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Post by jmeeks51 on Jun 3, 2014 10:51:56 GMT
As some of you know i have been waiting on Google Fiber to come in to the Kansas City Area and waiting for my neighborhood to get enough signups to get it well, on the second go around we finally got enough signups and construction starts on June 20th. they told me that it would take a few weeks to set the infrastructure up around me but, shouldn't be that long before Google contacts me for a in house installation of both internet/tv. i know some people may not care about this but if i didn't get the above i would be stuck with Comcast/Time Warner and i would hate it being throttled all of the time would make john a cranky 52 soon to be a 53 year old man anyway i am very excited to be tripling my 50 down and 5 up to 100 gbs up and 100 gbs down.. and not for a lot of money either. it's like $120 a month for internet and tv. any comments???
John
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Jun 3, 2014 11:09:41 GMT
John, as I told you the other day, I was with VM and I started to get throttled and I was paying quite a bit! Now with Sky Fibre and have to I am very pleased with it and save £20 per month. Your price seems good. At those speeds you get to see a film before the download finished LOL!
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Post by irvsp on Jun 3, 2014 13:44:02 GMT
As some of you know i have been waiting on Google Fiber to come in to the Kansas City Area and waiting for my neighborhood to get enough signups to get it well, on the second go around we finally got enough signups and construction starts on June 20th. they told me that it would take a few weeks to set the infrastructure up around me but, shouldn't be that long before Google contacts me for a in house installation of both internet/tv. i know some people may not care about this but if i didn't get the above i would be stuck with Comcast/Time Warner and i would hate it being throttled all of the time would make john a cranky 52 soon to be a 53 year old man anyway i am very excited to be tripling my 50 down and 5 up to 100 gbs up and 100 gbs down.. and not for a lot of money either. it's like $120 a month for internet and tv. any comments???
John
John, probably what you want to get away from is the quota that Comcast has in some area's, I don't think they 'throttle'? As for price, I have BrightHouse, a spin-off private company from TW, and uses much of the TW infrastructure, for instance my e-mail if RR.COM. TW had been allowing BH to tag along on its contracts with TV stations. It is no longer clear what will happen with the Comcast take-over of TW. We have no throttle's or quota's on our internet. I have 60Mbps down and 5Mbps up service now. With my wife and I generally using computers at the same time, a Smart TV that streams NetFlix and Amazon service as well as many apps (and a DVD that does the same), and 2 iPad's, I have NEVER EVER to my knowledge used anywhere near the 60Mbps (that measure on Internet Speed test up to 69Mbps) up. I have an AC router for the wireless devices, my wife's computer connects at 866Mbps for instance, everything else at N speed, 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz bands. Do you use it all now that 100Gbps is attractive? As for price, I pay the ISP (Brighthouse) who provides Inet/Phone/TV to us $159/mo. My Home Owner's Association covers the base TV service and I pay about $30 in my dues to cover this, so my total is about $190/mo. The TV does include more than the basic service, extra charge channels, extra guide boxes, DVR, and that runs about $50 or so. Taxes are another $12/mo. Phone is long-distance included in the USA, Canada, and USA non-contiguous states as well and that part is billed at $29/mo. plus taxes on it (majority of the $12/mo.). Your cost seems in line with this I guess? BH is going to 120Mbps down soon. Some Cable modems have been updated it seems to 6 bonded channels from 4, each should easily handle 50Mbps it seems. BH does offer 90Mbps down and 10Mbps up now for an additional $25/mo. They are also going to a 6 tuner DVR from the present 2 tuner soon. I seriously doubt that I can use even higher speeds, even when the grandkids come and hook in more devices, have never seen a slowdown.
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Post by jmeeks51 on Jun 3, 2014 18:27:59 GMT
As some of you know i have been waiting on Google Fiber to come in to the Kansas City Area and waiting for my neighborhood to get enough signups to get it well, on the second go around we finally got enough signups and construction starts on June 20th. they told me that it would take a few weeks to set the infrastructure up around me but, shouldn't be that long before Google contacts me for a in house installation of both internet/tv. i know some people may not care about this but if i didn't get the above i would be stuck with Comcast/Time Warner and i would hate it being throttled all of the time would make john a cranky 52 soon to be a 53 year old man anyway i am very excited to be tripling my 50 down and 5 up to 100 gbs up and 100 gbs down.. and not for a lot of money either. it's like $120 a month for internet and tv. any comments???
