|
|
Register To Post |
| TommyT-Bone | Cable/Satellite, Internet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
Chair-man of the bored
 
|
What do you have? Are you happy? What's the total price point of all three combined? 2 phone lines and DSL Xtreme 6.0 + $144.64 DIRECTV = $76.43 Total Sat/Ph/Int = $221.07 I've been with the same companies for many, many moons. This is how I'm treated. Cellphones (2) are another $80 a month with Boost Mobile. Just comparing apples to oranges. My wife wants to keep the telephone hard lines. We still have a fax hooked to one (in the office with the internet) and the other phone has been our home phone number for 30 years now. Friends and family still call on that one. Comcast has a TV/Internet bundle but it ain't cheap. Being the frugal guru, my home computer has to be about 9 years old now and hard wired too. Just want to hear some options from people other than the paid performers on TV. |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/7 21:34
Edited by TommyT-Bone on 2013/5/8 0:40:59 |
|||
 Transfer
|
 
|
||
| bogus | Re: Cable/Satelite, Inernet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
Grand Imperial Pooh-Bah
 
|
I am a huge fan of FIOS. best bang for buck,but you must have it available.
I am not a fan of depending on Comcast, Time-Warner, et.al., for my bundle... why? They ain't perfect... And if their data goes down, so does your phone. FIOS rides off the same lines as the phone, for the most part. It may be more expensive, but in a storm, or something, I know a hard line phone will be fixed before my cable... |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/7 22:26
|
|||
|
_________________
The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw Education is the best tool to overcome irrational fear. - me |
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| Ultraman | Re: Cable/Satelite, Inernet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
2015 Memorial Day Car Show Winner!
 
|
Direct TV = 100 bucks a month
Windstream is our DSL guys and land line....= 120/month Cell phone is Verizon = 400/month coast to coast......business phones are in this also.. |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/7 22:54
|
|||
|
_________________
2010 Grand Sport Coupe Gone but not forgotten... Vote DeSantis in 2024.... Make the IRS go away... |
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| BillH | Re: Cable/Satelite, Inernet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
The Stig Moderator
 
|
Cable
TV- Expanded Basic, HD Digital (with receiver) and a $5/mo thing with Velocity, Smithsonian, and the concert channels. Approx. 250 channels with no HBO,etc stuff (I don't do movies). Internet - 30 megs'sec. cable, never see anything "loading", instant on. Phone - no charge long distance. $146/mo. Charter Communications The down time is less than once per year and never has been more than 30 minutes. |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/7 23:06
|
|||
|
_________________
Every man dies but not every man lives. |
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| BillH | Re: Cable/Satelite, Inernet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
The Stig Moderator
|
BTW, my buddy with the paint booth just dumped Direct TV for cable because he was sick and tired of the down time. May vary by location I guess.
|
||
Posted on: 2013/5/7 23:09
|
|||
|
_________________
Every man dies but not every man lives. |
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| Ultraman | Re: Cable/Satelite, Inernet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
2015 Memorial Day Car Show Winner!
|
What kind of downtime? No cable out where we live....used to be big sat dishes 6 foot across or more....looked like NASA out here.....
|
||
Posted on: 2013/5/7 23:38
|
|||
|
_________________
2010 Grand Sport Coupe Gone but not forgotten... Vote DeSantis in 2024.... Make the IRS go away... |
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| BillH | Re: Cable/Satelite, Inernet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
The Stig Moderator
|
Quote:
Didn't ask. I was in the shop and he just mentioned it. |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/8 0:33
|
|||
|
_________________
Every man dies but not every man lives. |
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| TommyT-Bone | Re: Cable/Satelite, Inernet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
Chair-man of the bored
|
In Floridah you get downtime with heavy rain. Outside of that they're always on. It always seems to happen in the last two minutes of a game or in a critical point of the show you're watching. |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/8 0:39
|
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| teebee | Re: Cable/Satellite, Internet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
2014 Memorial Day Car Show Winner!
|
Our Cable, Land line and internet are from our local supplier. The Cable is basic (75 channels) with the HD bundle (33 HD channels including Velocity, HD movies). Internet is where I get frustrated. At times it is absolutely blazing and other times it will take 10 minutes to download a 2 minute song. This bundle costs us about $135/month. The cell phones (3 of them, with unlimited text and calls and data, share 4gb/month)from Verizon, runs $200.
Cable, land line and internet all on the same fiber optic lines. |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/8 2:22
|
|||
|
_________________
2007 Atomic Orange 3LT coupe. Borla Exhaust One of Americas' proud Deplorable 
|
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| CorvetteBob | Re: Cable/Satellite, Internet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
Elite Guru
 
