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we have at&t dsl. i would not recommend it. the signal is extremely unreliable, drops out several times a day, and requires a re-start a couple times a week. i hate it. that said, had TW prior and although the signal didn't drop as often, it still required restarts every so often.
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pondering cutting back to internet only - what are the least expensive options?
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groundrules
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Snarf wrote >>
Guess I'm pretty lucky to never have had an issue with Time Warner?I'm with you man. i think i've restarted my router 3 times in three years. Sometimes things slow down a bit, but i've never had outage issues with TW. Doesn't mean I love their price creep shit, but they are consistent.
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Patch
Schumacher Place
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To revisit the topic, I just cut back to AT&T DSL, $19.99/month. Its a pretty good deal, plus I get about 15 channels through the old rabbit ears.
No real withdrawl symptoms yet, besides missing some of the channels to watch the NCAA Tourney.
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ricospaz
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We noticed our WOW cable wasn't working Monday.. called them, they said they'd been trying to get a hold of us to tell us our bill is going up $10... I guess we never called them back (blame my wife) and though we'd just paid our bill on March 7th, they chose to cut off our service on 3/19. After a call they restored service, actually credited us the $10 for this month too. But seriously, cut off service to a faithful subscriber? I'm checking out options.
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cheap
Westgate
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ricospaz said:
We noticed our WOW cable wasn't working Monday.. called them, they said they'd been trying to get a hold of us to tell us our bill is going up $10... I guess we never called them back (blame my wife) and though we'd just paid our bill on March 7th, they chose to cut off our service on 3/19. After a call they restored service, actually credited us the $10 for this month too. But seriously, cut off service to a faithful subscriber? I'm checking out options.we left TW and went with WOW after TW jacked our bill up as well
we dumped the cable,nothing but 200 channels of the same old bullshit.we just have broadband and VOIP phone for $75 a month.
no surprises yet.
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murfmurphy
Westgate
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I have a PC being shipped in a couple of weeks that is going to be hooked into the TV for streaming and download services. Time Warner is running 10mbs internet and unlimited phone for $40 per month the first year, and $50 after that. We have Netflix right now, and will sign up for Hulu+, I also get Amazon Prime for $40 per year. So our current cable internet phone bundle is going to drop to about $70 per month.
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ricospaz
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jimbach said:
In my experience, when comparing AT&T DSL with cable internet, there is no comparison, the cable internet provided by Time Warner or Wow is much, much faster.That's what I hear, and HD picture quality isn't as high (bandwidth issue?)... my Wow Internet speed is the best I've ever had.. ever.
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mrpoppinzs
Arena District
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GCrites80s
5xNW
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Sounds like they prefer customers have wet loops.
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gramarye
In Exile
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jimbach said:
In my experience, when comparing AT&T DSL with cable internet, there is no comparison, the cable internet provided by Time Warner or Wow is much, much faster.This is my experience as well, from someone who switched from AT&T to TWC. TWC did indeed hit me with price increases after that, so I'm not particularly loyal, but what that primarily means is that I will never consider getting cable or phone services from them (since the price increases will simply be even larger in absolute terms). I have RoadRunner Turbo, which is their strongest residential high-speed Internet offering, at least in my area (NEO). It is blazingly fast when it's on, and the outages are not particularly frequent, though more often than Snarf and groundrules were experiencing 8 months ago. I probably have one outage a month or so, usually only for a few minutes to an hour.
Cable Internet really shines on off-peak hours in particular.
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DavidF
Elysium Fields
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MattEllis said:
you know that if you call and even remotely suggest that you're looking at alternative providers then your monthly rate will suddenly drop as customer service finds a new 'special' they didn't have 2 minutes prior to your suggestion.+1 TW tried that crap with us. We cried foul and they dropped us back to our old rates.
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joev
Merion Village
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MattEllis said:
you know that if you call and even remotely suggest that you're looking at alternative providers then your monthly rate will suddenly drop as customer service finds a new 'special' they didn't have 2 minutes prior to your suggestion.When I did this, Time Warner only budged $5. So I went to Wow. Wow's website is actually easy to use, I built my own bundle, and will now be getting a DVR and 250 HD channels on top of what I was getting from Time Warner for a few dollars less than my old rate.
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Cookie
Flyntonville
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Twixlen
The Weston District
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DavidF said:
+1 TW tried that crap with us. We cried foul and they dropped us back to our old rates.I had TW for years and years and did the call-to-drop-rates thing with success every time they jacked the rates. Then they *doubled* my rate, and I called to have them drop it... "the best they could do" was knock $10 off the doubled rate. I dropped them on the spot. (This is about 3 years ago.)
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