was like $100 per month. 6 month deal. Of the 200 channels, only maybe 10 are any good. Back in spring, I cut it to the basic TV package. It dropped my bill to around $115 per month.
I like college football, so this fall, my only option to get ESPN was to go to the U200 plan. I’ll drop it back to basic in January, but $170.00 for this?
I get offers from Charter to give me essentially the same deal for around $100. Of course it’s only 6 months.
I bought a ROKU box, and may just use that come January and cut off TV. But then if you dont have their package, they jack the price of inet.
Any suggestions for getting just high speed internet at a decent price without phone or TV? I’d be thrilled if I could get my 12MPS inet for say $50-$60 per month and kill everything else. I dont even use the phone, it just part of the package. I couldnt even tell you the phone number off the top of my head.
$150ish a month gets me all the regular channels plus HBO, Showtime, Movie Lovers Package, HD Plus Package (this is above and beyond the free HD), TWC Movie Pass, and 15 MB/s.
It appears to be just over 500 channels, with about 100 of them duplicated in the HD range, so maybe 400 discreet channels.
A few weeks ago I went into a TWC store to exchange my modem and the guy behind the desk ask me if I wanted to add RR Turbo (15mb instead of 10) and HD Plus to my account. When I asked how much it was, he told me that he could rearrange my bill so that it would be $3.00 less per month, so I took it. I’m waiting to see if it works out that way, but I know they’re about to do their annual price increase so it’s going to be hard to tell.
My bill with just the internet and basic TV is about $130, but it probably wouldn’t work out that way. With TWC the deals are pretty intertwined. For example, when I got rid of my cable box (for $10/mo) and got a cable card ($2.50/mo) my bill went UP because one of the deals got screwed up. I couldn’t get it fixed until I suggested to them that perhaps I should re-rent the box and throw it away (sarcastically). You’ll notice above I mentioned adding services and having my bill go down by $3.00. TWC is very good about giving deals and making sure your bill is always as low as they can get it. Often times just calling them and saying “Is there anything I can do to get the cost of my service down?” will result in the price dropping by $5.00 or $10 per month just because the person you spoke to found a different way to arrange your plans or there’s some deal running that month.
I have Comcast. With internet, one premium channel (Starz), and I think it’s called classic cable, the bill is around 118 a month. Probably going to drop Starz like a hot rock now that Torchwood has run its course and go back to HBO. The Starz movie lineup has been lame from day one.
I’m on an internet only package with Charter for a little less than $50/month. I checked my last bill and it’s $54.99 for the service plus $10 for “Internet Plus Upgrade” and some tax. Then the promo is for a $20 discount. I very rarely have a problem streaming movies and they buffer quickly.
I have just Internet from TWC and it costs $46.95/mo (I get a $3 discount for owning my own modem). I don’t know what I am paying for but I am getting about 1.5mbps down. I’ve never had an issue with streaming anything and I watch about 5 hours of Netflix a month.
I’ve got a computer built that’s hooked up to my 40" LCD TV and I get my entertainment that way.
Our cable TV is $110, for 2 HD boxes and about 150 channels, including 10 movie channels.
Our internet is DSL from an independant ISP for $30. The service has been poor until this week when I finally got the phone company to move our DSL connection closer. Now it is about 4Mbps down. This ISP gives me 300GB/month bandwith, far higher than the telco who cap it at 15GB. The frustrating thing is the phone company attitude to my DSL connection. Since I am not their direct customer my service comes secondary to their own. I suppose it makes sense except that $20 of my $30 goes to the phone company for the DSL line!
Phone line is ~$50, which I’d like to ditch. I wasn’t confident of moving to a VOIP provider given the slow speeds I was getting before, but I may investigate further now.
$50 per month for Verizon DSL and home phone (I wanted to get just DSL but unbundled that costs only a couple dollars less than both.)
$12 per month for Tivo (records HD shows from antenna)
$16 per month for Netflix (streamed to PCs, iPods, Roku upstairs, and PS3 and Tivo downstairs.)
Damn! There was an recent article in the AARP newsletter that had a link where you could type in your zip code and find the cheapest providers in your area. I already threw out the issue, but perhaps some diligent searching could turn it up for you?
$19.95 for internet from AT&T. It’s the cheapest one, less than 1mbps, but we have 2 computers and a Roku running at once and it’s enough.
Phone and cable are supplied by our apartments, although Dad has just ordered Vonage for long-distance (not sure how much that is), and a digital cable box for each of our 3 TVs at $5 each.
