jmcgeejr
join:2000-05-15
Kirkland, WA | step in the right direction
its great they are offering faster speeds but they could be a little bit more price savvy. I expect to pay 49.99 or 59.99 for 10/1 and 39.99 for 5/512 and 29.99 for 3/256 but oh well ... |
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lemkepf
join:2003-06-12
Elkhorn, WI
| What about WI???
Yea, i love the 10Mbps service in other areas that's fine... but i bet they are just trying to compete with the other service providers in the area.
Why can't they upgrade my *maybe* 3Mbps... oh wait, i'm in the middle of nowhere with no other providers competing with them. Yea, i have a feeling i'll be 3Mbps for a very long time. |
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haplo2112
join:2003-05-12
Charlton, MA | Yeah 10/1 wonderful...but 69.99...insane!
I am a Charter Customer, rumor is if you call in my area (Charlton,MA) you can get the 10/1 speeds...however at $69.99 that's just way to expensive. 10/1 should have been an automatic upgrade from 5/512 for the same price. Not $20 more. |
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wdoa
join:2001-10-16
Spencer, MA
1 edit | reply to jmcgeejr
Re: step in the right direction
Charter has never been known to be "price savvy", here in Central Mass their HSI has always been much pricier than DSL.
Charter's Corporate rule #1 seems to be "don't compete on price". |
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jmcgeejr
join:2000-05-15
Kirkland, WA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to haplo2112
Re: Yeah 10/1 wonderful...but 69.99...insane!
said by haplo2112  :I am a Charter Customer, rumor is if you call in my area (Charlton,MA) you can get the 10/1 speeds...however at $69.99 that's just way to expensive. 10/1 should have been an automatic upgrade from 5/512 for the same price. Not $20 more. yeah but you iknow what thats never going to happen cause too many people will call and order it and pay those prices now if noone ordered it then mabye charter would change thier pricing structure. |
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AMDUSER
Premium
join:2003-05-28
Earth
clubs:
 ·RoadRunner Cable
2 edits | reply to wdoa
Re: step in the right direction
Here in North-Central WI, Charter is overpriced.
A sampling of prices locally, per month:
...Charter------------------------------- Verizon
$36 384/128 kbps $14.95 768/128 kbps
$46 3meg /256 kbps $29.95 3 meg/ 768 kbps
$35 3 meg/ 768 kbps Dry Loop
For Charter add $10 if not subscribed to any other service.
For Verizon add about $5 to regular price if subscribed to Dry Loop DSL.
Both: add applicable sales taxes / fees. Prices show, if not specified are the 'bundle' rates for those services. |
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aglinka
join:2005-10-21
Saint Johnsbury, VT | reply to jmcgeejr
Re: Yeah 10/1 wonderful...but 69.99...insane!
Yeah -- people will take it not thinking, because 10Mbps is faster than DSL, however overpriced it is |
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TonyC999
@bellsouth.net
| price too high
I just switched from Charter 3/256 to BellSouth DSL 6/512 a few months ago....double the speed for about the same price. I'd be tempted to switch back over to Charter for 10/1, but $69.99 is about 50% more than I'm paying now. So I doubt I'll do it. $55 would be about the most I could afford, and I really can't afford that, but I would do it anyway. $70...no way. |
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BoMarty
join:2001-02-01
Ballwin, MO
| Have Charter's 10/1 for one week in St Louis
All of a sudden, the complains that "I NEED MORE UPLOAD!" are gone  (except for the markets that have yet to see Charter's 10/1 or even 5meg)
Was on 5/512, the double upload is a big enhancement for me personally.
Still have to fix the unstable download speed. Was solid on 5meg package, but far short of getting 9 or 10meg with new package. Work in progress...............
My upload is great and very stable, speed test 99% of time are at or higher than 1meg |
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jarablue
Always be true to yourself
join:2001-06-11
Worcester, MA | I would love to have 10meg. I'd be using my giganews connection even moe! They don't offer it here even though they offer it to towns that come out of the same headend. Odd. Ah well go go go Charter supa speed! |
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cluth
join:2004-01-06
Anchorage, AK
1 edit | reply to AMDUSER
Re: step in the right direction
Ugh, you folks in the Lower 48 make me mad! Up here, GCI's a great provider and has good customer service, but we're paying $99.99 per month for 10/384--and that's on TOP of a subscription to "The Ultimate Package" (a telephone/cable TV/broadband lite bundle, as GCI is both our cable provider and our local CLEC). The Ultimate Package is $79.99 per month. Without the Ultimate Package, $99.99 gets you 4/384. And add $7 if you don't have cable TV with GCI.
The competition's almost worse: the ILEC, ACS, offers 320/240 DSL for $49 and 1/320 for $70 (add $5 if you don't have ACS long distance). They offer nothing more than 1mbps unless you're a business.
I subscribe to GCI'S Ultimate Package, some extra long distance minutes (total of 500), a DVR, and the 5/256 cable modem plan (only a $49.99 upgrade to the Ultimate Package), and my GCI bill is $170-ish per month. Yikes. I've been thinking about ways to trim that down, but I don't have a reliable fallback (both my EV-DO and my GSM cell phone service is iffy around my house, despite that it's a well-populated area of the city), and I'm too much of a techno-geek to give anything up.
