Tips for reducing your costs

ima_drummer2k · Oct 26, 2023

clos4life said: ↑

Does anybody know the best internet service provider nowadays? I'm tired of being gouged by AT&T, they've raised my bill by 12 dollars over the last 5 months.
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Not sure where you live, but google Tachus and see if it's available at your address. I switched from Suddenlink (only provider available in Kingwood for years) to Tachus about a year ago and I've literally had zero outages since then, after having daily outages with Suddenlink. $65/month for 300 Mbps. Lifetime pricing so the price will never go up. No contract, no early term fees, no fees at all. My monthly bill is literally $65. They have faster speeds for more money but 300 is all I need.

clos4life · Oct 26, 2023

Duncan McDonuts said: ↑

It just depends on who services your address. The more ISPs, the better rates you'll get.

Nowadays, it's either cable (Spectrum/Xfinity) or fiber (AT&T/Google). Cable providers usually offer good promo rates for new customers, but it'll dramatically increase after that period. Download speeds are good but upload is usually much lower. Reliability is not as good from my experience, likely because it's older tech. Not that I've had significant blackouts, but maybe lose it occasionally for a few hours twice a year from significant weather events.

Fiber speeds are more symmetrical with equal download/upload speed. Higher upload speeds is more useful for WFH folks.

I was with AT&T 1Gb fiber for a while, started at $70/mo but has increased about $5/mo each year. Google Fiber recently expanded to my area and now Spectrum offers a much better rate. We switched from AT&T Fiber at $85/mo for 1Gb to Spectrum's 500Mb at $40/mo. So far, it's been a good move for us. Wife/kids are streaming content fine. My gaming pings are maybe 20-30 ms higher.
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Thank you, great info!

clos4life · Oct 26, 2023

ima_drummer2k said: ↑

Not sure where you live, but google Tachus and see if it's available at your address. I switched from Suddenlink (only provider available in Kingwood for years) to Tachus about a year ago and I've literally had zero outages since then, after having daily outages with Suddenlink. $65/month for 300 Mbps. Lifetime pricing so the price will never go up. No contract, no early term fees, no fees at all. My monthly bill is literally $65. They have faster speeds for more money but 300 is all I need.
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Will check it out, thank you!

Duncan McDonuts · Oct 26, 2023

Oh, I guess I forgot to add the mobile phone carriers are getting into home internet with their 5g towers. It's cheap. It probably works well as long as your mobile reception is fine.

My opinion, it's only good if you're web browsing or one person is streaming. For a household, probably gonna have issues.

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