Internet providers switching back again, etc.

[cookiedough]

Yah,  finally it looks like our local internet provider who for the past near 3 years has been screwing over their loyal customers in this town finally upgraded to 'true' high speed internet and people are getting it finally for the past week anyways.  We all in this town and other surrounding small communities were paying for 5-15 megs of service ONLY receiving at most 1 meg of service for well over 2 years now due to overcapacity issues and poor eqmt/servers not upgrading in this one hick town.

My neighbor reports for 1 week now his service he has been paying all along is now averaging over 12 megs of service suppose to be tops 15 megs vs. the 1 meg the past 2+ years paying for 15 megs. 

I finally switched to Hughesnet satellite 5 months ago paying 90 per month since could not take any longer dial up speed most times,  but if I switch back,  a 300 dollar cancellation fee with Hughesnet but then I qualify for new customer rate saving over 1200 bucks over 2 years vs. hughesnet rates locked in rate for 2 years as well with old internet provider who finally got their act together.

About time!   Just like car insurance,  gotta keep looking to get the best rate/deal to afford to live comfortably within our means.    A 1200 dollar savings over 2 years is a lot of dough saved just on internet alone just like when I keep switching back and forth every 2 year committment with dish/directtv saving over 360 bucks in savings the first year of a 2 year contract committment.   I think if I did not have kids and didn't watch a ton of TV,   I'd be dropping dish/directtv satellite TV all together since for the 2nd year I pay over 100 bucks for TV satellite service per month.  That is a lot of gas money for the Valk to go riding with per month.     I probably should check to see what Hulu is all about or other means of watching TV since the days of paying 30-50 bucks per month for TV are almost long gone.  Even cable TV in our area is over 50 bucks per month when some 15 years or so ago it was only 30 bucks per month since we had cable TV way back then.  I only watch a handful of the 200+ satellite lineups stations and they always repeat the same show for weeks but in order to get a few stations I do watch, you have to get their upgraded, more expensive packages.

I'll give it 1-2 more weeks and check with others in our town including the village clerk's office who have the local internet provider to make sure the speed has stayed consistent over 10 megs of speed since would hate to switch back so soon since their speeds have been upgraded for only 1 week now and find out is a fluke and drops back down to 1 meg while having to pay a 300 dollar cancellation fee with Hughesnet satellite internet. 

That 1200 dollar plus savings could be used to help pay for this time next year's college tuition of our now senior H.S. daughter with college tuition, etc. costing 16K per 2 semesters - YIKES.     I hope I don't have to sell the Valk as well or fishing boat or 2 ATV's ?     When I went to college for 2 full years way back in the early 1990's, it was only about 4-5K per 2 semesters, now well over double/triple that if not  tons more in some specialty colleges.   Somehow I don't think most pay scales have tripled in the past 20+ years as college tuition has done?   

[old2soon]

Just wait til you go to CANCEL hughes net!  PLEASE let me know HOW that goes. I'll relay my experience to you AFTER you drop them.  I didn't have any prior warnings when I dropped them!  RIDE SAFE.

[Jess Tolbirt]

i had no problem canceling hughs net,, i just kept saying cancel me and finally after about 2 hours on the phone i was canceled..

[Wizzard]

once I got  fast internet got a amazon firestick and I get all the TV I need for the price of Amazon prime

[Patrick]

The most hated company [ by some poll] was/is Time Warner and I'm one that completely agrees with that. I hate that company, to me they are just a necessary evil because I refuse to hang a dish on the house.
My monthly bill with TWC runs $250/mo and the internet speed was usually so friggin' slow that Netflix wouldn't work. I just kept after them, they really pi$$ed me off. I was paying 20 things of download and usually had low single digits that kept causing Netflix to kick off and reload. Enough bitching finally got their attention, they 'gave' me 30 things of download speed which is still usually actually in the low double digits, but thats fast enough to keep me satisfied and run my stuff.
Every issue with TWC takes at least 3 visits to correct a problem. The repair men don't even come in the house with one cable box anymore, they carry at least 2. Their equipment is junk and they are the first to admit it.
I called the help line a short time ago and they said they were going to bill me if I asked a question as it was their new policy. I told them where to go and said I was finally going to hang a dish on the house and hung up. There were 2 trucks at my house first thing the next morning and they actually fixed things on the first try including running in a new service line.

I was brought up in a business where service was drummed into our heads. What has happened now I find unacceptable. Sorry for the rant, but, this winds me up.

[Jess Tolbirt]

The most hated company [ by some poll] was/is Time Warner and I'm one that completely agrees with that. I hate that company, to me they are just a necessary evil because I refuse to hang a dish on the house.
My monthly bill with TWC runs $250/mo and the internet speed was usually so friggin' slow that Netflix wouldn't work. I just kept after them, they really pi$$ed me off. I was paying 20 things of download and usually had low single digits that kept causing Netflix to kick off and reload. Enough bitching finally got their attention, they 'gave' me 30 things of download speed which is still usually actually in the low double digits, but thats fast enough to keep me satisfied and run my stuff.
Every issue with TWC takes at least 3 visits to correct a problem. The repair men don't even come in the house with one cable box anymore, they carry at least 2. Their equipment is junk and they are the first to admit it.
I called the help line a short time ago and they said they were going to bill me if I asked a question as it was their new policy. I told them where to go and said I was finally going to hang a dish on the house and hung up. There were 2 trucks at my house first thing the next morning and they actually fixed things on the first try including running in a new service line.

I was brought up in a business where service was drummed into our heads. What has happened now I find unacceptable. Sorry for the rant, but, this winds me up.

you don't have to hang the dish on the house,, put it on a pole,,

[cookiedough]

Yah,  I have my dish/directtv pole mounted alongside house as well as hughesnet satellite on a larger pole both concreted into the ground.  The few times per winter I have to brush off the snow on the dishes, makes it well worth not attempting to climb onto 1-2 feet of snow on the roof to get at the mounts they drill into the roof.  Both companies charge NO fee with the right installer that is for pole mount vs. roof/siding mount. 

Going to call today and find out the cancellation fee for sure with hughesnet.  I hear it is 400 bucks but 15 dollar credit every month after 3rd month so should be around 350 bucks.  I am new customer again hoping with TDS internet (will call to make sure) like I had before so saving 25 bucks per month times locked in new customer rate for 24 months so that 600 dollar savings in 24 months along with each month it being around 50 bucks vs. hughesent 90 also saves me 40 bucks every 24 months as well another 960 bucks so is worth paying say 350 cancellation fee vs. saving over 1500 bucks in first 2 years.    Yah,  90 bucks for hughesnet just for internet is very high per month, but basically vastly slow internet way too slow with TDS was not cutting it for us and this spring had enough of TDS after a few years. 

My neighbor has been monitoring his TDS FINALLY fast speed and has been 8-12 megs consistently for 2 weeks now vs. the past 2-3 years with TDS internet was averaging only 1 meg of service not adequate in most homes, some days 1/2 a meg, others 1.5 megs at most.  You need at least 2 megs of speed to successfully run netflix without buffering and if have 2-3 users on the internet like we do,  3 megs is recommended. 

Still pisses me off though since TDS (telephone data systems) reps on phone higher up even  as well as a local TDS repairman in town I talked to this spring told me nothing in the works to upgrade our shitty eqmt. in town until spring of 2016.  I guess TDS finally got enough poor Better Business Bureau complaints to them like I have done as well as 1,000's of phone calls am sure from local residents to cough up the dough and do what is right.  They have robbed 1,000's of paying customers for high speed internet paying for well over 2 years now just getting basically dial up speed.