My point: be grateful for what you have down there at the prices you do! (And if any state regulators are reading this, hint: it'd be nice to figure out how to get a little more competition up here...how about adding another franchise license up here or something...) |
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tstolze
Premium
join:2003-08-08
O Fallon, MO
 ·CenturyLink
| reply to lemkepf
Re: What about WI???
said by lemkepf :... but i bet they are just trying to compete with the other service providers in the area I can tell you in the St. Louis area the most that is offered by ATT is 6/768, and Centurytel is at 3/512. Of course these are both PPOE so throw 15% of that out the window. Although the 10 meg is nice, I went for it for the upload, with two gamers, a website being updated every 5 minutes and with my wife loving to upload pictures for processing this seems just right..
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haplo2112
join:2003-05-12
Charlton, MA | reply to jmcgeejr
Re: Yeah 10/1 wonderful...but 69.99...insane!
Ha...if no one ordered it at 69.99 Charter would turn around and say there was no demand for 10/1 and claim that the 5/512 is just right and its price is justified... |
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wjr110
join:2005-02-23
North Salem, NY | "500Mb/s" ?
1.2 megabytes to 500 megabits? They mean 500 kilobytes, right? |
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Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
clubs:
| reply to AMDUSER
Re: step in the right direction
said by AMDUSER :Here in North-Central WI, Charter is overpriced. A sampling of prices locally, per month: ... Charter------------------------------- Verizon
$36 384/128 kbps $14.95 768/128 kbps
$46 3meg /256 kbps $29.95 3 meg/ 768 kbps
$35 3 meg/ 768 kbps Dry Loop
For Charter add $10 if not subscribed to any other service. For Verizon add about $5 to regular price if subscribed to Dry Loop DSL. Both: add applicable sales taxes / fees. Prices show, if not specified are the 'bundle' rates for those services. Aren't you kind of comparing apples, and oranges here?
Those appear to be Verizon's promotional prices, not what their price will be when the specials end at the end of the contract term.
Cable companies also offer special deals. It's just that they don't advertise them in such a way as to make people think they'll get it forever.
In fact, here's one from Comcast.
»www.comcastoffers.com/1/?cid=53069
When you combine the 19.99 month pricing plus the 75.00 cash back plus free modem, this is in fact a much better deal than even the much lower speed DSL providers would offer.
The problem here is with the Telco industry and the fact that they've advertised these very low rate specials in such a way and so intensively that people now think that's their regular pricing..when it's not.
3MB dsl service for 39.99, which the price will go up to after the promo ends, is not competitive with 6MB and higher speeds from comcast for the mid 40.00 range.
And, 30.00 384k to 1500k dsl speeds which the lower tier dsl packages will go to is hardly competitive with that either.
This pricing scheme is the kinds of tricks the DSL industry has had to resort to to try to win customers.
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BetaTron
Sinz
Premium
join:2002-08-18
Brooklyn, NY | reply to wjr110
Re: "500Mb/s" ?
I think what he meant was 1.2 megabits to 500 kilobits. |
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kd6cae
P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Lancaster, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| bring higher upload to Riverside California!
As one of the unfortunate west coast Charter users, I haven't even received any kind of speed upgrade whatsoever. I'd love to see even 5/512 and for those of you on 10/1, I think I will kill you now, lol. this crap upload of 256kbps is for cave men, so Charter in Riverside CA, get your act together and upgrade your speeds or I'll just have to spend my precious dollars on a local phone line just so I can get real upload speed. Thanks for listening to my rant, and caring so much about it, yeah right!!! |
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jriskin
join:2001-10-11
Topanga, CA
·Verizon FIOS
| reply to BetaTron
Re: "500Mb/s" ?
First response was right....
He must mean it was jumping from 1.2Megabytes/sec to 500Kilobytes/sec. aka 500K/sec to 1200k/sec...
Its weird most Apple trailers give me full bandwidth (15MBit FIOS) which is 1.875Megabytes/sec which is enough to watch the full HD 1080i trailers in real time (they are roughly 9-12megabit). But some of them are on different servers that max out around 300-600kilobytes/sec...
My guess is the smaller independent films don't get the higher bandwidth. |
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wjr110
join:2005-02-23
North Salem, NY | Do you get the full 15 megabits download? I have OOL and I get 12-13 mbits download out of the 15 that is advertised. |
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pb5k
more cowbell
Premium
join:2005-11-16
Glendale, AZ
·Cox HSI
| reply to Rick
Re: step in the right direction
3MB dsl service for 39.99, which the price will go up to after the promo ends, is not competitive with 6MB and higher speeds from comcast for the mid 40.00 range.
And, 30.00 384k to 1500k dsl speeds which the lower tier dsl packages will go to is hardly competitive with that either.
This pricing scheme is the kinds of tricks the DSL industry has had to resort to to try to win customers.
I can't speak for other providers, but verizon's yearly contract isn't a limited promo. You can renew your contract and keep the $30/month rate if you like. I don't see anything tricky about that, just call them and let them know you want the contract rate instead of month-to-month.
The raw connection speed (while important) isn't the deciding factor for my broadband anyway, it's the price to performance ratio. And in my area, DSL is superior in that respect. ($30 for 3000/768 DSL, or $55 for 3000/256 cable.) Sure there's a 5 meg cable tier, but I have no need for that kind of speed and it's double the price I'm paying now.
The cable co's are free to offer 10 meg service if they like, but if they charge too much they aren't going to have any takers. |
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