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Who is your Internet Provider?

I'm with Midcontinent (they only exist in the Dakotas and part of Minnesota), and they're amazing.

For $119/mo, I get phone (unlimited local and long distance), very quick internet with no bandwidth caps, and digital cable with a DVR and HD service, which is a pretty good deal.
Despite the insane weather we get up here, I've never had my phone, internet or cable cut out, which is pretty impressive.

The best part is that their support people are located somewhere in the upper midwest, so the only time I've had to call them, the issue was resolved within 5 minutes without me having to guess at what the support person was saying.
 
Been dealing with Charter here--been more like a war, actually. Charter came out and put a switching system on my property without anyone's permission--keeps about 2000 homes in cable. Got 15 days late on a payment, they cut me off. Called them and told them I was going to take a chainsaw to their switching system--they called the cops. Cops said it was a "Civil Matter" and it had to be settled by the Courts--I told Charter it was now going to cost them $1000 a month to keep that huge box on my property unless they provided free or highly discounted services to our household. Charter said the City had given them permission to install the box. I went to the city and they denied it and told Charter such. Now, as the result of a settlement, I get all my cable (over 400 channels),internet (16M), and phone with unlimited long distance for nothing but the City franchise fees and taxes ($55 per month for ALL), PLUS Charter had to plant ornamental shrubbery around the box. And YES, the City said i had to right to order the box removed from my property at any time--Too bad Charter is the only deal in town:focus:
 
Brushman said:
I'm on Virgin Media @ 20mb and I have no problems apart from the odd shut down of my router. A simple reboot and I'm away again.
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Me too Brushman. I have the XL package and few problems but I too have the router reset thing. Sky came to the door yesterday and offered me the same package (so the salesman said ) for £20 p.m. less but it would mean going back to copper wires and I like fibre optic cables. No interference. Where I live the phone wires pick up BBC Radio 1. I could put up with Radio 2 :)
 
n4gix said:
Comcast... $102/mo for 12Mbps and 35 channels of nothing much. I used to get SciFi channel, but they moved it to digital only a few years ago...
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Crapcast here too, only because they have a monoply for our area. Got the 35 channels and slow broadband only.... for 102/mo. :frown: Phone is thru Vonage. :d

I've got SciFi with our setup Bill..... It hasn't moved to the "expensive gotta have their box" deal yet. And they keep raising prices like there's no tomorrow. :angryfir: Tho there are certain stations we should be able to do away with that are CRAP. Cable is direct from the wall to the LCD TV.

I'd go back to Roadrunner if I had the chance. Cost less, you got more, and no hassles.
 
for you guys who are using comcast, a noteable fact -
when i was using them several years ago, i had t.v. and internet because my son was living there. when he moved out i dropped the t.v. and my bill actually went up $2/month
 
Henry said:
i use rabbit ears and tin foil
but when that gets slow
i use AT&T
its not fast but i refuse to deal with comcast
and for home i do not mind AT&T
it beats dial up
and i have never had a problem:typing:
H
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Same here, my Verizon DSL is good and all the speed I need, once every couple of months something happens that causes the connection to be lost but disconnecting the modem for a minute or two and "rebooting" it so to speak, solves the problem. I use Verizon phone as well. I wish FIOS was available where I live, I'd switch in a heartbeat to get rid of overpriced Comcast for my TV cable. Especially considering how little I use it.
 
I had Hughes Net which was a nightmare. Since I lived out in the country there was dial up or satellite. Hughes net was very expensive for what you got and there was a throttle if you exceed 200 MB a day which included just surfing. If you exceeded the 200 MB you were throttled back to dial up speeds for about 24 hours. I never spoke to anyone in the USA on the first contacts to address issues and there was always the language barrier. Only after service issues were escalated did it switch back to the US.

Weather was always an issue. It didn't have to be raining just moisture laden clouds was enough to lose signal.

I have Embarq now which is the local phone service that was spun off from Sprint and finally made it to the county via the telephone lines

Half the price and 10 times as fast with no limits. I am extremely pleased with Embarq.

VCN-1
 
kilo delta said:
In the words of the (great?) Smokie song:

"Alice, Alice? Who the F*** is Alice?!!"
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:d


www.alice.de ;)
 
Bjoern,

That is too funny...

