We could pull that off and save over 1000.00 a year, but Leigh-Ann won't go for it. She's not willing to give up being able to watch her shows as they air instead having to wait up to a week for hulu or other services to air new episodes. I'm cool with that. She has to put up with me, she should be able to watch what she wants when she wants.

WOM - Thanks. That was some helpful info.

We've considered the weather issue and realize we may have to make that sacrifice. We have cell phones. We disconnected our land-line years ago, before you could get the deals you get now, like 9.99 a month with magicjack, etc. We want the landline back because of my now being disabled and for my daughter, should there ever be a reason she needs to call 911 or something. I don't want her to have to hunt for my cell phone. Thanks for the advice, Phoon. I really appreciate it and the time you took to give it.

LS- I was hoping that having the 'dedicated line' for the 6 mbps would make up for the the fact that I never get the max 15 mbps (it's usually around 11) on a timewarner 'network'. If the use is high in our network, as it is now, we have even had our internet throttled or connection lost until we reboot the router or call and bitch. Thanks for offering your experience with all of this. I appreciate it.

I guess the big decider will be whether or not saving 400.00 or more a year will be worth the sacrifices we would make by switching. 

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The problem there is, if you have a bundle, like Comcast's Triple Play, dropping phone service make everything else go up in price. (No longer being a "bundle deal")

I have a cell phone, as does my wife. We looked into dropping the home phone. Our package would actually cost more without the phone.

I just did this, got me 2 years of a package at 136.00 a month. I gained a couple premium channels.  I pay for 50 Mbps internet, but I get 85 to 100Mbps.

I also have the Triple Play, and an added fax line.

We currently DON'T have the phone. If we added it, it would be a 7 to 11 difference in our total monthly bill with any of them, so it's minor.

I'm considering sattelite tv with one, internet with time warner, and phone through MagicJack. I'd still save $30 a month. But...the wife isn't wild about having to deal with three different billers, etc.

I tried playing hardball with Timewarner.

I put it to them this way. I said 'You just got close to 20k out of me for the past thirteen years of service. I have two other companies that can give me more boxes/converters AND phone for over $30 less than you are and throw in a free ipad. Tell me why I shouldn't drop you and save $360 in 12 months, go to them and get my $399 ipad, then come back to you in a year and take your $99 a month deal with the $300 Visa card and make $1000 in 12 months?'  They had no response accept to say that $150 was the best they could do (without the phone). I said that I guessed they were willing to lose another 20K from me or at least $500 over the next two year committed contract and they still had no answer. Apparently I am not as intimidating as you guys are.

I thought it was usually roughly 24 hrs...for that savings...oh well.

Now that's weird Jim! I also have Triple Play with an extra fax line (which is very convenient sometimes) at about the same price as you are paying. I pay for the Blast speeds at 50Mbps, so don't know how you get that 85-100Mbps (shhhhhhhhhhh).

It depends on the network, but yeah, some are only 24 hours. As hard or difficult as the adjustment might be, I really want to try it but it's something the wife is pretty steadfast against. I think all of these companies are full of it and the idea of saving 1000 a year works for me, you know? I dangled that idea and what we could do with a 1000 bucks, but it fell on deaf ears.

Jim and LS, I remember Comcast being better to deal with when I lived in Pennsylvania. I wish TimeWarner didn't have the monopoly on cable down here.

The wife just had someone mention 'ROKU' . Does anyone know about that?

I thought was in the link, Noah (there were 3 parts to the article)...it's a streaming player that'll give you many channels including netflix, Hulu..etc. 

"When you have time for TV, Roku delivers with the best selection of streaming entertainment anywhere – from popular premium
services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, HBO GO, Spotify and MLB.TV to many free entertainment options like Crackle, Pandora, Disney and
VEVO. Every Roku brings you access to over 750 channels featuring the best in movies, TV shows, live sports, music, photo and
video sharing, games, international programming, radio, tech news, non-tech news, podcasts, cartoons, clips, cat tricks, and… well,
you get the idea." - roku.com

Worth it for the cat tricks alone.

Right. Missed the name. Got it. Now we're arguing over how she wouldn't be able to watch the freaking Gamecocks. Football is going to decide everything. I knew there was more than one reason I hated football.  

I'm with you on the cutting the cord, Seth. It just ain't gonna float with the wife.

No, Comcast is just easy. Really.

AOL used to be the same way, back when I paid them.

I also pay for Blast at 50 Mbps.. 

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Sorry, Po, not meant to be a hijack.  

No prob. The MBp is an issue for me. Timewarner, down here, goes through xfinity as well. I am supposed to have as high as 15 mbp but tests almost never go over 12. How you are getting MORE than subscribed for is amazing.

I think he puts his sheep on the roof..