rupst2
join:2003-01-07
 ·CenturyLink
·AT&T Southwest
| Centurytel pricing and outage issues
Ok, 2 months in on 10mb PURE dsl and its time to switch to the dreaded mediacomm.
Service activation, had to wait extra 2 days for dsl signal to actually be present at my location (gave 3 weeks advance notice)
Bill = $6.46 month in taxes and fees? Just because I have a dial tone, and technically a number, doesn't mean I want to pay for 911, deaf relay, taxes, etc. I had ATT dry dsl before. It was $35/mo, no taxes or fees. No dial tone.
So 10mb for 53.95/mo equals $60.41
Mediacom is giving me 12mb/1mb for $30 a month(yes I realize there is $3 in taxes on it as well). I love dsl but I'd be stupid to keep it at this point. Oh, and my dsl signal was out again yesterday. That's twice in two months. I had twice in 5 years with ATT. I have an 8' home run line directly to modem. No other wiring connected to the NID in my house. Pretty sad really.  |
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slappy white
join:2008-06-16
La Crosse, WI
| said by rupst2  :I had ATT dry dsl before. It was $35/mo You have to compare apples to apples. Your $35 @ AT&T probably got you maybe 3M. You were paying for 10M @ CenturyTel
said by rupst2 :Mediacom is giving me 12mb/1mb for $30 a month Nice promotion price. What do you do when the price balloons to the standard price of $62.95 after the 6 month promo is over? |
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rupst2
join:2003-01-07
·CenturyLink
·AT&T Southwest
| said by slappy white :said by rupst2 :I had ATT dry dsl before. It was $35/mo You have to compare apples to apples. Your $35 @ AT&T probably got you maybe 3M. You were paying for 10M @ CenturyTel said by rupst2 :Mediacom is giving me 12mb/1mb for $30 a month Nice promotion price. What do you do when the price balloons to the standard price of $62.95 after the 6 month promo is over? I had 6mb/768k and it was reliably so. I'll give mediacom 6 months of saving me $150 and then decided to pay the same as dsl, switch back to dsl, or play the promotions game.  |
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slappy white
join:2008-06-16
La Crosse, WI | Good luck. I would prefer to play Mediacom against CenturyTel and see if you can't get a current promo price from CTel and drop your price that way.
I am not a fan of jumping back and forth between providers. That's me though. |
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rupst2
join:2003-01-07 | reply to rupst2
I agree. I tried that. They won't budge. Trust me, I'm pro-dsl, but it just doesn't make service/price sense to stay with it. |
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rupst2
join:2003-01-07 | reply to rupst2
Very satisfied with my cable. Less latency, more upload, very consistant pings. It was noticible while gaming for sure. I'm lucky..for now. |
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ctel0909
@centurytel.com | Yes, for now.  |
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