w00t! Just saved $100/month

[neovan]

Originally posted by: V00DOO
Did you get your SBC DSL from Best Buy? If you did you will also receive a $50 BB Gift Card. I saw that on this week BB ad.

I actually saw that deal a week after I ordered it. I was banging my head on the wall for missing out on that deal.

 

[duragezic]

Any other ways of cutting my budget w/o taking away all my entertainment needs?

Substitute all alcohol purchases with 5 o'clock and/or cases of Natty/PBR/etc.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: OffTopic
That is great.

Too bad Yahoo DSL don't isn't available here.

I just switch back to Shaw cable from Telus ADSL. 8 month ago I went to Telus ADSL for their promo of first 3 month free (with a $68 CAD modem purchase) then $19.95 CAD per month for 3 month then regular $34.95. And, I'm now paying $29.95 CAD for first six months (I own the modem) then it would be $37.95 CAD there after at 3-4X faster than ADSL speed.

At the moment I'm thinking of going with with Shaw Xtreme-I package for an adittional $15 CAD per month. Does anyone here sees much of a different between basic cable or 1.5-2MB down/256K up vs. 5MB down/1MB up for web browsing/dl?

HECK YEAH! 1MB upload is sweet. GREAT for sharing. Things like bittorrent won't let you d/l faster than you're u/l'ing, so I would definitely like to have more than the 512k I have.

Uhhh... yeah it does...

When I'm on the campus connection, I turned my upload rate to the lowest it would go so I didn't go over my daily quota... I still downloaded fast as hell...

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: Ilmater
Also, how fast is that DSL service. For $27/month, I bet you're getting 1/4th or less of the bandwidth you got with cable. Am I right?

Full 1.5Mbps down.

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Every single person I know that has SBC/Yahoo has random line issues & connection drops , no mater how close to the CO they are. My parents for example are less than a mile away. They'll be fine for a month or two then out of the blue nothing works for a day or so, comes back, and follows up with intermittant service for the next 2 weeks. They place a call about the crappy quality, wait a few days, then it's fine for another month. Rinse, Repeat.

I'm also not exactly a fan of SBC and they're ridding the world of the SNET name, but that's another story.

Well why aren't your friends bright enough to cancel? That's why there's a trial period....

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: neovan
I plan on downgrading my cell service when my contract is up in 6 months. Currently its at $80/month. Hopefully get a plan that's half that price.

Why do you have to wait 6 months? I've upgraded and downgraded many times during the life of my various contracts.

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

What DirecTV promotion did you sign up under? That's one heck of a deal.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
What DirecTV promotion did you sign up under? That's one heck of a deal.

Expert-Satellite

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
What DirecTV promotion did you sign up under? That's one heck of a deal.

Expert-Satellite

how did you get tivo included in that. when i add that option to my cart I get:
1 DIRECTV DVR Receiver $99.00

 

[txxxx]

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: homestarmy
That's cool, but I hope you can live with the poor PQ of DirecTV and the ugly dish, but if you can, kudos to you!

What poor PQ? I've yet to see a good cable signal; analog, digital whatever. If had HD I'd still stick to DTV. HD-TIVO sounds like a plan to me.

Well I have Brighthouse networks and their Digital, even their Analog is for the most part better than DirectTV. I suppose most people wouldn't mind it, but it's mainly the motion artifacts from the heavy encoding being done... those just irk me. Mom and Pop or the average person watching on a 27" TV probably wouldn't care.

You mean low bitrate Mpeg2

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
What DirecTV promotion did you sign up under? That's one heck of a deal.

Expert-Satellite

how did you get tivo included in that. when i add that option to my cart I get:
1 DIRECTV DVR Receiver $99.00

Interesting I also get $99, I'll find out and get back to you.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: Modeps
Have fun with sh!tty SBC/Yahoo DSL! Savings isnt worth the headache.