|
We get ATT U-verse for Internet, Land Line, 4 mobile phones(one of those has a data pkg), and TV medium pkg (no HBO) all for just $350/month. My Property taxes are almost that, but they don't surf the 'net, or reach out and touch anyone.
|
||
Posted on: 2013/5/8 4:59
|
|||
|
_________________
Beauty, it’s in the eye of the beer holder |
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| bogus | Re: Cable/Satellite, Internet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
Grand Imperial Pooh-Bah
|
to more directly answer the question...
We have DirecTV, with HD package, and that's $94.00 a month. We have TimeWarner for HS Internet, and we have their fastest service, which is $80 a month. Cell is mine only, bastet's is on her business, and that's $80 or so, AT&T. Land is $35, I think. Through AT&T with the DirecTV deal. |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/8 20:54
|
|||
|
_________________
The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw Education is the best tool to overcome irrational fear. - me |
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| Scott7 | Re: Cable/Satellite, Internet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
Senior Guru
 
|
I guess I'm kind of on the opposite side on a lot of this. Cable, Comcast, is primary land supplier with 2 phone lines (unlimited long distance, lots of services on line one, line two POTS) HD package with HS Internet and multiple "premium" channels (including HBO, Showtime, Stars and Encore channels, etc.) for about $200 per month. Mobile, 2 numbers with unlimited services for data and voice, T-Mobile, averages ~ $95 per month.
Been with Comcast and T-Mobile for over 10 yr. No real complaints with either service. |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/9 0:43
|
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| vetteblondie | Re: Cable/Satellite, Internet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
Master Guru
 
|
Cable and internet here, with HD channels 120/mo, my cell service with unlimitd internet, text, mobile to mobile with a mobile home package for the one in the nursing home runs me another 120/mo.
|
||
Posted on: 2013/5/9 2:39
|
|||
|
_________________
The answer to any question that begins with "Am I the only one who..." is always "no". �Ugol's Law Yes, I'm a bitch... just not YOURS. 
|
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| Scott7 | Re: Cable/Satellite, Internet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
Senior Guru
|
Quote:
I forgot to mention yesterday you shouldn't worry about having to change any telephone numbers if you decide to move to another carrier. With number portability (basically it means you "own" the telephone numbers that you have) transferring to another carrier is not difficult. Sometimes the company you're leaving will try to hold up things by not readily transferring your numbers to the new carrier but its been a while since I've heard of that happening. So, if you choose to pick another communications company you can still keep those numbers that you've had for so many years. A condition that would supersede this rule is if you move into an area with a different area code (land lines only). Won't effect mobile service but will land lines. |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/9 18:19
|
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
| rklessdriver | Re: Cable/Satellite, Internet Access, Home Phone. | ||
|
Senior Guru
 
|
$190 a month thru Comcast Cable.
Internet, Phone & Digital Cable TV with HBO and Starz. Hard to believe it can be that cheap..... Will |
||
Posted on: 2013/5/9 18:24
|
|||
|
_________________
1984 Corvette. 434 SBC with a Powerglide. Best pass - 8.48@160MPH 1.23 60ft on MT 275/60R15 Radials. 1972 Corvette. LS5 454 BBC with M20 4 speed. Best Pass - Doing good to just pass a gas station. |
|||
|
Transfer
|
|
||
You can view topic.
You cannot start a new topic.
You cannot reply to posts.
You cannot edit your posts.
You cannot delete your posts.
You cannot add new polls.
You cannot vote in polls.
You cannot attach files to posts.
You cannot post without approval.
|
|