Comcast price increases

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:00 pm

I can't see how they expect to keep customers when they jack the price up pretty much about $2/per package for internet but not increase the speeds? I believe just about everything else is going up and those that lease modems are going to get ripped, paying $5/month to now $7/month.

I wish to god there was a alternative that added some cost effective competition around here!!

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Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:31 pm

No one likes price increases period. Have to keep the shareholders happy regardless. I'd venture to say though that the increases are not enough to keep up with the recent increase in fuel prices for their fleet.
Big oil is by far more sinister.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:38 am

AT&T prices went up as well, the price list you have there is what we pay already up here.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:57 am

Leatherneck wrote:No one likes price increases period. Have to keep the shareholders happy regardless. I'd venture to say though that the increases are not enough to keep up with the recent increase in fuel prices for their fleet.
Big oil is by far more sinister.

You work for Comcast.. so of course your going to defend it

But really, the costs rising isn't that much of a issue if they bump the speeds up just a little to compensate. 16/2 is what we have been running on for years with no hint in site of channel bonding or setting up of DOCSIS 3.0 to enable the higher tiers others are getting for less cost.

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:34 pm

I have comcast and my speed went up, but not my cost.

Post by **Philip** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:50 pm

Bandwidth costs much less than 10 years ago, yet residential broadband prices seem to always creep up a bit, as if to adjust for inflation.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:35 pm

Philip wrote:Bandwidth costs much less than 10 years ago, yet residential broadband prices seem to always creep up a bit, as if to adjust for inflation.

Doesn't make sense considering the numbers don't reflect pay increases to go along with inflation in this area alone. To me it wouldn't be that much of a difference if they'd bump up the speeds a little to adjust for it and/or raise the cap.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:22 pm

Who doesn't defend their livelihood? I was dead serious when I said that you MUST keep the shareholders happy. You thrive or die these days. There is no room for a cable company making no profit. We bought NBC Universal for a reason. Plain 'ol TV is dying so we have to look at the future and invest. Costs are high and there is no sure bet.

How does 300/30 sound? You'll see it eventually after businesses soak it up and it's affordable to roll out to homes. There is NO CHEAP cable company offering a "working" 3 service package period. The variance in pricing is minimal. A $150 package is still only $5 a day for 24/7 TV/Internet/Phone. ONE PACK OF SMOKES or a Grande latte!

Post by **Philip** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:31 pm

OTOH, there are companies like Magic Jack and Ooma that offer almost free domestic telephone service, Cable TV seems to all be over IP already, so we're talking about converging technologies into the same medium, cost should be way down. Comcast charges extra for HD, renting equipment like cable boxes, modems, etc. The basic "Tripple Play" is $99, but by the time you add HD, HBO, modem rental and taxes, you're actually up to $140 "promotional" rate. I'm not saying AT&T or the other major players are much different either <shrug>.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:47 pm

Bottom line here is, a package speed increase after about 3 years now wouldn't hurt if they are going to jack prices up like they are. I'm on the 16/2 package and would love to see either the upload or download increase..mostly the upload!! I mean comeon at least push it to 5 up!

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:58 pm

Sava700 wrote:You work for Comcast.. so of course your going to defend it
But really, the costs rising isn't that much of a issue if they bump the speeds up just a little to compensate. 16/2 is what we have been running on for years with no hint in site of channel bonding or setting up of DOCSIS 3.0 to enable the higher tiers others are getting for less cost.

What do you mean "no hint in SIGHT of ..setting up of Docsis 3"? I've had clients on Comcasts 50/10 package for a while now, and we're setting up another one of our clients on their 100 meg package this spring...which is already out.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:39 pm

There is always good old dial up.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:43 pm

Yep, we have thousands of 50/10 customers already and now that most systems are finally down to a basic analog lineup we are going to use up that bandwidth for all kinds of goodies.

Philip, I think companies like Magic jack, Vonage, Ooma, etc.. are great and have their place but they are piggyback services that rely on good, fast, reliable internet service. They don't invest billions in infrastructure & the employees to make and keep it. We may well be working our way towards pure IP, on demand TV but it won't ever come for $29.99 as that wouldn't begin to cover operating costs.

Sava, what do you think is a fair price for your services?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:58 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:What do you mean "no hint in SIGHT of ..setting up of Docsis 3"? I've had clients on Comcasts 50/10 package for a while now, and we're setting up another one of our clients on their 100 meg package this spring...which is already out.

There is no channel bonding around here yet.. otherwise my modem would be showing it.

Leatherneck wrote:
Sava, what do you think is a fair price for your services?

