high speed internet and phone service (home, purchase, taxes)

[finnari]

I want to see if I can get better rates with no decline in service. Currently I have Cox and have there high speed/phone service we pay with all the taxes about 100 a month. I am not interested in their cable t.v. satellite is so much better.

Does anyone have any other suggestions. My friend uses vonage and says it's great.

[d2snow]

I have cox digital phone and hi-speed internet and we pay about $60/month.

They do offer a cheaper internet access but you have to specifically ask for it. That one is about $30/month; we don't download much music or videos, so I don't even notice any difference in speed.

Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test

[altus2006]

Originally Posted by d2snow

I have cox digital phone and hi-speed internet and we pay about $60/month.

They do offer a cheaper internet access but you have to specifically ask for it. That one is about $30/month; we don't download much music or videos, so I don't even notice any difference in speed.

Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Who are you using for television?

altus2006

[d2snow]

I have satellite - Direct TV.

[FunBunch7]

Call up COX and tell them that with all that is going on wiht the economy you just can't afford to keep all their services...you may have to initiate a "cancel of services"...

This worked for me last week and I got them to drop my High Speed Internet from $44.95 down to $33.95 per month. I had already cancelled my phone since we all have 4 cell phones anyways.

I have pretty much done this with EVERYTHING...DIRECTV, COX Interent, etc. I saved just over $100 per month all said! Not earth shattering, but hey, a 100 bucks is a 100 bucks!

We live in a Negotiating/Bail Out world now....!

[wng]

The Cox broadband service now costs $35/month not 30.00. They raised it recently.
And it's not high speed. I get about 250 KB/sec. download. Something to keep in mind if you download a lot which we don't.

[traveler26]

We just signed up with Qwest. We have DirectTV in Chicago and our phone and internet through AT&T. We were able to purchase a bundle package with home phone w/ 3 calling features (caller ID, call waiting, etc.), high-speed internet, and DirectTV w/ HD DVR on one TV and we will be paying just under $100/mo. including all taxes. We pay around $160/mo. for our currect services, but we don't have HD channels now. We also got 3 months of HBO, Starz and Showtime for free. I can't comment on the service since we are moving in 2 weeks, but the price is good.

[trudawg]

I don't have cable, or internet. I just learned to live without it. I work almost 12 hours a day on a computer, and when I come home I'm usually not wanting to look at a computer. But if it's neccessary I can use my blackberry to get online by itself or I can use it as modem to connect to my laptop which gets me DL speeds of about 200k. I do live by myself though, but if my kids were here, I'd have to get those services turned on lol