Cable Prices

[Hamma]

I was looking at the various cable packages in my area and I disovered the rape:

Standard Cable N/A Popular Cable Channels $43.50
Basic Cable N/A Great Local Channels $12.10

Look at that jump from basic to standard, what the hell is that all about? That is what I catagorize as rape. The plans go up to just under 100$/mo

[Squeeky]

:huh: :lol:

Thats wicked wack yo.

I pay $39.95 /mo for awesome cable. Do bad I cant take advantage of it because my PC loses connection to my router often because it's so far from the router. :(

[Jennyboo]

So wrong

[Ghryphen]

12 dollars for 12 channels, 43 dollars for 43 :D

[Hamma]

I'm not gonna complain to much.. right now Comcast is giving us Standard cable for the price of Basic. Not really sure why :lol:

[OfaLoaf]

For a while around here, we got cable for free due to a computer mistake. Too bad they eventually wised up.... :(

[Triggar]

Know how you feel. Brighthouse is the only cable provider in our area, so each month for cable internet and standard (i.e. more than 4 channels) cable = $92.50

My bumhole hurts everytime I pay that bill :(

[starbum]

Meh, I think I pay $140/month for internet, digital cable, hbo, and 250+ channels. yeah, it sucks.

[Infernus]

I'm not gonna complain to much.. right now Comcast is giving us Standard cable for the price of Basic. Not really sure why :lol:

Don't worry... eventually it'll jump up to $50 dollars monthly for cable TV...

We pay 105 dollars monthly for Cable TV alone (2 boxes) and another 10 dollars to rent the modem.

[MattxMosh]

Comcasts absurd prices are why i got DirecTV.

I pay the same for more channels, plus I got 4 boxes, for free.

[Hamma]

Yea I had DirecTV - but now in our apt there isnt anywhere to put a dish :mad:

[MattxMosh]

Can you use cynder blocks and a board on a balcony like that comcast commercial?

[Corrosion]

We pay 110 for cable tv, T1, and phone, all from the same company, Time Warner.

[Fragmatic]

We pay 110 for cable tv, T1, and phone, all from the same company, Time Warner.

ROFL.

Corr uses AOL.

[Rbstr]

no, it's not AOL, AOL is a seperate thing you can get if you want, we get the same thing, its just an internet connection.

[Fragmatic]

no, it's not AOL, AOL is a seperate thing you can get if you want, we get the same thing, its just an internet connection.

www.aoltw.com/ :)

[Jennyboo]

Meh, I think I pay $140/month for internet, digital cable, hbo, and 250+ channels. yeah, it sucks.

You must need lub with that Cable Bill :lol: :rofl:

[Rbstr]

www.aoltw.com/ (http://www.aoltw.com/) :) there are owned by the same company but that are not the same thing.

www.aol.com (http://www.aol.com)
www.roadrunner.com (http://www.roadrunner.com)

you can have roadrunner without AOL, but not AOL without roadrunner(unless you dial up) :p

[Electrofreak]

Time Warner and AOL were separate companies until they merged a year or 2 ago. AOL runs the dialup (56k) service and the servers for the email and all that. Time Warner runs the internet connection service, Roadrunner, which does not use the AOL client (just IE) to connect to the internet.

Now, in MY case, my father subscribed to AOL about 5 years ago, and we used the dialup service for a long time. We never got broadband because Time Warner was a separate company and naturally it would have cost like an extra $40 a month for broadband internet. My dad won't give up AOL because he wants to keep his email addy and he's not super computer-saavy so hes used to using AOL and such, has all his news websites in his favorites folder and so on. So, we would have had to keep AOL ($20 a month) and then get Roadrunner broadband internet service for me, which would have amounted to about $60 a month. Wasn't going to happen. So I suffered under a 56k dialup connection through AOL for a number of years.

HOWEVER, when they merged, AOL-Time Warner began offering an AOL + Roadrunner connection for relatively cheap. I think its currently running at like $35 a month for AOL Broadband. It uses the Time Warner Roadrunner broadband service, but uses an AOL client that requires you to log in to AOL in order to unlock your broadband connection. Its kind of an annoyance but something I'm willing to deal with as my father is willing to pay the extra $15 a month or so for the broadband service. Otherwise I'd be stuck on dialup or paying for Roadrunner myself, a thing which I don't have the money to afford to do.

That clear things up? Good.

edit- damn you Rbstr, beat me to the punch :p