Who is your internet provider?

[CityChic]

DH has been out of work for quite some time so we are scaling way back in preparation to be in this position for awhile.

Who provides your internet and appx. what is the cost? We currently have a bundle through Comcast but for internet only it is around $50 when taxes are included (which seems high to me).

What have you got!?!

[TiredX2]

We have DSL with verizon. We have had it for 7-8 years and bundled w/basic phone service it is right around $50/month.

[Ahimsa]

Is there a way you can share wireless with a neighbor?

[beansmama]

I have a bundle with qwest - "faster" (highspeed) 'net and landline with unlimited long distance calling (our fam is all out of state mostly) and it's about $81/mo with taxes included.

The internet is SLOW even though it claims to be good for streaming movies (hah...riiiiiiiight) but we're saving about $60 this way since we switched from comcast and turned off the cell phones.

If you have the patience, it's worth it. I miss comcast though (just not the bill!)

[Tradd]

I see you're in Chicago. I'm in the NW burbs now and before that in the city. I've had AT&T DSL for five years and very happy with it. They have DSL Direct which is just DSL, no landline phone service, for $30/month, when I last checked a few weeks ago.

I'm not a big cell phone user (just have a prepaid one), so I have basic landline with unlimited local calls & voice mail for $19.85/month + $25 DSL.

Check on AT&T's website.

[Ironica]

We've got Time Warner Cable for internet and phone. We pay $89.95 a month, which includes unlimited domestic long distance, call waiting, caller ID, and bandwidth that is one notch above the bottom (where the bottom tier was just fine for us, so this is luxury).

We were paying less with the most basic internet and phone from AT&T, but they kept raising prices on us without warning (caller ID jumped from $4.99/month to $9.99/month over just a few months!), and we hate their guts anyway, so it's worth money to me to NOT give it to AT&T. And we weren't paying a lot less, anyway.

We don't subscribe to cable TV/satellite/anything, and if we were, the bundle pricing would probably be a little lower for the phone/internet.

[dogmom327]

Comcast (about $50 mo.). Between DH's video games (plays online with friends), my grad school research and our website-based business we simply have to have fast internet service. I wish we could find something cheaper but we tried Qwest and it wasn't as fast and they kept switching our IP address which was problematic.

[KatWrangler]

We pay $60 a month for landline and DSL with ATT before taxes. However, we are canceling our landline and switching our DSL over to our local cable provider. It will be $29 with the cable company.

Now our local cable provider offers free internet called Life Line Internet Access. If you are on WIC or Food Stamps etc and or meet the poverty guideline, you would qualify. Have you checked on that?

[eclipse]

We're in Mexico with a company called Cablemas. We get HS internet along with local phone for around the equivilent of $40/mo.

[Drummer's Wife]

We don't have comcast in my city, so we use a company called CableOne. We pay $57 per month for high speed internet. We are thinking of adding cable TV to it, as it's not much more at all.

I'd look into wireless, Cricket has a plan now, though I'm not sure it would be cheaper. Or even satellite. We used to pay like $28 for a satellite router.

[ChetMC]

Qwest

Originally Posted by beansmama

I have a bundle with qwest - "faster" (highspeed) 'net and landline with unlimited long distance calling (our fam is all out of state mostly) and it's about $81/mo with taxes included.

The internet is SLOW even though it claims to be good for streaming movies (hah...riiiiiiiight) but we're saving about $60 this way since we switched from comcast and turned off the cell phones.

If you have the patience, it's worth it. I miss comcast though (just not the bill!)

We had Qwest "faster than fast" hooked up for thirty minutes. DH did a speed test and it was horrible. Their advertising is grossly misleading. We've stuck with Comcast. It's worth it to us though since we use the Internet for phone and tv too.

[onlyzombiecat]

Our phone company- Embarq.
high speed internet portion of our bill is $34.95 a month.
I don't know where Embarq is available though or if other phone companies are similar.

We are satisfied with the speed.

[Siennaflower]

We have Charter cable internet, the only service available in our area. It's $60 for the basic (slowest) connection.

[CityChic]

Originally Posted by Drummer's Wife

I'd look into wireless, Cricket has a plan now, though I'm not sure it would be cheaper. Or even satellite. We used to pay like $28 for a satellite router.

Anyone tried this? We just got Cricket in Chicago.

[ollineeba]

Our high speed DSL from AT&T is $15 a month (we told them we were considering cancelling and they gave it to us for 50% off for 6 months & said we could renew that price at that time).

[Adamsmama]

Ours is through the local cable provider and is almost $50/month -- there are really no other options here for hi-speed and we need that to keep our phone line cheap.

[JoyfamMama]

We have wireless through the window...LOL

Seriously, it's so frustrating sometimes, but it beats paying for it when we have sooooo little money. We also have no land line, cable, or other services.

[trueyou2]

We have comcast bundle too. Tv, digi phone and cable modem. I don't think it's too bad.

[kay4]

We have time warner cable (road runner) Not sure how much it is seperate, but we have digital cable and high speed internet and I believe it is about $100 a month.

[SAHDS]

Comcast. We bundle:

• Highest speed Internet
• Digital cable with Hi-Def
• Land-line (which we don't use but need for our security system)

I think it's around $95/month.