Working for them in tech support I would actually have to disagree. I would at least try it for the month. 90% of people at least have no real problems. The small percentage of people that do are normally because they're too far out to have service and they complained to get it connected regardless, or there's just simply a bad line/card in the server/whatever that needs to be fixed and when it does it's fine. Most of the calls into tech support aren't legitimate problems anyhow. If people stopped calling so damn much with their unrelated problems it could cost even less...

Oh, have fun speaking with INDIA and the PHILIPPINES. I used to work on overnights, they kicked my ass off because they were sending calls overseas. Now my callcenter is doing almost nothing but Customer Self Install (lucky for that, otherwise we'd all be unemployed). SBC is keeping that in the US so hopefully people will be 30 days in before they realize that they have to speak with idiots overseas for support.

When the first step in diagnosising the lack of a connection is not insuring the NIC is working but by disabling trhe firewall your tech support sucks.

I had this happen to two people that I ended up getting connected (after removing the sasser worm)

 

[neovan]

Heh...just saved another $13/month by cancelling FFXI. I just wasn't playing that much anymore. My time has been consumed by online poker. I'm up $180 for the past 2 days.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: homestarmy
Well why aren't your friends bright enough to cancel? That's why there's a trial period....

I dont use them troll, not to mention for my friends that have them it's the only 'broadband' option available. It's not a matter of stupidity, it's a matter of choices... Get annoyed with crappy customer service and shoddy connections once in a while, or deal with dialup, I think we all know which we'd choose.

 

[Bryan]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
What DirecTV promotion did you sign up under? That's one heck of a deal.

Expert-Satellite

how did you get tivo included in that. when i add that option to my cart I get:
1 DIRECTV DVR Receiver $99.00

Interesting I also get $99, I'll find out and get back to you.

I'd like to know too. That looks like a nice deal.

 

[Dracos]

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: homestarmy
Well why aren't your friends bright enough to cancel? That's why there's a trial period....

I dont use them troll, not to mention for my friends that have them it's the only 'broadband' option available. It's not a matter of stupidity, it's a matter of choices... Get annoyed with crappy customer service and shoddy connections once in a while, or deal with dialup, I think we all know which we'd choose.

I had SBC/Yahoo DSL for 3 years in Chicago and never had any problems what so ever, I dunno maybe I was lucky. Now I'm in Iowa and using Qwest for dsl, and I actually miss SBC. Don't knock SBC til you try Qwest, I had to go out and buy my own modem because the one the qwest supplied was a total POS.

 

[StayPuff]

My SBC DSL sucks -- 5 to 10 disconnects PER NIGHT for over a year now. They've tried it at all sorts of speeds and settings and nothing works. I even installed a splitter in my NID box and ran a cat5 homerun straight to my dsl modem -- no dice. The SBC tech guys at dslreports.com were nice as hell but could never figure out the problem, so I'm going to cable asap.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: homestarmy
That's cool, but I hope you can live with the poor PQ of DirecTV and the ugly dish, but if you can, kudos to you!

I would consider going your route, but I don't have local phone service, and I need the HDTV feed, plus I need a true always on connection for my VoIP, DSL just wouldn't cut it...

Oh yeah, and I don't think ordering the Tivo and getting DSL is really in any way replacing the blockbuster passes... I mean I just wouldn't rationalize them all together in one package myself.

lol, satellite quality is far superior to any normal cable quality.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
What DirecTV promotion did you sign up under? That's one heck of a deal.

Expert-Satellite

how did you get tivo included in that. when i add that option to my cart I get:
1 DIRECTV DVR Receiver $99.00

Interesting I also get $99, I'll find out and get back to you.

sale over now?

 

[Kadarin]

I have SBC/Yahoo DSL (the 1.5-3M/384K $36.95/mo), and it's both faster and a lot more stable than what I was getting under Comcast. For tv, I have rabbit ears (for movies, I have a kickass HT setup).

 

[50]

Nice job, have you considered now changing home phone companys? I might change to IDT in the next couple of months. text, they are available in CA too. $40 a month for unlimited local + long distance w/caller id, call waiting seems unbeatable. Anyone use them?