smh6921 wrote:You did - then I got mad at Time Warner for continuing to raise the price of internet. They were up to $44/month - each bill was going up for the same service for no reason. Figured I could get it cheaper and since I wanted to get some kind of paid TV service, we won't be watching the movies and stuff as much online and could go with a cheaper internet service. The bundles they offered me were more than Dish or Directv and didn't even give me as much.
If it makes you feel better I just received a bill from them for $600 and some odd dollars. I tried to call them on the phone and got alot of press this number and press this number without talking to anyone. I finally wrote a reply down on the bill trying to explain that your grandpa has been dead 5 years and when do you think you will quit writing me?
Sucks to be them.
In marriage there is always one person right. And the other one is the husband.
smh6921 wrote:You did - then I got mad at Time Warner for continuing to raise the price of internet. They were up to $44/month - each bill was going up for the same service for no reason. Figured I could get it cheaper and since I wanted to get some kind of paid TV service, we won't be watching the movies and stuff as much online and could go with a cheaper internet service. The bundles they offered me were more than Dish or Directv and didn't even give me as much.
If it makes you feel better I just received a bill from them for $600 and some odd dollars. I tried to call them on the phone and got alot of press this number and press this number without talking to anyone. I finally wrote a reply down on the bill trying to explain that your grandpa has been dead 5 years and when do you think you will quit writing me?
Sucks to be them.
TWC jacked up our internet $5/month to $55/month (we only get internet from them). So, the other day I found out that I could get Earthlink (over timewarner's lines, basically): $30 for 6 months, then $43/month after that. ($228 savings)
So I signed up. Then, called TWC to switch, and they offered me $35/month Internet for 12 months ($240 savings).
I figure once that ends, I can just switch to Earthlink for real, or maybe U-verse will be here, or TWC's Docsis 3.0 (hah) will be here.
Remember when I was getting 100 free channels just by plug-in the tv into the wall? Well, now that I have a new TV with a digital tuner, it can decode the signal, and the 100 free channels are back, and somehow, some are in HD?
So... after I started the sign up process for Earthlink, my internet was strangely degraded. Speed tests were showing about 1mbps, uplink was showing about 100-150kbps.
50 Mbps, Comcast? What the fuck? A fucking cable connection shouldn't have trouble streaming internet radio.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Earlier this week, Comcast shoved an "update" down the pipeline. Some new features, from least to most annoying:
1) DVR interface is shittier. The DVR menu no longer loops from latest to earliest; the navigation is strictly linear and not circular anymore. The percentage of the storage remaining is now permanently displayed, which is the sole a plus I've found.
2) TV Guide interface is shittier. The guide now requires you to scroll past whatever shitty-ass show they're advertising at the bottom of the screen EVERY FUCKING FOUR CHANNELS. It treats it like a permanently fixed channel on the guide screen. Navigating the menu is now 20% slower. Thanks Comcast, way to shove shit-tacular shows down my throat that I don't want.
3) The response time of the receiver reacting to the remote control has decreased to the point where I now have to wait twice as long between button pushes for commands to register. I'd almost swear they did this to make fast-forwarding through recorded shows slower.
4) I'm not sure if it's the TV or the signal coming in, but I've got the volume on the TV cranked to maximum and some channels barely come in over a whisper. 40-50% volume used to be plenty loud for any show. All shows now require a minimum of 70-80% volume on the TV to be heard remotely clearly. Fuck you, Comcast. Fuck you very much.
None except monopolists could get away with this much idiocy. Still waiting for AT&T U-Verse to haul its sloth-like ass up here.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
We moved to a new house 1 year ago. So during that time we had a new customer promo (we started new service in my wife's name instead of transferring it).
At any rate, the promo finally ended. So our bill went to $139/month (digital cable, one digital cable box + Extreme (5/30) internet).
So I called to cancel again today, and they gave us $40/month off for 12 months. $99/month isn't too bad. And I get to keep ESPN (the only channel I actually care about).
The $99/month finally ended, and ended up around $127/month for digital cable + Extreme internet. Canceled the TV.
This year's offer, $119 (including taxes, etc) for: Digital Cable, Extreme Internet (5Mbps/30Mbps), and Phone (including unlimited long distance + local), including 1 HD DVR, and an additional HD box. Good for 2 years.
I quit Time Warner TV about a month ago... went to DirecTV... right before the big Viacom Row and then we lost Spongbob and Futurama and the Comedy Central stuff for a week.
Anyway, saving about $75/month for TV. For the first 12 months.
Still have Time Warner internet and phone.... for now.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
