CannaGranny’s Corner a Thread For General BS and Good Will On BudBuilders

[ninjadip]

Hate that shit, only the new customers get good deals, they have Comcast/Xfinity here. And you don't count as new unless you haven't had service in over a year. Keep waiting for fios to reach our street just so i can have a bargaining chip

Man i have to eat my own words... On a whim i started a text chat with an Xfinity agent. They said, what is your question with your bill? Cause i had to pick something from the options.

I said no question, I'm tired of my bill.

Somehow it was very easy... I'm kind blown away.

Went from $123 after taxes for 1 gig down to $85 for 1 gig, PLUS Hulu, Disney, and peacock included. I'm price locked in for 5 years and without a contract. I can quit anytime no exit fee, that's crazy, no automatic price hike in 2 years, crazy

It's not as cheap as i want to pay but much better than before, plus i get to cancel my hulu I'm paying separate for and now we have Disney which we didn't have.

Opinions??

 

[Stoneyluv]

Man i have to eat my own words... On a whim i started a text chat with an Xfinity agent. They said, what is your question with your bill? Cause i had to pick something from the options.

I said no question, I'm tired of my bill.

Somehow it was very easy... I'm kind blown away.

Went from $123 after taxes for 1 gig down to $85 for 1 gig, PLUS Hulu, Disney, and peacock included. I'm price locked in for 5 years and without a contract. I can quit anytime no exit fee, that's crazy, no automatic price hike in 2 years, crazy

It's not as cheap as i want to pay but much better than before, plus i get to cancel my hulu I'm paying separate for and now we have Disney which we didn't have.

Opinions??

i pay more for less... i think my internet is $80 and i pay $33 for hbo/hulu/disney.. and i pay peacock $2 ... i'm at your old price for all that.

 

[ninjadip]

i pay more for less... i think my internet is $80 and i pay $33 for hbo/hulu/disney.. and i pay peacock $2 ... i'm at your old price for all that.

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Tell them you want better, doesn't hurt to try. I'm really surprised it was that easy

 

[steamroller]

You all should feel lucky you don't have to deal with Spectrum~!

 

[GoodShit97]

You all should feel lucky you don't have to deal with Spectrum~!

I have Mid-Hudson cable....... id rather deal with spectrum lol
170 a month for just internet and its dog shit slow.

 

[ninjadip]

I have Mid-Hudson cable....... id rather deal with spectrum lol
170 a month for just internet and its dog shit slow.

Fuck that's probably what they wanted to charge me at first if i was renting their equipment. I swear buying your own modem pays for itself in under a year, and I've had mine for 7 years. Only advice is to do plenty of research on what is your providers approved whitelist of modems and to get the highest docsis version you can afford to help future proof the purchase. I prefer separate modem and router, but that's just cause I'm a tech guy and this gives me the most control over settings.

Just my two cents, i hate throwing money away, and this has saved me hundreds over the years.

 

[ninjadip]

You all should feel lucky you don't have to deal with Spectrum~!

Tell me more, never had to deal with them. Idk who else is as old as me to remember the 14.4k dialup days lol
Back when internet usage had data caps on most plans

 

[GoodShit97]

Fuck that's probably what they wanted to charge me at first if i was renting their equipment. I swear buying your own modem pays for itself in under a year, and I've had mine for 7 years. Only advice is to do plenty of research on what is your providers approved whitelist of modems and to get the highest docsis version you can afford to help future proof the purchase. I prefer separate modem and router, but that's just cause I'm a tech guy and this gives me the most control over settings.

Just my two cents, i hate throwing money away, and this has saved me hundreds over the years.

I own all my stuff... lol
They rape us because of location and theyre the only provider.
So its either pay their price or go satellite and that doesnt work for shit here

 

[ninjadip]

I own all my stuff... lol
They rape us because of location and theyre the only provider.
So its either pay their price or go satellite and that doesnt work for shit here

I get it, same where I'm at, bastards

I tried DSL once years ago, abysmal slow speeds, maybe fast enough to steam movies on one device, that's it lol maybe it's a little better than that but it's terrible

Never tried satellite, but i can't imagine the downgrade after being used to cable speeds

 

[GoodShit97]

I get it, same where I'm at, bastards

I tried DSL once years ago, abysmal slow speeds, maybe fast enough to steam movies on one device, that's it lol maybe it's a little better than that but it's terrible

Never tried satellite, but i can't imagine the downgrade after being used to cable speeds

Theyre also trying to get everyone switched to fiber now too so its all a game

 

[TomH]

Tell me more, never had to deal with them. Idk who else is as old as me to remember the 14.4k dialup days lol
Back when internet usage had data caps on most plans

I nearly went to work for Racal-Vadic in 1985, they were big in everything from 1200kbaud to 19.2k
I can remember hooking up 4, 8, 12 and 16 port Micom multiplexers to 9600k modems, those were usually dedicated lines, but in the old days it was common to do a dialup for the mux too!

 

[Stoneyluv]

i wanna look into the 5g internet, i saw somebody that had one and his speeds were better than mine. the cable hub is just down the road and every time my power goes out so does my internet. for now i hot spot my phone but it would be nice to cut the cable...

my cable company charges me an extra $10 for internet just because i won't bundle phone and cable.. i'd love to tell them to get jacked while i get ripped off by some other company.

 

[ninjadip]

I nearly went to work for Racal-Vadic in 1985, they were big in everything from 1200kbaud to 19.2k
I can remember hooking up 4, 8, 12 and 16 port Micom multiplexers to 9600k modems, those were usually dedicated lines, but in the old days it was common to do a dialup for the mux too!

I once worked for my hometown's first local dialup ISP, which was based at a military highschool academy. Boy was that a trip, helping people configure all the settings to connect, we've got it made now.

What i miss most about those days are my local BBS sessions. Oh man that was cool. Just a free local call, 25 dialup nodes and 10 telnet nodes, which was also hosted at the academy. One bolt of lightning at 1.21 gigawatts to the telephone line was enough to fry it all and was never replaced as there was no profit in a free BBS.

 

[ninjadip]

i wanna look into the 5g internet, i saw somebody that had one and his speeds were better than mine. the cable hub is just down the road and every time my power goes out so does my internet. for now i hot spot my phone but it would be nice to cut the cable...

my cable company charges me an extra $10 for internet just because i won't bundle phone and cable.. i'd love to tell them to get jacked while i get ripped off by some other company.

My uncle tried the 5g with Verizon and it totally sucked, even in a huge city with plenty of towers.

Closer to DSL speeds if i remember right. Is your Internet plan 200mbps? You are right in the middle of 5g speeds

It's crazy so i don't really need 1 gig speeds but the next lowest tier is 500 for only $5 less, so i just stuck with 1 gig. I don't online game anymore, but that speed is nice when downloading huge torrents.