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I receive my internet access via cable modem at home through Time Warner cable and pay around $40.00 to 45.00/month and am trying to find cheaper access, yet sacrifice as little quality as possible. I won't go dial-up, but am looking for ideas how to get a better price. Anyone know of someone else offering less expensive service (dsl, or something I don't know about)? I live in Chapel Hill.
Thank you.
I look at it this way: since I'm only paying an average of 8.00 a month for internet phone, the 46-ish-dollar bill for cable internet is offset by not having to pay 30 bucks for standard landline phone service! Add a small cheap battery backup unit and you've got power-outage-resistant phone service just like Verizon gives you. Take a look at the total picture
Can you watch TV episodes on DSL? I watch a lot of TV now on NBC.com and ABC.com. Does 728 Kbps cut the mustard?
Yes. You could even get by with half or a quarter of that speed... those sites buffer the video. There is no need for an 5-10Mbps download rate (especially when TWC limits your upload and compresses that upload severely, bastards), unless you are constantly downloading large files (GigaBYTES in sizes) / torrents and the such...and even then you are limited to the source upload rate to your download rate, so you might be wasting money for no reason. Educate yourself.
More importantly is having a low latency rtt, no packet loss, etc..etc..Only pay for the bandwidth you can afford.
The op didn't mention anything about phone service, and you are giving inaccurate information on cost, so try to stay on message TWC fanboi...
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Buy a can of Pringles, take 'em over to your next door neighbor with a couple of beers, and talk him into building a home-made signal booster for his wireless router and point it at your house so you can piggy back on his internet service.
I started with the 768k internet from TWC for $14.95/month when I moved last year. That contract expired and they wanted $24.95 for it. I resigned for $19.95/month for the 1.5 mb package valid for 1 year.
Buy a can of Pringles, take 'em over to your next door neighbor with a couple of beers, and talk him into building a home-made signal booster for his wireless router and point it at your house so you can piggy back on his internet service.
So it that how it works? I've been in places before where you could get signial wireless from your neighbor, but I always wondered why... hmm.. well thumbs up if you can do it that way!
I have to assume it violates the TOS of the provider but sometimes I wonder if you could get a few neighbors together and have one person buy the internet, and broadcast the signal using a high powered router, then split the bill 4-5 ways. I doubt anyone would know as long as you kept it quiet.
Buy a can of Pringles, take 'em over to your next door neighbor with a couple of beers, and talk him into building a home-made signal booster for his wireless router and point it at your house so you can piggy back on his internet service.
This is absolutely a good idea & to me people should look into doing this more often. All you have to do is just look at the number of wireless connections available right around your home and you can see how good the signal is even without a booster. I wish I had neighbors that I felt comfortable with asking about doing a deal like this with, because if say 3 people were to share a turbo connection from Time Warner just imagine the savings each month for each person. Everyone would still be getting a very good connection and pretty good speed if no one hogs the bandwidth with movie downloads and stuff like that.
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