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ISP Poll, which is your ISP?
AOL 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
AT&T 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Charter 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Centuryclink 7%  7%  [ 1 ]
Comcast 29%  29%  [ 4 ]
Dish Network 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Earthlink 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Frontier 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Google Fiber 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Hughes 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
NetZero 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Panix 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Stealth Communications 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Telesphere 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Time Warner 7%  7%  [ 1 ]
Wave Broadband 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
other ISP not listed 57%  57%  [ 8 ]
Total votes : 14

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28 May 2016, 3:44 pm

anybody got any gripes about their ISP? here is the place to gripe about such. centurylint sucks big wind :roll: service outages are a regular occurrence and they charge more for less internet speed than many competitors I've found. I have to pay 46 buck$ a month for [often] less than 1 meg DL speed. but i'm stuck with 'em as I live in a monopoly area, they are the only ones here. anybody else in a similar situation with their unsatisfactory ISP?



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28 May 2016, 4:02 pm

Comcast but I am in a city where Google is setting up fiber optics and I am switching over as soon as Google sets everything up.

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28 May 2016, 4:33 pm

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Comcast but I am in a city where Google is setting up fiber optics and I am switching over as soon as Google sets everything up.

Also this
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how much do they charge for that service, per month?



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28 May 2016, 4:52 pm

auntblabby wrote:
dcj123 wrote:
Comcast but I am in a city where Google is setting up fiber optics and I am switching over as soon as Google sets everything up.

Also this
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how much do they charge for that service, per month?


$84.25

Its actually suppose to be $60 but Comcast is the worse company in the world and I don't recommend them and I hate them with a passion. They always raise my bill and they are impossible to get a hold of, I have to call them up and threaten to cancel every six months to keep my bill under $100. Google is 10x faster and they have already offered me $60 a month and I have agreed, just waiting for installation in my building.

I am good up to around $80, anymore and I'll switch and honestly your best bet with ISPs is to switch regularly anyway. Comcast will usually offer you a deal at first so take it and then go to AT&T or whoever for whatever deal they have and then back to Comcast. This is the best method I have found for fighting the cable company, always go where the deal is and as soon as they start that price gouging don't just threaten to leave, actually leave. You do that enough times and they will start to value you as a customer or at least pretend to care because they know your cancel their services for real if they don't treat you fairly.

I don't mess around with cable companies, charge me fairly or I am gone is what I say.



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28 May 2016, 5:22 pm

^^^ :o wow :o you pay twice what I pay but get 90+ times the throughput. I don't think I could even afford $46 per month for much longer, much less $80.



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28 May 2016, 7:10 pm

Rogers :(



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28 May 2016, 8:46 pm

^^^ ok, if you don't mind, how much does rogers charge you per month for your service?



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28 May 2016, 9:39 pm

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^^^ ok, if you don't mind, how much does rogers charge you per month for your service?

$191 for tv, phone and internet. Our internet package is 60Mbps down and 11.5 up with 320GB data cap.



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28 May 2016, 9:44 pm

Noca wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
^^^ ok, if you don't mind, how much does rogers charge you per month for your service?

$191 for tv, phone and internet. Our internet package is 60Mbps down and 11.5 up with 320GB data cap.

wow. no way could I afford that. :o it is looking like I will have to drop my internet and use the library.



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29 May 2016, 11:11 am

auntblabby wrote:
Noca wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
^^^ ok, if you don't mind, how much does rogers charge you per month for your service?

$191 for tv, phone and internet. Our internet package is 60Mbps down and 11.5 up with 320GB data cap.

wow. no way could I afford that. :o it is looking like I will have to drop my internet and use the library.

The nick name for Rogers is "Robbers". When I mentioned phone, I was talking about a house phone too, not our cellphones. Those are on top of that price, but thankfully not with Rogers.



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29 May 2016, 12:32 pm

Cox Communications

meh, it's okay

they haven't tried to literally rob me like the Nazis at Time Warner, never again



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29 May 2016, 12:55 pm

cox, eh? :scratch: I woulda added them to the poll choices but wiki said they were superceded by some other company. I guess somebody'll have to correct that wiki page. am beginning to see that centurylint is not quite as bad as some other companies. they all are highway robbery AFAIC, to a variable extent. and why do we americans let them get away with it and not demand en masse, something better?



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29 May 2016, 1:01 pm

These cable companies are all merging it is very confusing, I think Charter was trying to merge with Cox but now are trying to buy out Time Warner. Crazy monopolies like this are allowed to exist in this country.



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29 May 2016, 1:04 pm

and we sheeple let it happen.



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29 May 2016, 1:17 pm

guillotines bro, guillotines is what we need :wink:



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29 May 2016, 1:19 pm

and the unstoppable WILL to USE them.