cable and internet

[forgotten_aria]

comcast is charging us too much for our cable. They also want to force us to use digital boxes, which would make our (almost first generation) replay box unhappy. (I think we have and IR blaster, but I'm not really sure if it all would work.

Does anyone have any recent stories about their cable modem net or know of a really nice deal? I'm almost thinking of canceling the cable outright and getting everything from netflix and on line.

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[pekmez.livejournal.com]

We cancelled cable TV a while ago. Comcast used to give us a reasonable price for only internet and phone services, and then they got rid of that bundle offer.
I told them that on principle I was not willign to buy a TV-net-phone bundle even if it was cheaper than the a la carte price fo just net and phone, but that if they couldn't compete with anyone *else* for net and phone we would go elsewhere.

So ~1 year ago we switched to verizon for voice and DSL. We did have to add a phone jack to our office first. Verizon for those 2 services including caller ID on the phone, which we wanted, is price competitive with what we'd been paying comcast then. We deemed verizon's DSL to be adequate vs what comcast's cable net cost. Performance has been ok since then. Verizon had an initial spate of calls to try to sell us more services once we signed up, and we had to keep telling them to stop calling to offer us new crap. (however, the other idea was that then we'd have less switching to do if Verizon ever ran fios to Somerville... so that particular new crap, yes, PLEASE sell that to us. ;-)


I'm thinking of cancelling netflix too, we don't really use it enough.