I've been spending a good amount of cash on my DSL internet access. I signed up for Comcast cable internet right before I gave birth. I had tried setting it up in my home office (well, Dave's, since my 'home office' is actually on the living room couch). I didn't go for the $49.95 technician service and opted to install it on my own. I almost did it, except the cable line in the office ended up not being active. I scheduled for a Comcast rep to come in and fix it up, which I had to reschedule for this week since I was in the hospital.

The tech was a great guy and did everything he could to fix the cable jack. He lugged his huge ladder up onto my second floor, went into my creepy attic, ventured into my horribly scary walk-in closet (its a MESS), move around my furniture and lots of other things to figure out the problem with the jack. Unfortunately, he couldn't fix it, but he said that we could have someone route a new wire in there, which would involve drilling into the wall.

It seemed like a lot of trouble just to get cable internet going on, so I searched the web for more options.

Turns out that SBC, my local internet provider, merged with AT&T. I checked out their current internet prices, and it's $15 less than what I'm paying right now. So I called in and explained that I'm paying the old rate and that the new rate was significantly cheaper. The person on the phone told me that she could switch me over to the new service with no problem, and that there was actually a deal that was $20 less for a year, then would switch over to the $15 less after that year was over.

So I will be saving $20 a month with this deal - that should be good for a pack of diapers, right?

Posted by Yano at April 25, 2006 09:15 PM

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