We were paying $228 a month for Comcast Xfinity Internet, landline, and cable TV in Minnesota. This was just for the basic HD channels, no premium movie channels. We have 300 meg Internet speed.
We cut the Comcast cable TV service, and the price dropped down to about $108 a month for the 300 meg speed, with the landline and no cable TV. We then added YouTube TV streaming service, not to be confused with the YouTube videos. The YouTube TV service costs $50 and would work in Florida or your snow belt home, if you are a snowbird.
We could save another $15 a month if we reduce from 300 meg Internet service down to 100 meg Internet service, which would be fast enough, but we haven't done that yet. We could also buy a $200 cable modem that has telephone jacks for the cable landline, and save the $14 a month cable modem rental fee. The cable modems without the cable landline jacks are about $80. We could drop the cable landline, save another $12 a month, and start using Google Voice, which is free. Google Voice has free long distance and many other features, all free. Except I would have to use an Obihai set top box which costs about $50 to $80 one time cost to interface Google Voice to the landline telephone sets.
There are many things you can do to reduce that huge Comcast bill. We did the same thing switching from Verizon to T-Mobile Magenta Plus to cut half the the monthly costs. T-Mobile Magenta Plus includes Netflix for free, and one of the two iWatches for free. Plus free GoGo WiFi on flights that offer WiFi service. Better and less expensive service when traveling overseas.
We also bought a remote electrical switch from the 5G store a few years ago to automatically reset the cable modem, and our 24 port Internet switch box when the cable modem needs to be reset. Occasionally, we would have to power cycle the cable modem to reset it. We never have to do that with the power switch box that monitors the Internet. If there is a loss of Internet, it automatically resets the power on the cable modem and 24 port Eithernet switch box. I've looked in the log of the switch, and it usually resets the power on the cable modem once or a couple times a month. That's a great product to own if you are a snow bird, or you don't want to ever have to reset your cable modem power again.
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There are many things you can to reduce your monthly costs without reducing your quality of life. You only need to do a little research. Most customers just stick with their cable service, their auto and home insurance, and other things. Those companies slowly jack up the prices. Only a few customers switch to alternatives. If you want to keep Comcast at the same level of service, all you have to do is to call their "customer retention" department and threaten to leave. They will reduce your price and/or give you something extra for free. Most customers never try to reduce their price, and the cable companies know that.