[rsmurano]

It’s funny reading some of these posts about negotiating with xfinity and paying $50 - $65 for slow speeds. Yes, 300Mb/500Mb are slower speeds. That’s not negotiating. When negotiating, you do a little homework on what’s out there and then you tell the company; if you don’t give me X for this much, I’m leaving you and going to Y.
I used to have xfinity with 1.2Gb speed (1200Mb) for $80 a month for almost 2 years. I’m an ex network guy and when I tried to do certain configurations on their router, things didn’t work and their tech support was blaming me for not doing it right. In the long run, I was right and they looked foolish.
I went with spectrum for a couple of reasons:
* spectrum uses a modem for their internet so I could use my mesh network routers. Much better than the 1 box xfinity
* I can configure the router the way I want it to be, no limitations
* I pay $39 for 1.2Gb (1200Mb).
So far, no issues, and my mesh network is far better than paying for the xfinity 1 box router/modem.

For the poster that pays $270 a month, that’s 2x for what you should be paying. For example, if you have spectrum, 1 cell phone service is free, another line is really cheap. Instead of getting a land line, get an Ooma device and I used to pay $3-$5 a month. Ooma is a voip device that comes with answering machine and other landline benefits. YouTube TV is $80 a month and Netflix is $5. All this would be in the $130-$140 per month for spectrum 1.2Gb service, tv, and cell. Right now I don’t use spectrum for the phones because I have 8 months left on a contract but I will be switching to spectrum after that.