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Tweet Topic Started: Oct 22 2007, 10:18 PM (314 Views)
StYoung	Oct 22 2007, 10:18 PM Post #1
Elite Posts: 2,734 Group: God Member #17 Joined: July 13, 2006	We recently purchased satellite internet from Dish Network at my house. Recently as in two days ago. $200 installation fee, pretty expensive monthly, kind of fast but can't be used for online (console) gaming. Plus, after my mom signed an 18-month ( ) contract, the installers informed me that I only get a certain amount of uploads and downloads a month until the service turns into dial-up-ness. Lame. So today my brother found out that we can get Comcast high-speed internet. Cheap installation. Same monthly (maybe even cheaper). Can play online games. Etc. So, what to do? I don't know about this contract thing but I want Comcast now...
	dagoss,Nov 17 2007 05:13 PM OMG, this is the best topic ever made. I nominate Steve for God!


dagoss	Oct 22 2007, 11:02 PM Post #2
Smarty Pants Posts: 2,884 Group: Senior Members Member #29 Joined: September 20, 2006	18 month contract? What was your family thinking? Last year me and my former roommates spent about $80 for high speed and digital cable with a lot of channels from Service Electric, the Cable/Internet/Phone monopoly of northeast PA. Last Christmas I spent a month at a friend's house who had Dish Network television. It was mindblowing crap. Digital cable has like quick loading menus and easy channel surfing. Satellite seriously takes like 5-10 seconds to switch channels. I don't really get why anyone has it. Unless you live out in the middle of nowhere where you can't get cable, I would never take Satellite. Comcast isn't the nicest bunch, but no ISP's are required to be evil. I have DSL now. It is surprisingly efficient.



Deleted User	Oct 23 2007, 06:29 AM Post #3
Deleted User	I dunno about the US, but in the UK you can cancel a contract in the first 90 days if you're not happy with it. Maybe you (or your mum) can still cancel?
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GothicPower	Oct 23 2007, 06:34 AM Post #4
Hacker Posts: 26 Group: Members Member #105 Joined: October 15, 2007	its same in US and Canada
	Just so people dont get stuck on a forum all day here iz a game you can play at the same time www.dofus.com its a very addicting game most people i put on the game never stop


Rapueda (retired)	Oct 23 2007, 11:33 AM Post #5
Gemini Squadron Posts: 3,015 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 5, 2006	That's rough. Usually you can get out of contracts like that if you pay an "early termination" fee. Doing that can be pretty expensive, though.



Applepieman	Oct 23 2007, 04:12 PM Post #6
Veteran Posts: 1,147 Group: Senior Members Member #83 Joined: June 3, 2007	Quote: amount of uploads and downloads a month WTF??? What a rip...



Rapueda (retired)	Oct 23 2007, 04:35 PM Post #7
Gemini Squadron Posts: 3,015 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 5, 2006	That kind of reminds me of the old, old AOL dial-up, where you only had a certain number of hours you could use it each month, and if you went over that, you had to pay extra.


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