John
John, probably what you want to get away from is the quota that Comcast has in some area's, I don't think they 'throttle'? As for price, I have BrightHouse, a spin-off private company from TW, and uses much of the TW infrastructure, for instance my e-mail if RR.COM. TW had been allowing BH to tag along on its contracts with TV stations. It is no longer clear what will happen with the Comcast take-over of TW. We have no throttle's or quota's on our internet. I have 60Mbps down and 5Mbps up service now. With my wife and I generally using computers at the same time, a Smart TV that streams NetFlix and Amazon service as well as many apps (and a DVD that does the same), and 2 iPad's, I have NEVER EVER to my knowledge used anywhere near the 60Mbps (that measure on Internet Speed test up to 69Mbps) up. I have an AC router for the wireless devices, my wife's computer connects at 866Mbps for instance, everything else at N speed, 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz bands. Do you use it all now that 100Gbps is attractive? As for price, I pay the ISP (Brighthouse) who provides Inet/Phone/TV to us $159/mo. My Home Owner's Association covers the base TV service and I pay about $30 in my dues to cover this, so my total is about $190/mo. The TV does include more than the basic service, extra charge channels, extra guide boxes, DVR, and that runs about $50 or so. Taxes are another $12/mo. Phone is long-distance included in the USA, Canada, and USA non-contiguous states as well and that part is billed at $29/mo. plus taxes on it (majority of the $12/mo.). Your cost seems in line with this I guess? BH is going to 120Mbps down soon. Some Cable modems have been updated it seems to 6 bonded channels from 4, each should easily handle 50Mbps it seems. BH does offer 90Mbps down and 10Mbps up now for an additional $25/mo. They are also going to a 6 tuner DVR from the present 2 tuner soon. I seriously doubt that I can use even higher speeds, even when the grandkids come and hook in more devices, have never seen a slowdown. Irv, i totally understand your comparison but i was going by what i spend every month, like i told mike i spend $70 on time warner and $120 or more on Directv which is near $220 a month when you add taxes it's even more. i have TWC now i get 50 down and 5 up which is bs do i use that much at one time? no, i don't but why should i pay for that privilege when the speeds don't even stay the same all of the time? i mean, yes, i probably don't notice it but again, crunch the numbers $220 or $120 that's what attracted me to Google in the first place. am i getting sucked in to Google world? probably but who isn't? most of the people in the us are part of Google in one way or the other . am i afraid of a corporate takeover? no, because look at the Comcast/TWC merger they are doing it anyway i just choose not to be a part of it. yeah, i know that google is built in the same form but has TWC or Comcast even offered that kind of speed that Google does with out breaking the bank each month? probably not. So i will take the lesser of the two evils here and come out ahead on almost tripling my speed for less money. i am not going to get in a who is a better ISP than the other but, i will say this, when you add taxes, hidding feeds with cable channels each month ect. do people really come out ahead by having cable for internet and tv? John
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Post by irvsp on Jun 3, 2014 18:42:06 GMT
i am not going to get in a who is a better ISP than the other but, i will say this, when you add taxes, hidding feeds with cable channels each month ect. do people really come out ahead by having cable for internet and tv? John John, my bill says I saved $65 by bundling. Yes, it IS true... BH charges more for 'single play', than 'double play', 'triple play' and 'quadruple play' (they also do home security). Like I said, on my bill the phone is $29.95, but the 'list' is $39.95, that is due to the 'triple play' we have. Just like the premium TV channels, HBO alone is almost as much as HBO, SHOWTIME, and CINEMAX, about $10 more, but each one alone is the same price, and it really pays to take all three from a savings point of view. DSL isn't much better by the way. We've got it here too, phone company (not AT&T) uses the same sales stuff, TV/Phone/Internet. Matter of fact when they first put the bundle in a few years ago they offered you $25 (gift card) if you brought in your present phone + Internet + TV bills and if they can't beat it. I think 1/2 my development went in. That promotion was in the paper only a few days and was stopped. They didn't know what they were going against. Of course one reason was our HOA part didn't show in our bill and they were at a disadvantage for that reason but even with it, anyone with a triple play was getting less from BH. Most developments here have walls around them and almost all have HOA's. Many also provide services to the residents, lawn/pest care, tv, etc. as part of the dues.
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