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| | | | Re: Great :( 1+acre lots and 2.53 miles from end of plant to be exact.The town center and surrounding area has Comcast and you would be hard pressed to find anyone that has Windstream.The fastest they offer in town is 3/6/12 while Comcast offers 16/22/50/105. No contest really. | |
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| | | | | Re: Great :( I'm sure I could find people that would be willing to pay more for internet than not have a cap.
And your problem is the lots are too big for Comcast to even thing about. So they'd be spending MORE than what their ROI would be unless the people that lived there decided to pay for it.
Also it's not Comcast's problem for not servicing you; its your problem on moving into an area that doesn't offer anything but one wireline provider. And if the prices are too high- find an Indie provider. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Great :( I never said it ways Comcast problem. Paying 105.00 for 2- 6Mbs connections when Comcast offers 105 Mbps for same price in a bundle less than 3 miles a way will make you complain a tad . | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Great :( not really. and i never said you said that about Comcast. Wind is charging what the market will bare and they're able to do that. If you want a choice for Internet then I suggest you move; or one better; should have NEVER moved there to start off with knowing that you could only get one wireline option for Internet. Sounds like you're just complaining because you made the mistake of moving into a home that only has one option and want people to feel sorry for you due to the rate hike and higher prices. So if you want options, easy to do that is move. It's a buyers market so homes and be had on the cheap. | |
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| | | | | | | | Re: Great :( I don't mind increased prices as long if there is value. There is no increased value in the current price increase for folks in my area. Prices go up, that is nature of business put usually you get something out of it. | |
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|  IowaManPremium
join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | Re: With prices like this... I dumped them and went with Mediacom 12/1 for $45.95
Less lag too.
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| | | | Re: With prices like this... U had to sign 2 year contract though didn't you? And you probably got bundle or dont include active line charge. In my area , mediacom charges whooping $70 for standalone 12/1 Internet for month-to-month agreement. | |
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join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | Re: With prices like this... No Contract,
Standard 12/1 with TV package (2-78+ Starz with HD) | |
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| Re: With prices like this... What's your competition in your town. Here in Dubuque they push u for contract because they know they have no alternatives. Centurylink only offers 1.5/3/6, directv is out of game for tv since majority of housing are apartment rentals and landlords prohibit dish installs. For cellular connections, only AT&T has fastest connection as 3G 7.2 max and LTE is light years away. | |
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join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | Re: With prices like this... I have Windstrem in Grinnell
3/6 and 12 at 768 k upload.
Dish Network and Direct TV are allowed depending on the apartment building.
U.S Cellular has 4g in testing
I pay ~100 a/month for a year | |
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join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | Re: With prices like this... When all said and done ~$140 | |
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| | | | | | | | Re: With prices like this... When u rent and have no balcony or patio, it's difficult to skip landlord on restrictions.
Fortunately there is Netflix, hulu, amazon vod, redbox and its all cheaper than cable. | |
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join:2005-12-18
Milledgeville, GA
 ·Windstream
| Higher speed impossible Where I live, I'm doomed to 3 mb speed forever. They say the neighborhood's wiring is too old to support anything faster. I've been on 3 meg for 8-9 years. They've made it clear they don't plan to invest in network improvements.
Charter is the other game in town. They have spent the past few years investing in their infrastructure and speeds have increased steadily, up to 60 meg or more. I've used their business service for over a year and I'm very pleased with it. If they would allow a self-install I would move my home voice & internet to them tomorrow. I find it crazy that they require a service call to plug a modem into an outlet and connect a cable to it. I don't think I would have any trouble getting the two wires to the right spots.
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| Re: Higher speed impossible Yeah, a 20% price hike for the same service really sucks. At least you have an option. Windstream *is* the cable company in this area, so no cable internet is offered even if the cable came as far as my neighborhood. The WS remote terminal that serves me is barely close enough to support 3Mb, and requires cutting my upstream bandwidth in half to keep it stable.
My only other broadband option is satellite, which is even more expensive and capped. I'm hoping that maybe WS can offer bonded DSL sometime this year to bump me up to 6 Mb or more. But I'm not holding my breath.
IMO, rather than giving gov't stimulus money to the incumbents to milk a bit more out of the legacy copper that has been in place for decades, this country needs to promote something like EMCs for fiber broadband - regulated, non-profit, and focused only on the connection, allowing multiple service providers to compete for the customers attached to those lines. I'm not holding my breath on that one either. | |
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join:2005-12-18
Milledgeville, GA Reviews:
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| Re: Higher speed impossible When signing up for DSL service, you can get the modem by mail and never see a technician. I received my Cisco 678 in the mail, called to set up a login and password, and I haven't touched anything else since 2001. It may be slow but it has been reliable.
It makes more sense to roll a truck when a problem is reported than to roll a truck to every new subscriber. It's a better use of resources to go where the problems are rather than where they might be. I already have Charter cable at home and my HD receiver's stats are all very good so I have no reason to think there may be problems with cable modem speeds.
When Charter installed my business voice system, the installer split off the cable feed, plugged in the unit's AC line, and said "The rest is up to you." Yep, he did a lot of work! I'm at work during all of their "appointment windows" and really can't be sitting around waiting for someone to show up and perform such a basic act to get home internet service. If they trusted me to plug it into the wall and connect phone & LAN cables, they'd have a new customer.
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join:2003-05-19
San Luis Obispo, CA | Re: Higher speed impossible Sad part is Charter thinks all their customers have an IQ of 100 or less. Had a tech(sub-contractor, mind you) that "HAD" to install my current HD-DVR. Needless to say, he didn't install it correctly due to my older at the time HDTV(didn't know the difference between component and composite video cabling nor what a DVI input was). Ended up politely saying "yep, looks great" just to get him out of my house so I could spend time doing the correct hook up of the video/audio cables. Strangely enough, I can do cable internet self- install.  | |
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join:2007-04-25
Swanton, OH Reviews:
·Windstream
| No more "Price for life" What I find interesting that even with the price increase, the cost of 6MB DSL and phone is $10 less than the price I am now paying with the "price for life" promotion I signed up for about 2 years ago. To lower my cost, I'd have to give up the guaranteed price. The same would happen if I wanted to add TV or go from 6 to 12 MB, neither of which is going to happen. Oh well...I'm still paying less than Time Warner would charge. | |
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