Time Warner Cable folks

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So...you folks with Time Warner, what are your bills like every month? My bill went up this month...again. It is now $180 a month, that's cable with 2 normal boxes, a DVR box, HBO, and roadrunner. $180 is starting to seem a little excessive, and I might have to dump their television service if they keep jacking up the prices like this.

 
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So that makes 80 dollars for HBO and two more boxes...wtf!? I need to call those wankers and see whats up.

 
Heres my rundown.....

About $170/mo taxes and all.

Roadrunner internet, cable phone, cable with 2 HD boxes, one with DVR. No premium channels.

Now it has slowly creeped up over the last year or so, and I don't really understand why. I think they just do it because they can. I'm the type of guy who doesn't care what something cost, if I want it and its good to me I will pay for it. But lately I have noticed the quality of Time Warner's service has dropped significantly. It seems we sometimes lose stuff off our DVR, or something set to record magically doesn't. The new "Primetime On Demand" is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, it allows us to not have to DVR half the stuff we used to. But it only works half the time. We are constantly getting error messages when we try to pull up episodes to watch.

Don't get me started on the phone..... That on occasion will just be dead air for a while. Then be working 20 mins later. Leaving you wondering how long its been out. (It's possessed)

Only thing that works decent is the internet. But like anything electric, on occasion the modem needs to be unplugged for a while and get reset. I'm guessing little glitches like that are what cause the dead air on the phone lines since its run through the same modem.

I've been putting it off, but I think its time I call with a raging case of ****** and tell them I'm not happy paying the bags of cash every month for CRAP!

Through all this I'm still also paying $100/mo for 2 cell phones too. This is where they have me by the "short and curlies": I have priced it out to drop the cable phone and just use cell phones, but since I'm in the "All for One" package, I've been told I'm saving money that way. With the price changes, dropping the phone and keeping only internet and cable, it would only change the monthly bill by about $12. So I just keep the phone for $12/mo.

 
Yea, their service is not all that great. I get lots of digital dropout, especially with HBO...that I'm apparently paying almost $80 a month for...I just swapped out my DVR box for a new one, but even when the old one was new...it would sometimes forget to record something it was told to (probably more Scientific Atlanta's fault than Time Warner...but it's easier to blame them).

 
I pay $11.09 a month. It was $7.95, but they keep raising the price. I only get basic basic cable. I get channels 2 through 24 so some cable channels- but this is mostly for clear reception for basic tv channels.

 
like 145 per month hd dvr 2 boxes hbo showtime. we still have the 12 month intro package. i move every year so i am only ever on that package.

 
I pay about $90 a month for a HD DVR box and Road Runner...but that's because I called them when I was moving to cancel my service and told them I was switching to a satillite provider and they gave me some discounts off of the $110 I was paying. Call them up and play hardball...but if you really don't want to switch, wear your poker face.

 
We, too, have had problems with the phone dropping out.

Nate, I believe the "magically disappearing" shows may be set to automatically erase when your drive is almost full. You can set each file to delete itself after a certain amount of time, and you can set a default by going into the actual recording preset (through the guide or through "to be recorded" shows).

 
180. holy crap.

I gave up at 110 in the year 2000...

no more reruns.

now the net is my only rerun.

For an infrastructure so important, the lack of bandwidth and old school float drifitng, and cache rewinds are just no f*cking excuses anymore...forgive my anger. I am ten years with it. DSL was a nice break, and then verizon bailed, then fairpoint...ow back to the hippy dippy freelobe of neghborhood open broadband..I wonder if my neighbor is still downloading songs when I have " local server" enabled...

if everyone stopped humoring the crazy cost, it could get fxed in a hurry, I am sure. It is called a boycott, to put costs back where they belong....

it is like a bunch of defenseless ninny geeks with billions of flunking dollars.

 
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