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"We've increased speeds 17 times in the last 17 years." My experience is that they increase the speed, and then a few months later they raise the price. Then I
by zargon 8y ago
"We've increased speeds 17 times in the last 17 years."
My experience is that they increase the speed, and then a few months later they raise the price. Then I have to switch to a lower speed to get a price similar to what I was paying before. It's dishonest and sleazy.
- meesterdude 8y ago> It's dishonest and sleazy It's comcast™
- cptskippy 8y agoic™
- khedoros1 8y agoIn my area, with Cox, they raise the speeds on the upper tiers, but the prices on everything. 10mbps for $43, 30 for $64, 100 for $85, and 300 for $105. 10 is slow enough that I'd have to watch my downloads if my wife or kid were streaming something, and saves just $21/month from the 30 package. When I started using them about 8 years ago, I was single, and my tier was about 15mbps for about $30. I think the lower tier was about 5 for $20. If there were a viable competitor in the area, I'd switch to them for a couple years, then come back to Cox as a new customer and get the discounted rates. No such luck.
- kw71 8y agoMy very first Comcast cablemodem gave 10 mbits/sec due to living in the ghetto (no other data subscribers around) and @Home not having figured out how to set a rate limit in the docsis config. They never changed my service as long as I was on the system. When I moved to another system, a different company was managing their data service and I had a 3 mbits limit.
- trumped 8y agoThey increased my speed only once in the last 10 years... but they try to increase the price yearly (I usually cancel my service if they don't agree to keep the price the same, and sign up again at a later time to get the new subscriber discount (could be the same day))