I'm paying 52.50 for basic comcast internet

[b*saint]

With a package discount. It just went up. What the fuck!? I have basic cable and basic internet and its $100 a month. I'm going back to $15 DSL, 8 dollar Netflix, and an HD antennae.

[samiam3356]

99 for phone, internet, and cable...Comcast...had to bitch to get it though.....

must have 8 netflix no matter

[delatlanta1281]

Easily at 200 a month with everything. I need my soccer channels and my HBO though.

[m73m95]

ROKU to the RESCUE!!

[pureaudio]

I refuse to be a slave to satellite/cable TV. HD antenna, netflix, downloads and I'm golden, if I can't get it there then I don't really need to watch it.

Edit: Whoops, reading comprehension escapes me, I thought the title said comcast cable.

[e30orDie]

What Meg connection tho? It's 50$ a month here for 12Mbps >_<

[nando]

I've been an unhappy customer of Comcast since ATT@home folded. No other real choices currently. But at least there's a ray of hope for the future.

Comcast's hold on landline high speed internet is in danger. In 10 years, it will be a relic like dial up is now - eaten up by the wireless companies (VZ, ATT, Sprint).

It's already close now. Why pay another $50-100 a month for cable/internet, when your $150 phone plan will cover that too, and you can use it anywhere? A rooted Android can be used as a Wifi router for your laptop, too.

The wireless companies are spending billions and billions every year on infrastructure. What's Comcast been doing the last 10 years? My internet sure hasn't gotten any faster.. and it's still tied to the ground.

[samiam3356]

online gaming will always have a need for land lines imo. Wireless throttles to much for that, also imo. Not a gamer but i want my shit fast when I do play.

[StereoInstaller1]

I pay $59.95/mo for Commiecast, basic "starter" HD, box, modem and 12MBps intarwebz.

As Nando said, shortly there will be serious options. Wireless is the future. PCs are on their way out, that thing you carry around will be your workstation, your email/surfing device and your pornograph, all in one.

The Atrix is the wave of the future, but it is retarded. All we need is a generic dumb terminal to plug our phone into, and all your bases will be mine.

[nando]

online gaming will always have a need for land lines imo. Wireless throttles to much for that, also imo. Not a gamer but i want my shit fast when I do play.

currently, yes. but that will change. Give it time. Wireless is going to eat landline's lunch. Sort of like how CRT monitors were still important to hardcore gamers.. for a little while. LCDs eventually won, simply because they were better.

plus, my cable internet connection was far faster as far as latency is concerned in 1999 than it is now. I used to get less lag playing online than I did going to LAN parties connected straight to the same switch. Now? I might get faster overall download speeds, but the latency is terrible.

[tjts1]

With a package discount. It just went up. What the fuck!? I have basic cable and basic internet and its $100 a month. I'm going back to $15 DSL, 8 dollar Netflix, and an HD antennae.

Call comcast. Tell them if they don't reduce your rate you will cancel the service. They reduced our rate from $57 to $27.50 after I called. They would rather keep you at a reduced rate than lose you all together. The important point is you have to say that you're going to leave. The customer rep on the phone is not allowed to offer you a reduced rate until you say you're ready to cancel the service.

[nmlss2006]

Nando, technology at present and for the forseeable future does not have the capability to viably provide landline-like reliability, speed and latency to its present customers, much less to the amount of customers that would arrive if landline were to go away. It isn't even true outside of the US, where wireless capabilites suck much less.
Fibre is a much better choice for all involved and even that is taking ages - we'll still be dealing with copper for a long time.

[nando]

I'm not saying landlines will go away. dial up is still around. What I'm saying is comcast is in trouble if they think they can keep charging $65 a month for cable internet with the same level of crappy service they have now, or $100-$200 a month for cable internet + TV. Comcast has been at the bottom of customer satisfaction lists for a long, long time. People like me will jump ship as soon as there is a viable alternative, which IMO is just around the corner.

plus, look at smartphone/tablet growth. The demand there is huge. I don't even use a PC at home anymore, it's been replaced by my smartphone. My wife has a netbook that will probably get replaced by a tablet this fall.

[87e30]

^ smart man. no homo.

[bimmerteck]

I agree with Nando that comcast's stranglehold on home internet will come to an end in the future. Hopefully sooner rather than later, but I see the future with my own eyes daily and it makes my comcast connection at home look stupid slow. I am now patiently waiting on fiber to be available in my neighborhood. :bow: Wireless just can't support the throughput that fiber can at this time.


Work



Best of my tests from home. (usually hovers around 18 Mb/s with an 80ms ping :( )



A good friend's test from when he got fiber at home.