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05/23/2003 Archived Entry: "HIGH SPEED INTERNET....I'M DOING THE MATH"
HIGH SPEED INTERNET....I'M DOING THE MATH
Over dinner with the family last night (Mexican food for the third time this week), my computer-literate granddaughter and my financial manager son convinced me that the offering by Classic Cable for high-speed internet service was the “way to go”.
Their reasoning is sound:
• We get $10.00 off per month...forever... on our limited cable TV service fee as long as I subscribe to both cable tv and internet service. We pay $15.95 now so we will be billed $5.95 for cable TV.
• I can eliminate the phone line to my computer which costs about $20.00 per month.
• I can eliminate my ISP service which also runs about $20.00 a month.
• The installation for the high-speed service is free at this time. I won’t have to invest in a $150 modem as they provide it free.
And the price for it is $49.95 a month plus the $5.95 ($15.95 less $10.00 credit) cost for our limited cable TV.
This sounds like a great opportunity to get high-speed service for the right price which will run about $10 more than I'm paying now. I will always be connected to the net and won't spend time waiting for downed services to right themselves or tapping my foot during downloads. Ha...I will extend my life span.
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The technician is coming next Friday to do the installation. He will do the whole thing so that all I will need to do after he leaves is call and disconnect the services I will no longer need. He’ll also tweak my cable TV adjustments as they need it.
I’ll learn then about my email address options. I just notified everyone of my change of address, so now I’ll have to do it again. It’s easy to lose track of people when you do that. Someway or other my kansasprairie.net domain name address will still work. I hope the cable internet people have a spam filter as I’ve really appreciated that with KIT.
I’ve wanted high speed internet since I bought my first computer many years ago and now seems the logical time to make the switch. I’ll let you know how it works.
The toll free number to call, if you are interested, is: 1.866.999.6845.