I'm at 16/2 now at the current price for Blast.. go up $2/month then I figure the speed should increase at least to 20/4 and perhaps 25/5 in another 6months considering the increases over the last 3years haven't moved in this area. I know not all area's are the same and I blame that on competition too which sucks around here. If FIOS was available I'd go to it in a heartbeat.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:21 am

Sava700 wrote:There is no channel bonding around here yet.. otherwise my modem would be showing it.

Ahhh...key words...."around here yet". There's a difference between "around here yet"...and suggesting that no Doc3 is being done by Comcast. Ya know, there's no ISP that has 100% equal coverage for everyone throughout the entire country.

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:49 am

Glad I don't have to deal with Comcast. I love My Verizon Fios and so far the prices have remained the same or came down a bit. Triple play 25/25 speeds (always faster) dvr, high def, 5 boxes, free HBO and Cinemax since I started almost 5 years ago.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:53 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Ahhh...key words...."around here yet". There's a difference between "around here yet"...and suggesting that no Doc3 is being done by Comcast. Ya know, there's no ISP that has 100% equal coverage for everyone throughout the entire country.

Let me alter that a little as to say no DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding YET. They have gotten alot better in this area since they took over so I give them that credit. I'm sure everyone here remembers my threads of nearly 8 months of hell cause they couldn't get something fixed and it took techies to notice it cause of how the net is used by myself and other techies.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:41 pm

Not running too bad today, and there's about 50 other peeps on this network right now in this building..some listening to Pandora, probably 10 nurses connected remotely in via VPN, tons of mail flowing in and out, not bad for 190 bucks a month.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:19 am

Not bad for a 3 year old modem and a 5 year old Stinksys router.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:19 am

Lots of complaints around here... many people I've talked to that are on it that saw the increases are jumping to DSL or Sat Co for TV now.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:39 am

Until they see those increases too....LOL.
We have AT&T U-Verse at home, love it, but after the 6 month period goes by, the bill starts creeping up..I'm at 200 bucks a month now just for internet and TV. With some projects thus expenses we've been doing on the house....we let a slight period lapse in keeping up with non-essential bills...paying just a fixed amount to ATT...not the entire bill, they got tired of it and shut it down a few days ago. I'd always done that with Comcast and never had a problem..they just send you more bills. About an hour after talking with Habu in support...had to make an online payment, and they whack you 30 bucks per service you have just to have some booger picker flip a switch back on. So TV and internet..60 bucks! Lucky I don't have phone with them too else it would have been 90 bucks.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:22 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Until they see those increases too....LOL.
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DSL around here hasn't moved at all in pricing for years but the services are picking up. I mean I'm not saying they won't but compared to what Comcast is doing not just for internet packages, DSL and the SatCo's have them beat hands down with the services available for the price. I'll stay on Comcast for internet cause it is faster than DSL and I don't wanna go back to the phone line issues again. Just wish they would jump the speeds up a little to compensate a little for the increase...or at the very least get channel bonding enabled so the increases will kick in anyway if you have a DOCSIS 3.0 modem such as what I have.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue May 24, 2011 12:09 pm

Those darn false hopes of Comcast speed increases...just look at how slow this is!

That's 1 gig into the download..so it ain't "boost"..that's steady sustained speeds!
Had over 5 MB/s yesterday also downloading some more server ISOs for this new VMWare vCenter project I'm doing.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue May 24, 2011 1:54 pm

Ohh the speeds I have now are great..but if they are going to increase cost then give me a little more speed, not asking for alot but 1-2 gigs more on download would be nice or how about 1-2gigs on the upload would be even better. I can usually pull a torrent well over 1000MB/Sec so I don't complain about what it is now but if you raise my prices then how about a little extra on the service to justify it.

spudler · Post by **spudler** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:20 am

I agree and hwat I find so pathetic is in 2009 I decided to upgrade and get the triple play with what they called Ultra speed tir then and my price went from $110 to $159 I believe and that was with HBO,Starz,ENC the works basically plus Sports Tier and the Family Tier which actually had some cool channels.
My Girlfriend that that was to much to spend so we downgraded keeping only the sports package as I watch alot of Speed, NFL and I believe the Science Channel and History are somehow in that package also, so my final monthly bill was $120.
Today I have the same exact setup and with a DVR added and my monthly bill now is $185 which is Rediculous.
If I could find anyone who had Internet Speed capabilities around 15-20 D and 5-10 Up I would switch yesterday but all I find are at best 5 Download and 750-1 upload. hhe type of things I do online with web sites and uploading files and sending tracks back and forth to get some original songs recorded that speed would give me a ulcer and hypertension in a day.