Posted on 09/08/2010 8:32:04 AM PDT by Dacula
Does anyone have experience with Century link? Today is my hook up day and I feel like I’m getting screwed for $50 a month for DSL after reading some of these posts.
Check with your cable TV provider. Cable actually is faster than DSL in some locales. Brother-in-law has satellite Internet because there are no other options available in his area. It works OK, but is pricey.
I'm using Charter, 5 meg, very satisfied with the service.
Also in my area, Century Link, they have sent out adds every mo. DSL and pH. for only $49.99 for twelve Mo’s. What they don't tell is with the pH. there is an $18.00 mo. charge for taxes and other use taxes, total bill $70.00 per Mo. I called them and ask for just DSL, won't provide service with out pH. service. Also, if you are running Magic Jack, which I do, the service isn't allowed and is blocked with their service.
With Charter and Magic Jack, I'm paying a total of $55.00 per Mo. which I think is too much but at this time is the best I can get.
I would like to steer away from cable companies. I have weened the family from DISH and we have been using internet TV and Netflix.
I am looking at saving well over $120 a month from this garbage. With my savings I am going to buy a better PC.
What do you pay for your Verizon FIOS setup?
We don’t have them yet in our neighborhood.
Basically AT&T disconnected my landline for phone use, but i can still use it for internet service.
The difference in price is about $30 for phone use that i never use,reduced to $10 for just internet service...
http://www.punny.org/money/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-dry-loop-dsl/
Slainte....
Here trying to get “just internet” is not possible, not from Comcast or Knology, or AT&T. I have no TV and don’t want one. I prefer my land line phone for several reasons. Any deal I can make for DSL or cable internet is a minimum of $70 a month. AT&T quotes much lower initial figures but the fees and addons that they refuse to tell you about up front bring the price right back up to that $70. I long ago learned that ALL telephone companies are liars about prices and the quoted prices, no matter how you ask for them, are always severely augmented by the time you get your third bill.
Get a cheap antenna and get the free over the air HD shows.
Digital over the air TV is great- and free.
I am over 50 miles from Atlanta and can not get a signal.
Look up “Gray-Hoverman antenna”. If you ever have an afternoon free for a DIY project-$20, 2 hrs.
(They sell them too.)
It’s very simple and cheap and is a breakthrough in antennas.
I’m in the mountains getting stations 50 miles away. Don’t even have it on a pole, just hanging from the eave of the house.
We have property in N. Alabama and we pick up most Atlanta stations with a digital antenna like this: http://www.amazon.com/Antennas-Direct-DB2-Directional-Antenna/dp/B000EHUE7I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1283975199&sr=8-2
We are in the same boat as you with our internet up there though, we are using a data card with our computer and a wagi antenna to pick up a cell phone signal. That is about $30 a month but unreliable.
I agree with you 100%,we are still waiting for our first bill to see what is really going on...As we signed no contract i can cancel at a minutes notice...
Here in the Bay Area we have hundreds of little internet providers,i do not care if it is high speed i am not in a hurry so if we have to shop around so be it...
I will let you know when we get the bill..
Slainte..
I used to be on the phone line with a 56kb modem and had to get a second line for the computer. With the dedicated line I thought it worked pretty well but had not experienced cable or DSL yet. When I realized that Knology would cost about the same I switched. After a couple of years Knology got a bunch more expensive but when I checked with friends who had phone line (2 lines) or DSL or Comcast they were all paying about the same. A buddy of mine got Bellsouth (now ATT) DSL in his business for actual $25 a month when they had just started DSL and he is still paying $25. I don’t know how he did that but he did. For me it would work out to $70 now.
When we signed up over a year ago, the Internet/phone/television package was $99 + $10 for the 20mb speed upgrade. Of course if you add HD DVRs and movie channels it goes up a bit. Still we're very satisfied.
A new technology coming out will likely replace both Ma Bell and Cable and for that matter satellite TV. You will get phone service, TV, and Internet via your power lines into your home. The U.S. Power Grid will be the communications grid as well. The planing and research is about a decade old now.
AT&T isn't expanding any services these days and is mainly keeping the equipment in place functional. Their maintenance/installer repairmen crews have been cut back to bare bones. IOW no more what you can really call honest to goodness technology upgrades happen. If an areas phone cable become over burdened then and only then will they run a newer one and only because by law they must. Cable servie companies have also nearly stopped any expansion into rural areas because they too know this technology is coming. AT&T's as well as giants like Comcast, Cox, etc future will be as a sales agents for the new system.
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