Keep your eye on Xfinity/Comcast internet

[Cropduster172]

We've got Xfinity in our primary home... internet, TV, phone(landline). I know it's costing us $360/ month or so for their top tier package with Netflix and Max, etc...my wife likes the ease of use and convenience.
Have Xfinity Internet at our beach house but I dropped the TV and phone last year and went with their 800mbps which was $78/month vs $335/month with what their old Triple Play increased to over the years after starting out at $99/month.
I added in FUBO so we could watch the Eagles... absolute necessity...$85/month now.
But the 800mbps internet jumped from $78-$111/month in February.
I changed the plan to 400mbps and brought it back down to $78/month.
400mbps is plenty for 2-3 people with phones, tablets, a Nest thermostat, 1 PC and 1-2 TVs. I don't get how they're thinking raising prices and non-existent customer service while losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers is a viable business plan.
Perhaps when they had a monopoly on internet but those days are over with T-Mobile and Verizon 5G.

 

[jayjr1105]

Comcast will rake you over the coals if you have nowhere else to go. Switched to fiber 2 years ago and they didn't even try to keep me as a customer. I have a buddy that is using fiber in his neighborhood to keep his comcast bill at like $30 for 300/20.

 

[Lockasiam]

With local REMC's increasingly offering pretty fast fibre in more and more places, I'm sure Comcast is well aware they're gonna be out within the next decade. At my old house (When i was a child) my mom said the only availabile thing was comcast and it was horrible. Once 9* put their cables in then that was the end of comcast in that area. Now with my REMC putting in fibre here the Frontier monopoly is collapsing finally. Only thing worse than comcast

 

[Pablo]

How much for just for their internet ONLY?

Get that, then a streaming device of your choice and a la cart streaming

Get rid of landline.

Gotta be cheaper.

 

[Cropduster172]

How much for just for their internet ONLY?

Get that, then a streaming device of your choice and a la cart streaming

Get rid of landline.

Gotta be cheaper.

I'm not complaining about the primary home cost. I know what we're getting and aware of why we're paying what we do.
Got rid of the landline and have a Roku TV at the beach house and the Internet only jumped in price from $78/month for the 800mbps to $111/month. That's why I dropped it down to 400mbps to keep it at $78. I have auto pay for a whopping $2/month discount so I don't really pay attention and the payment notification and billing information goes through the beach house email address that I online occasionally look at. I might investigate Verizon 5G.
My daughter and SIL have it in their place which is 2 blocks away.

 

[Pablo]

I'm not complaining about the primary home cost. I know what we're getting and aware of why we're paying what we do.
Got rid of the landline and have a Roku TV at the beach house and the Internet only jumped in price from $78/month for the 800mbps to $111/month. That's why I dropped it down to 400mbps to keep it at $78. I have auto pay for a whopping $2/month discount so I don't really pay attention and the payment notification and billing information goes through the beach house email address that I online occasionally look at. I might investigate Verizon 5G.
My daughter and SIL have it in their place which is 2 blocks away.

Top speed from Wave (here ~1G+) is $49/mo. We use a Roku as well. Which is a gripe in my book about spurious issues, memory and non-robust remotes.

Our weakness is forgetting to stop some of the streaming channels during "off seasons" but it really is the future promised in 1985 regarding a la carte (via cable, which NEVER was a thing)

 

[CarLuver]

if you are not on a 1 year contract then they can hike it when they want . you should call them and ask for the best price or if you ahve a physical store then go there .

i been playing this game for years . every feb when my contract expires i call them and they give me a better price . i have no issue with a one year contract because internet is a necessity these days and one year go fast . i pay $50 a month for 600 mps interent

 

[Cropduster172]

if you are not on a 1 year contract then they can hike it when they want . you should call them and ask for the best price or if you ahve a physical store then go there .

i been playing this game for years . every feb when my contract expires i call them and they give me a better price . i have no issue with a one year contract because internet is a necessity these days and one year go fast . i pay $50 a month for 600 mps interent

The other issue that has folks leaving in droves is that current customers can never get the same discounted pricing as nre customers. I believe they're going to have to implement some major changes and far more flexibility in pricing soon. Seems Spectrum is in a worse position.

 

[Lawnman23]

So glad more and more fiber is getting rolled out in regions. Was stuck with Comcast for years until Quantum/CenturyLink/Lumen ran fiber in my city. Thoroughly enjoyed being able to call Xfinity up and telling them to get 'effed.

Now have synchronous 1Gig up/down, no data caps and a price for life of $75 a month, with the option of going up to 8Gig up/down. Love it.

 

[JMJNet]

I have just internet with Spectrum here in the suburb of Dallas TX.
It is $60 a month for 400 MBps service, unfortunately upstream is only around 20 MBps.
Then I have Amazon Prime using Amazon TV for whatever Prime charge for a year.
I hooked up the TV to an old rabit ear antenna for OTA channels.

To get the $60 rate, I have to call them. It was originally went up to around $80
Oh ya, I also get a free line of cell phone service for a year.
This was a Christmas Promo last year.

 

[loneryder]

Youtube tv keeps going up. I may have to start shopping. Which are their best competitors?

 

[Cropduster172]

Youtube tv keeps going up. I may have to start shopping. Which are their best competitors?

They all are going up. FUBO competed directly with YouTube TV and I believe is exactly the same price.
FUBO went up by about $25/month in 1 year.
I think I was paying about $78/month this time last year..now it's $103/month.
You do get literally hundreds of shows and channels. But there's a lot of redundancy with HULU and other streaming channels.

 

[14Accent]

Leaving Comcast was one of the happiest moments of my life.

The second fiber was available at my old house I jumped on the bandwagon. Gig speed up/down for $65/mo, price locked.

 

[Marcozi]

We ditched comcast/xfinity several years ago. Went with Starry and YT-TV.

 

[rijndael]

I'm pretty happy with my Comcast service, but I realize it's quite region specific. I'm in an old Adelphia region.

I have their 1.3 gbps service, it's pretty solid service.

 

[Cropduster172]

I'm pretty happy with my Comcast service, but I realize it's quite region specific. I'm in an old Adelphia region.

I have their 1.3 gbps service, it's pretty solid service.

Their service has been rock solid. No complaints there. Just the price creep is substantial. 400mbps is fine for streaming plus 3 WiFi cameras and a Nest thermostat 2-3 phones and tablets at any given time.

 

[ArrestMeRedZ]

Cox is just as bad. My service has creeped up to $300/month. It seems like the more customers they lose by overcharging, the more they increase fees on the few remaining ones that are too obstinate to leave.
I should leave, but every time I suggest alternatives to the wife you would think I just tried to sacrifice our firstborn to Baal.

 

[Pew]

Waiting for more companies available in my area, but Comcast is too far in bed with Illinois, they're the only provider in mine and most areas. $140/month for gig down and not even synchronous is a joke.

 

[Gyro Gearloose]

Comcast is relentlessly trying to upgrade me with a free new router that is the next step higher speed (don't recall the exact number) but after they go through the whole sales spiel, they casually mention, Oh by the way, for this wonderful life changing upgrade your bill will go up $10 per month. I tell them BITOG loads in 1-2 seconds already and that's good enough.

 

[97prizm]

Comcast will rake you over the coals if you have nowhere else to go. Switched to fiber 2 years ago and they didn't even try to keep me as a customer. I have a buddy that is using fiber in his neighborhood to keep his comcast bill at like $30 for 300/20.

Yeah my town got it's own gigabit ethernet and oooh is Comcast trying to work deals. The only people stuck with Comcast or Quest are apartments or certain large businesses.