Need some help with choosing TV/internet service!

PLease help me! I am so sick of Time Warner cable, I pay to much money and there is always something annoying me about their service ! If it's not volume spikes or the slow arse guide, or the insane amount of time it takes for the system to reboot in the middle of a favorite show, or the fact that I pay way to much money for a bunch of channels I don't watch !!!!!!! Not to mention the internet service is slow, sometimes non existent, and to expensive! FOr being a customer for 15 years, you would think you deserve a little more respect, but no....they just occasionally raise your bill $10 without saying anything and then offer these packages for new accounts only up to 50 dollars lower!
Basically I wanted some advice on what other people have for TV/internet service. Just looking for basic package, I already have a lot of internet sites for movies, but was thinking NetFlix would be cool........

I will say I also have Time warner... GO in person to your LOCAL office... You have a much better shot at getting a package or sale rate than over the phone. I am about to get rid of the cable and just pay for internet thru them. Hulu and the networks themselves give me enough tv and movies. I will tell you, to keep the standard high speed as the basic and lite often will not play movies or tv well if at all... I had gotten a deal for cable and the lite and HATED it ...

I have had satellite NEVER again... DSL was okay but I like the cable( less outages)

We just dropped Time Warner Cable and Internet for Directv and Clear Internet http://www.clear.com/. Can't say I regret leaving Time Warner at all.

My cousin has DirecTV and whenever there's a storm the picture is baaaaad in the extreme. Like 1 percent visibility at best.

I too don't like how Time Warner raises the price automatically but I'm too frightened seeing those FiOS commercials. For some reason, I believe them. The funny one is the young FiOS guy (faux FiOS guy) and his mother going door-to-door and the mother completely wrecks the faux guy's sales pitch because "honey, the truth is important"

Just my humble opinion, but perhaps if Verizon would stick to what they know best - phones - then there wouldn't be so many complaints about them. My gut says the CEO felt "Well, we'll be damned to silently sit by and not get our slice of the TV/internet service pie."

I use my cable provider which is called in this area Cablevision. I've had it for many, many years and I'm fine with it, hope you find a good one too.

I use DSL from Verizon as my ISP.

"the truth is important"

I hate that commercial and mute it or change the channel whenever it comes on which is a lot, lol. I would like to slap that woman.

We have no cable TV/Dish etc.... Alas being in the "country" no DSL either-the AT&T tech just laughed when I asked him last year when I could get it!! So I exist in the land of dial-up internet. My cellphone provider offers high speed interest but the closet tower (two miles away) isn't equipped with the needed equipment.

Lucky us....

We have Verizon, and aside from the price hikes, their service sounds about the same... except instead of volume spikes, we get what I call video stuttering, where the signal pops noisily in and out for several seconds.

I don't know which side's grass is greener. Maybe the technology is still new enough that they haven't got it working right yet -- and they're so focused on building up their customer networks that they don't much care whether it works or not.

Just like when the internet was new and AOL was burying us all in free AOL disks rather than making their blasted system actually function!

For TV we used Direct TV....It was awesome we only had one outtage and that was when the power was knocked out. The tech guy that installed it for us said that if we put a little RainX (windshield washing fluid on it) everyonce in a while it would help during snow storms and really bad rain storms to keep it from going out and it worked. We only had it go out that one time and that was from the power going out. I would keep them but our bill was going to go up to 80 bucks a month so when push came to shove and we needed to cut out unnessecary bills TV was one of the ones going.

For my internet I have a BlackBerry and I pay 30 a month for the internet and email service and another 30 for the ability to toggle it to my computer. With cutting out the 65 I was spending on dial up and a house phone plus the 80 a mth for TV I actually end up saving 85 bucks a month without all that stuff. So if BF and I want to catch up on shows we missed or new stuff coming on we just go to the shows website and watch it or HULU works really well for older stuff we want to watch. But mostly we just borrow DVDs from friends and family if we feel like vegetating in front of the couch. Right now we are watching Supernatural seasons 1-4.

Originally Posted by 3CatsN1Dog

For TV we used Direct TV....It was awesome we only had one outtage and that was when the power was knocked out. The tech guy that installed it for us said that if we put a little RainX (windshield washing fluid on it) everyonce in a while it would help during snow storms and really bad rain storms to keep it from going out and it worked. We only had it go out that one time and that was from the power going out. I would keep them but our bill was going to go up to 80 bucks a month so when push came to shove and we needed to cut out unnessecary bills TV was one of the ones going.

For my internet I have a BlackBerry and I pay 30 a month for the internet and email service and another 30 for the ability to toggle it to my computer. With cutting out the 65 I was spending on dial up and a house phone plus the 80 a mth for TV I actually end up saving 85 bucks a month without all that stuff. So if BF and I want to catch up on shows we missed or new stuff coming on we just go to the shows website and watch it or HULU works really well for older stuff we want to watch. But mostly we just borrow DVDs from friends and family if we feel like vegetating in front of the couch. Right now we are watching Supernatural seasons 1-4.

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Do you pay monthly for the toggle from phone to puter? or is it a one time buy this attachment?

Make sure if you switch to DSL you're close to the CO and not at the end of the line.

My grandparents have ATT and are at the end of the line and get about 1/15th of the speed they actually pay for. I've told them they should cancel it but it's their best option. I recommend cable internet... as someone said it's less prone to outages and you don't have to be close to get a good speed.

Originally Posted by atinsley

Make sure if you switch to DSL you're close to the CO and not at the end of the line.

My grandparents have ATT and are at the end of the line and get about 1/15th of the speed they actually pay for. I've told them they should cancel it but it's their best option. I recommend cable internet... as someone said it's less prone to outages and you don't have to be close to get a good speed.

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What's CO?

Originally Posted by LaRussa

"the truth is important"

I hate that commercial and mute it or change the channel whenever it comes on which is a lot, lol. I would like to slap that woman.

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Why slap? If I were the Verizon CEO and I saw that commercial I would be super p+ issed

LOL - I like when sneaky stuff gets exposed I guess.

However I must say Verizon is my cellphone provider and they do a good job

Originally Posted by sharky

Do you pay monthly for the toggle from phone to puter? or is it a one time buy this attachment?

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Basically how it was explained to me by the cell phone tech person is that I pay the 30 for internet and email on my blackberry alone (its required to have a blackberry or "smart phone" device likes Driods too) and I had an option to basically get Verizons highest speed internet available on my computer for an extra 30 bucks a month. I had priced Verizon before to get DSL out here and it was 70 bucks a month (without a landline) and 85 a mth (with a land line) and that didnt include my equipment or installation.

I basically pay 70 bucks a mth to have my phone, 30 for internet and 30 for toggle usage (5GB p/mth) and 10 bucks to just have my phone. Its saved me quite a bit of money considering all the fees and extra stuff I would have been paying for and the fact that out in the boonies where I live I wouldnt have gotten high speed internet without using my phone. If I had a laptop I would be able to hook my phone up anywhere it got service and use the internet off it. Personally it works great for me. I save money and I can watch TV off my comp and I get amazing cell service thru Verizon so I get amazing internet service. Eventually Im hoping that Verizon comes out with a new service plan that includes internet/email and toggle service right in a plan instead of having to buy it seperately because eventually regular cell phones will be out and everyone will have to have smart phones....


Also I just checked my data usage, Ive had the toggle turned on since January 7th and I have only used 1GB of the service and thats on basic web surfing and watching tv shows and stuff like that.