I am flummoxed. First they promote the over the air digital TV signal and make you go out and get "converters" so you don't hafta buy a new TV ...then you find out you only get 2 channels where you live (I have a 30' tower with uhf/vhf antenna 1h road south of Philadelphia ...no mountains here). The converters sit on a shelf. Then you find out cable TV (I was proud never to have subscribed in my life) is expensive, but if you moan they offer a cheap alternative. The >20yr old overhead wire is what they want to use. I was never a customer, and they didn't know it was even there, so I cut it down. At least for my installation money I got a good high speed wire. Then they install using a contractor who blew my fuses and I threw him out. They sent a Comcast guy (looked a little like the guy on the ad) who finished the job. Lucky I have a basement most of the way but he still drilled a hole and stuck a wire outside to get to my home/office. Then he fiddled and fussed to! get miserable DSL speed cable net. I fixed that by getting a splitter that gives more of the signal to the modem and less to the one TV we have. Over the air we received 3 different PBS stations which was great! Now one disappeared (the best one, WYBE). Most of the channels are ads for knives or coins or phone sex. Then there are a half a dozen religious channels; none are my brand. All this for $25 which was for a year and now is up to $37. We get 5 networks and PBS and C-span ...the history channel is fuzzy. So, with fees and taxes we pay $500/year for less than what we had for free Now we are gonna get broadband whether we like it or not. Maybe they could bundle it with health-care. I think people may think I'm impersonating Andy Rooney.
-----Original Message----- From: b_s-wilk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 11:44 PM Subject: Re: Broadband Speeds Map > Can't speak for others, but I am on an account with Rogers Cable Systems in > Ontario that gets me consistently up to 25 Mbps speed. And there is an > account > type that is one higher than that which tops out at 50. Mind you it > doesn't;t > come cheap but there it is. How much does Rogers Cable charge or 25 and 50 Mbps service? In Canadian dollars? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
