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Willwillbee
Member
09-20-2001
| Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 12:59 am
I have to cut my monthly expenses. I am currently paying $110 per month for cable TV ($50), phone ($40) & dial up internet ($20). I personally vote for giving up telephone instead but it is required for my current internet connection (which I won't give up). So basically, I am paying $60 a month for dial up. I'm thinking that for $60 a month I should be able to have cable internet & VOIP (phone). Without TV cable, I will want to download TV episodes & movies off the net. Amazon.com lists the time to download a 2 hour movie with DSL (1.5mpbs) at 60 min but only 5 min for cable (3mpbs) (they also list 6mpbs cable at 2.5 min). That is a huge difference and makes no sense. Road runner offers 3 different speeds 5mpbs, 3mpbs & 768kpbs - they are either very secretive about the rates or my browser is incompatible. I need to go for the cheapest but still need to have a sufficient speed to support VOIP & have the ability to download movies. Any suggestions?
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 1:13 am
Keep in mind that you will have a transfer limit and it doesn't take long to use that up when downloading movies. I have 10G a month but I pay extra for that on cable. I think the lowest one is 1G and the standard one is 3G. A one hour tv show is about 360,000mb to download so a two hour movie would be at least 700,000mg. 4 movies would pretty much use up a 3G limit and then if you watch youtube or use a chat program, send pics by email, etc. it all adds up fast. I go over the 10G about half the time. It might be cheaper to get your movies from Netflix or Block Buster. Mine is part of a package but the breakdown is $40 for 3G cable connection and then I pay $10 more to increase it to 10G. Last month I went over by 9G because someone was bootlegging my wireless connection and it was an additional $40 for that.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 5:33 am
Comcast has a package if you bundle TV, phone and internet it's $33/each or $99..that would be a little break. I know they also bundle internet and phone too for a price break.
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Willwillbee
Member
09-20-2001
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 3:42 am
Thank you, Chiliwilli, I knew nothing about caps but apparently Road runner does cap at 15gig per month and Earthlink doesn't have a cap, so will go with them. Netflix allows unlimited downloads with their $17 month package. Earthlink has 2 packages 768Kbps or 5Mbps - Do I need the speed?
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 10:20 pm
I don't know about the speed. How fast do you want the downloads? My priority is the caps. Even when I asked about an Unlimited account they said that still didn't mean there was no limit. There should be someplace where you can check your usage and keep up with it. Mine is always 2 or 3 days behind the times so I have to pretty much keep up with mine myself.
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