Re: Cheaper wifi
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 6:39 pm
I'm not very electronics savvy. I have no idea, except presumably a lot. That's informative, isn't it?PeterG wrote:Joy, do you know approximately how much data you use every month?
I'm not very electronics savvy. I have no idea, except presumably a lot. That's informative, isn't it?PeterG wrote:Joy, do you know approximately how much data you use every month?
i'm glad you shared this experience with Frontier, i agree, quality and type of service will vary with location! important not to overlook that.Peregrino wrote:We lived in 5 different houses in the last 5 years and have tried a variety of different plans. By far the best was one house where we had a Time Warner Cable line. We had a phone and internet bundle for a very reasonable price (can't recall the exact number) and their internet was blazing fast. The disadvantage was that there was no phone service when electric was off.
At three of those places the only option was Frontier and we were not happy with their service anywhere, OH or MN). Very slow and draggy, erratic service, and frequent outages lasting from an hour or two to several days. Their price was very reasonable, though. Had we stayed longer, I would have seriously considered satellite service of some kind, and been happy to pay ten or twenty dollars a month more for more reliable service.
i sent the links to my techy family.Joy wrote:So what is the catch? Sounds too good to be true.
If you can get cable you can buy rather than rent the cable modem. Saves 10$+ a month, costs about 60$ one time. I have replaced a number of these for friends.Peregrino wrote:We lived in 5 different houses in the last 5 years and have tried a variety of different plans. By far the best was one house where we had a Time Warner Cable line. We had a phone and internet bundle for a very reasonable price (can't recall the exact number) and their internet was blazing fast. The disadvantage was that there was no phone service when electric was off.
At three of those places the only option was Frontier and we were not happy with their service anywhere, OH or MN). Very slow and draggy, erratic service, and frequent outages lasting from an hour or two to several days. Their price was very reasonable, though. Had we stayed longer, I would have seriously considered satellite service of some kind, and been happy to pay ten or twenty dollars a month more for more reliable service.
This is ADSL, and the speed and quality varies with the distance to your central office. The further you are out, the lower quality your service. It uses the copper loop already in place for phone service.temporal1 wrote:i have this, through Frontier. they use the existing landlines, but, it's not "dial-up!"Josh wrote:That's pretty expensive. What is your telephone company and your cable TV company? The latter usually offers Internet only access, but is sometimes cheaper in a "bundle"Joy wrote:Then what about cheap landline Internet access? We're paying around $90 a month now.
my bill was $26.99/mo, high speed internet only, it just went up, it might be close to $30 next bill.
it serves the entire house, without wires.
packages are available.
i no longer have a landline phone, fax, or other.
my landline is now only used for internet access.
for me, it's a better quality connection than satellite (country location.)
i.e., fewer outages due to trees, etc.
You can get ADSL "Modems" as well, and save the rental fee also, but they are a bit difficult to set up. I have set these up as well.Robert wrote:Most phone companies sell "naked" dsl. This is internet only. This usually runs between $25 and $40 a month. This is unlimited use. They often do not advertize it because they want to sell bundles and make more money. You may have to ask the phone company you use specifically for it. They will then try to upsell you to more speed or data. Decline. The basic speed is more than enough form all but the most hard core streamers.
And of the boxes like Karma, or any of the cell phone companies that sell access boxes like that, you are getting access through the cell towers. This is almost always metered and you are charged or limited to amounts of data used. For a light user, one who browses the net occansionally, these are okay. For any streaming or heavy use, this often becomes a limitation.