Rat Bastards at Time Warner raising rates
 

Now the modems will have a monthly fee and the internet service gets a monthly fee bump


turns out to be about 15 bucks a month increase for internet in our area


might be increasing the T.V. fees too but haven't seen that yet.



:cuss:

ill switch...**** that noise.

hopefully you're not limited to TW.
I had it for a day when we moved and couldn't get coverage for DTV....thank god for U-Verse.

Man, i used to love U-Verse... But over the last 2 years it's been a constant problem... internet drops constantly.... have had to replace our "router" 4 times in the last 2 years....

hmm. Yeah, we had it for 2 yrs until we moved 2 years ago now back to DTV thank god. Had DTV for 10 years prior to that

Yep...same deal for me. I only use them for internet, but my only other choice is SBC/ATT DSL. I find it a really bad business move considering Google Fiber is hitting the area soon.

Those rat bastards will no longer be part of my life as of 09/10. Scheduled my Google Fiber installed this morning...

So happy to be counting down the expiration of Time Warner in my life.

You could just not watch TV.

Are you getting a Google TV package, or just getting wired up?

Today is the last day of TWC for me. Feels good, man.

I wish google fiber was an option. The whole "record 8 channels at once/500 hours of HD dvr" sounds great.

Hmmm... I have EarthLink for Internet and they piggy-back (resell) TW service. It'll be interesting to see if I get an increase.

i'm in the same situation
anxiously waiting google so i can dump those rat bastards too

Yep ... i curious about how the addition cloud storage space will work.

moron alert, we are talking about internet service

i think you need to tell them you found a better offer and see what they can give you. my motto is pay full price **** that shit.

I switched to U verse about 3 years ago when they came around. The day they came out and installed, I called Time Warner and when their rep asked "what can I do for you today" I told him "YOU'RE FIRED" and "THAT I NO LONGER REQUIRED THEIR SERVICES". It was GREAT.

It'll all be oboslete in a few years. Netflix and Xbox one are going to take over home media.

Yet another bad business decision made by a big American company. These guys are pulling billions but that isn't enough they have to run off their customers because they want more.

Time Warner has always charged for modem rental haven't they?
You don't have to pay to rent the modem. I know we used to buy our own.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/re...our-modem.html

I did that years before I left the area.

money grab before they lose the community to GF

I just cancelled cox cable and Internet and got a package deal from century link. I had basic cable and Internet with them and was paying 120 bucks a month... For BASIC. No HD and only 50 channels.
I'm getting fiber-optic Internet, Direct TV, high def with DVR's on all three TV's. NFL Sunday ticket and their premium services all for 70 bucks a month. Locked in for 2 ****ing years.

Suck my cox.

They don't give you the option to purchase the modem outright? **** that noise.

Them mother****ers.

They gotta pay for those shitty commercials some how

This is the google fiber effect

Can't beat the price and throughput.

I'm surprised they didn't do away with that long ago. Too much money to be made in raping their customers for equipment rental fees.

Even if you don't have Google available in your area yet, you sure as hell can use that as leverage to bend them over for a better deal. Raymore hasn't been announced (who knows if ever), but ATT falls for it every time I negotiate a better rate.

It must be a sign that I'm getting older that I'm angriest about missing 60 minutes on Sunday.

My motto is "**** bitches, get money", but yours works too, I guess.

Sage advice. I'm not making a cool half-half-half-half mil for nothing, after all.

LMAO. Google Fiber is ass raping these clowns. I just had my install today. I've never felt better about leaving a cable company in my life. They can suck a fat one. BTW, Google Fiber is probably the greatest thing ever. It really is instantaneous downloading. No buffering...ever.

Go to speedtest.net
Take screen shot of the results
Post here.
Thx.

Were you without internet during the install? My install is tomorrow, I'm hoping to be able to get some work done while they're here.

I'm still at the office. Here's a Google-sourced one though.

https://storage.googleapis.com/suppo..._2733180_en_v1

I had cancelled TWC, but they hadn't shut it off yet...so no. I wasn't at home during the install though so it wouldn't have mattered.

Yeah, it's pretty much required to hate your ISP, but Cox really is that terrible. I had their service for 6 months before they increased my bill from $90 to $100, and there was no HD, no DVR, no special channels, and the internet wasn't anything special. Canceled cable at that point and really wished I lived in the Qwest/CenturyLink part of town.


This thread reminded me to check up on TWC... I have it set to autopay, but you can't trust them not to raise rates month to month.... and sure enough, they had bumped it $30 in the past month. Dropped by a store though and left with a better deal, faster internet, a new modem, a couple of channels I'll never watch, and a refund for the $30 increase. PBJ

I'd probably switch to Google fiber if it's ever offered here, but I don't mind TWC... I now get 30mbps plus some extra sports channels for about the same cost as Google fiber, and rarely have signal problems after some initial issues.

They're clearly capping your upload speed. Bastards. :cuss:

Cable companies losing money to internet tv, so the recoup the money by jacking up the cost of internet.

All that "bundle" bullshit just means they have a hand in it all and will get their money one way or another.

I didn't know they served Bellevue, thought they were only west of I-680. But yeah, I've been with them ever since they were USWest and while there have been hiccups since CenturyLink took over and started upgrading the network I would never even consider switching to Cox. They now have the fiber stuff installed in my neighborhood but I've been too damn busy to get them out here to get it going.

I am stuck with Time Warner with my apartment complex. It's a decent enough service but the pricing is fairly unreasonable. They better work out some deal with CBS before the ****ing season starts.

Ditto.

I have Surewest here, so i told TW to take a hike years ago. Hate those assholes and never want to go back. Surewest has been great.

All your modem lease fees are belong to Bill Cowher

So, does anyone have experience with Earthlink broadband in the KC area? I was looking at this - http://www.earthlink.net/access/cable.faces - and briefly chatted with a sales person. 15 Mbps down/1 Mbps up, $39.90/mo for the first 6 months. No contracts, no installation/setup fee, and they don't charge for the modems. Its a little better than TWC prices, but I don't want to do it if the service is crap.

I dumped AT&T for Earthlink. I got the 10 Mbps service for 29.99/mo. It goes to $42/mo. after six months. About the cheapest I could find for a decent connection. I've had it since May and have had no problems.

That and it goes to partially fund cable access for those considered low income.

Seriously?

LMAO

NOW $3it is getting real...

since when?

Good to know. Thanks.

Yeah. I need to go buy a modem also for time warner to get rid of the fee. It pays for itself in a year or less.

Hurry up google fiber.

If you do that you know they will blame 'your' modem anytime anything goes wrong.

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They all do that in reality. I pay just under 60 a month for Mediacom here in Illinois, internet only. Just keep renting their Cisco box because it works very well. I never get close to the data limit, and the speed is real solid.