:ernae:

Gotta love Picard..



My service is Cox. I shouldnt write this, but I pay roughly $250.00 a month. Its horrible. Cable is astronomical, but I get SciFi, Discovery, and the 3 Christian channels. Internet is massively fast. And we have a phone. Thats 3 services.

I am ready to cancel it all and go with Quest for HS internet. The money is not worth it. Cox have treated us rough in the past, even with paying that much money. For the longest while, they were the only ones. Now they have competition and their high prices are now an option. :)

I really need HS internet for uploading all my files, otherwise it can take hours. So HS is a must.

I know what you mean Moe.... Why do they need to keep raising their rates??? They are the most expensive! Is it for all their commercials on TV?



Bill
LHC
 
Comcast cable Internet, Direct TV HD. Cable TV cannot compare or compete with DTV's quality and price. DTV's DSL leave's much to be desired at about the same price as Comcast Internet only. I've only had Comcast, once Adelphia, go down one time in the five years I've been wired. Since I have a good friend in management, one call got that fixed the next day. Cable went down at the connection on the road because of high winds.

I do like the high speed of my cable, don't know if I could live with Verizon or anything slower. Now, if fiber cable comes to Danville like it was planned to several years ago (they already have it in city government and all rescue, public schools, and colleges in the city proper), I may have to look into that. Saw a demo at the Center of Advanced learning and it is whopper-jack fast! Like a video is downloaded before you can bat an eyelash fast! Imagine what online play could be like with that! :ernae:

Caz
 
Lionheart said:
Bjoern,
My service is Cox. I shouldnt write this, but I pay roughly $250.00 a month. Its horrible. Cable is astronomical, but I get SciFi, Discovery, and the 3 Christian channels. Internet is massively fast. And we have a phone. Thats 3 services.

Bill
LHC
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:jawdrop: Bill, doesn't it hurt when you sit down? I always say... "if yer gonna screw me, ya'd better kiss me first". You must belong to the Scrod Club.
 
Well her in aus I use TPG, 1.5 mb, ye its slow,telstra being dragging there feet for years, ADSl2 still being rolled out, tke for ever, hasnt reached me yet, but i am happy, service is reliable, and i dont download much, but they keep changing the options and bnever tell us which is a pain in the but. Gtot ask fo a change more download same price.
 
Cable connection via Cox.net is the only broadband option here in north San Diego county. Reliability is 100% for connection but I'd put reliability at 99% since some DNS are not recognized from time to time. Taking the laptop across town and trying from there works so I figure it's my provider. Anyway, $154 with phone and cable TV. Ouch but no other fast options. :173go1:
 
:woot:

Another Cox Cable/Internet user here! We've been with them since the first morning they provided cable internet to Hutchinson in September, 1998. They were formerly known as RoadRunner. I believe we were their first cable internet client in Hutch!!

We don't pay as much as Bill does but we don't have their phone service either but I love the HD channels, DVR is great, the extra movie channels and all the sports channels are spectacular. We have the preferred service which states download speeds @ 12 Mbs but I've tested it several times at speeds over 20 Mbs. Our cable internet cost is $35 per month. Cable TV and all our HD DVR boxes and packages brings the bill to just south of $200 per month. I don't know why but we have five TV's and four computers for three people.

The internet reliability has been near perfect. We had a period of time when we experienced some delivery issues but Cox was right on top of fixing the problem and then proceeded to upgrade their delivery network in our neighborhood.

Kevin
 
250 bucks a month...chet...I gonna shut my mouth. I hope for that price you get all the paid channels include the Play Boy channels and all the paid for view channels too. My wife would have to work the street corner and at the bank 24/7...lol
 
Yup, Cox here too (PHX). My theory on why it's so durned expensive is all of the advertising they do. I work for the USPS, and Cox is by far the most prolific sender of "bulk buisness mail" (aka junk mail). I've had days where they send out a separate piece of mail for each of their services (TV, Internet, Phone). Multiply that by the 600 or so delivery points on my route alone and we're talking a MAJOR chunk of cash, even with the bulk rate they're paying, and that's just my route. For the entire Metro Phoenix area we're talking tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars for one mailing. These things have gone out as many times as three times in a single week! Thats why your cable/ISP/phone rates are so high.:173go1:
 
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