Can you get cable internet without the tv service?

[aceO07]

I pay $29.99/month for cable around 8mb/s up, 1mb/s down. I think it's earthlink. This is NYC.

 

[kalrith]

I'm sure you can. I'm not sure that it would be cheaper/better than what you have now.

BTW, in Missouri AT&T dryloop 1.5MBps down is $29/month and 3.0MBps down (what I have) is $34/month.

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Yes.

I get my Comcast internet for ~$60/mo and no TV. If I get TV through Comcast I can get something like $10 off the internet service.

Just curious, why don't you go with the TV and save money?

They called me about adding Basic Cable to my account. The net result is a savings to me.

Before TV:
Internet - $57.95

After TV:
Internet -$42.95
TV - $5.99
Total with Taxes. etc. is $49.55

After 6 months they sent me some letters (which I ignored) and finally called to try and raise the TV rate claiming I was given a promotional price. I said they hadn't made any mention of that (not a lie) and they rolled right over and let me keep the price.

Anyway, like I said, just curious.

 

[akshatp]

OMG SuddenLink.. more like SuddenDeath or SuddenlyUnavailable.

We had a remote office in TX that used SuddenLink as their ISP and the connection was ALWAYS broken. Their techs were out there so often we considered putting them on the payroll. Eventually the office moved to a different location and thank god we dont deal with them anymore!


Stick to your DSL... Or 56k modem.... Or regular old newspapers! Anything is better than SUDDENLINK

 

[bobsmith1492]

I have internet, no TV (don't even have a TV). Comcast in Michigan...

I pay 62/month, 5 of that to rent the modem, and get >20Mb/s down and 2Mb/s up.

 

[Eeezee]

I paid $50/month for Cox, 1.5 Mb in my old apartment. There was no other choice except dial-up.

It's nice how cable companies are allowed to have monopolies in certain areas...

 

[shortylickens]

Comcast will let you do it. But they are expensive.

When I had everything with them (phone, TV, internet) it was a grand total of 100 bucks a month. The phone was sorta like cellular service: you didnt pay for long distance in the lower 48 states. 911 and the operator and everything else work normally. But if power went out you were in trouble. You had to hope the NiCad battery in the cable modem would last for a while.

JUST cable internet is 56 dollars by itself. Sort of a ripoff unless you dont watch TV at all (I dont) and have some other phone service thats a really good deal.

I have no idea what COX and MediaCom offer.

Incidentally I managed to get 9 megabit connections with Comcast while I had the whole package.
If I used Download Accelerator Plus or a file-sharing program, I could actually get data that fast.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Baked
My AT&T DSL is $40 for 6MB. You're getting raped.

QFT. Ours is like $22/mo for 3mb down.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: metalmania
Right, my TWC internet only is $45 per month but the TV signal is still there. You can watch it anyway.

Yea that's how it is over here as well. I have satellite so I have no need to use a splitter. I wish oh wish for FIOS.