Any tips on Spectrum cost?
 

Asking for input cause maybe yall know something I don't.
In December my one year 'discount' for Spectrum Internet is up. It goes from &50 to $85 monthly. I'm going to switch to Frontier (Comcast) for $35 monthly. Will Spectrum price match, or should I switch?

(I only have Internet. I don't want cable.)
Thanks in advance.

Call them and ask to talk to customer retention. Tell them you are not happy about the upcoming price increase, and if they want to keep you as a customer, what is their best price. Tell them Frontier is only $35. Pic the provided that wants your business.

Make sure the speed is adequate.

After you switch they will call you with super offers. Like $29/month or even less. I called them 2 times asking for a discount before I switched. to Tmobile. Tmobile swears that $50/month is forever. I hated the phone conversations I had with Spectrum. I gave them 2 chances to keep a good customer and they blew it. Still get mail from them weekly but I would not go back to them unless it was free. Maybe.

Hmm, I am interested in this topic.

Is T-Mobile Home Internet or another 5G fixed wireless an option? I don't know what kind of speed / reliability those offer?

My Tmobile advertises up to 300 meg download. I normally get 70 to 100 meg when I test. Not a problem. I never get buffering or any download problems.

Thank you.

In my little office, I use Comcast Business Cable, whose price has risen from $100/mo to over $300/mo in three years. Hmm, its getting warm in this pot. Comcast offered me fiber, for . . . $300/mo. Now it’s getting hot. I spent $600 pulling CAT6 to my office (it’s an old building) and will be switching to Quantum fiber at $50/mo. I figure Comcast will be offering me a big discount to restart cable. I wouldn’t mind having two services, for redundancy. If they’ll give me cable for $50/mo, I’d do that. Otherwise, I will want another option, and maybe T-Mobile will be that.

Same here. I have a nine year old wireless router that is probably part of the problem but it says it can handle over 300mbps

$85 per month for me internet only.

SE Wisconsin Internet only "up to" 300 Mbps $84.99 - $5.00 (auto pay) = $79.99 total no taxes, includes cable modem. Speed test is showing 292/12 Mbps.

I'm surprised you have the option to switch between Spectrum and Frontier, I've only got one coax cable coming into my house, and it's from Spectrum.

Side deals are good.

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We have 3 providers on my little street, Google Fiber (fastest), Spectrum internet and AT&T Fiber. We have the Google Fiber and it runs about $60. per month, internet only no cable. It seems like the Spectrum trucks are always around fixing someone's cable problem, not so with the Google or AT&T.

This is the truth. I warned them and even asked for customer retention. They said pound sand. So I went with Frontier. No less than the 3rd day hooked up with F S called.

I said, "So you want me to rip out what was just installed (fiber) 72 hours ago? I just hung up. I have no idea who runs that company but I don't care.

DTV did me the same after 12 years. I guess they don't take the threat of leaving seriously. Gotta be the percentages I guess. Anyway, I'd hook up a string to a tin can before going back to Spectrum.

Wireless is the future. Just waiting for them to get their game tight.

We have the same attitude on this. I think we had similar phone calls; I was very polite asking for a price break. Two calls. They said, no way. I actually got a call from Spectrum today. I did not answer but they left a message saying they had just cut my bill in half. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Spectrum guy just left. He is trying every house on my street. He offered FREE internet for 2 years and no price increases for 6 years. Does that mean its free for 6 years ? Even tried offering to pay me. Anyway, I told him no thanks. Spectrum will not get my money.

Sounds like you’re on the wrong end of the spectrum.

I think they are struggling. Everybody seems to be streaming via 5G and bailing on the cable companies.

Cheaper isn't always better.
Providers vary a great deal from location to location.
I was with spectrum in Long Beach and moved twenty miles still with spectrum but service is night and day difference.
As far as service people, when I was with COX I had to have three sevice people come out until I got a real tech, i.e. someone who would throw up a ladder and inspect/replace the very, very, old coax and discovered an ancient transformer that was no longer nessary.

No one is bundling internet/cell? Pretty much the best deal most times.

What kind of bandwidth do you get with 5G?

Bandwidth, I dont know but they promise something like 100 to 300 meg download speed depending on where you are. I normally test at around 100 meg. I dont do gaming so all I need is around 30 megs, I think to watch movies and TV.

This. It costs ISPs about 1/10th of a cent per 10GB in electricity.
Don't know other costs but it should be gravy for them, once they've got and retained a customer.
They are counting on monopoly laziness and the others being worse.

https://www.fiercetelecom.com/operators/you-d-be-surprised-who-top-isps-u-s-are-according-to-fcc-data
Among terrestrial ISPs, AT&T (41.4%), Comcast (36.1%) and Charter (33.4%) covered the largest portion of the population, with Verizon (17.6%) and Lumen Technologies’ CenturyLink (16.5%) rounding out the top five.

I go with a smaller company and glad to pay them. Nice people. Great service.
DSL is usually fine for gaming even...except MSFS2020 won't stream photogrammetry which is a bummer.