how much$ do you pay to run your computer???

[bajabob 718]

i was paying $69 . i call them up and told them i could no longer pay for there service.they went on and on asking me??after all there chatting they made my payments to$39.99 just so they can keep me with them. so i call the cable co. up and did the same thing and got a better deal.

[Bobcat]

Somewhere around 60 bucks, Comcast is the only game in town.

[Donskihp]

I've been with Hughes net for years,and always dissatified with there service.I pay $59 and the other day my sat box started crapping out. No cable or broadband avaliable in my area. Dial up! I think not. Came across wild blue yesterday,gonna give them a try gave me a better deal

[Underdog88]

20 bucks cable

[Donskihp]

Cable is more than 2 miles from me the told me it would cost me $20k for running the cable to my house. They certenly want my business!

[Ratickle]

Cable is more than 2 miles from me the told me it would cost me $20k for running the cable to my house. They certenly want my business!

Run your own cable, then call them back......

[Donskihp]

I wish it were that easy

[Slandrew]

$200 per month 3 modems&TV

[fund razor]

I wish it were that easy

I used to do cable construction in the 80s. All you needed back then was a couple of huge rolls of aluminum jacket coax, a couple of trenchers, (or spikes if aerial) and two or three hungover idiots. I'd do the splicing and the driveway fishes. We could cover that 2000 feet in three days. One day if easy aerial. We started a leg really hot with signal and then we would knock it down less and less as we ran to the end of the leg. That was it. More or less filter after a couple of massive amps. RF leakage was everywhere. The FCC went nuts. It probably cost 5-10k to build a mile back then. Underground was cheaper. Especially in a new sub.

Now the switching and the bandwidth distribution is crazy. Our system just started using bandwidth switching. If you leave your tv on the same channel for more than 2 hours, it prompts and then shuts off the high def if you don't respond. Bandwidth distribution, monitoring and realocation. It may just cost 30-40k a mile to build a leg now. Especially if aerial or existing subdivision.

What I fear is coming next is pay-per-byte.

Anyway... I think I give them 80 bucks for the second tier speed and cable tv.

[MacGyver]

What I fear is coming next is pay-per-byte.

If they do pay-by-kB, then as the consumer, I want à la carte channel selection.


$75.99 for 250+ channels I rarely watch (no movie channels either)
$2.50 for one cable card (no set-top box)
$44.95 for Road Runner @ 7Mbps
$8.83 in fees and taxes

Total=$132.27/month

[fund razor]

Good point. Of all the channels, I watch about 6.

I think that I pay 29.00 for 4mbps

[Bobcat]

With TV I pay a Hundred a month. I watch about ten channels.

I'm old enough to remember when the History channel actually showed history.

[fund razor]

History Channel had a show yesterday called Brewing History. Not bad.

[drpete3]

I dont have a land line anymore and I use pda.net for internet service off my blackberry at home. I paid $29 annual fee to pda.net. I am pretty happy with how it works and have a 3 g connection rate at my house.

[Donskihp]

I still have a land line, I'd ditch it if not for my business, I ned it for Faxing, and I'd not get any thing done if everyone had my cell #. With Wild blue I should be able to bundle my Ditect TV with innernet and maybe save a few bucks.

[MacGyver]

I still have a land line, I'd ditch it if not for my business, I ned it for Faxing, and I'd not get any thing done if everyone had my cell #. With Wild blue I should be able to bundle my Ditect TV with innernet and maybe save a few bucks.

I just ditched my landline for free internet phone through Ooma.com. All I pay is monthly taxes of around 4 bucks. And I got to keep my current phone number.

[fund razor]

I still have a land line. Hardly use it, but last year Verizon had a human-caused outage that killed my cell phone for 6 hours, and I worked for the cable company too long to trust their voice over modem phone service. Cable outages are too common. Then, one day earlier this year, I set my phone down in a wet spot on my kitchen counter and overnight the battery fried. Those two incidents convinced me that for 20 bucks a month... it's worth having a back-up.

[MacGyver]

I guess I'm lucky. I can't remember the last time I had a cable outage. Plus I keep my cable modem and other stuff on a UPS for power outages.

[drpete3]

I just ditched my landline for free internet phone through Ooma.com. All I pay is monthly taxes of around 4 bucks. And I got to keep my current phone number.

So you buy the box from some retailer and you dont even pay for a land line? Who are you paying taxes too?

[MacGyver]

So you buy the box from some retailer and you dont even pay for a land line? Who are you paying taxes too?

I pay the company that provides the service (Ooma.com). Basically Ooma became my new phone company.