[RosemarySoso]

I am trying to find an alternative to paying $187/month for Comcast. I like what I hear about HULU but I still need internet. Comcast monthly charge for internet only is $93. Are there any viable alternatives to that? Thanks for any help you can give.

[Parker]

We have Comcast internet and it is definitely substandard as compared to other services we have had and will be changing soon when our contract ends. The service cuts in and out, very slow at times, so frustrating. Prior to this we had Century Link and it was reliably good. Just a note, we had Comcast before from 2005-2014, and it was excellent. Don't know what happened but it isn't at all the same product. Good luck in your search.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by RosemarySoso

I am trying to find an alternative to paying $187/month for Comcast. I like what I hear about HULU but I still need internet. Comcast monthly charge for internet only is $93. Are there any viable alternatives to that? Thanks for any help you can give.

The $93 per month rate is their standard rate for internet only service at speeds of up to 300 mbps. That is probably way more speed than you need. I would go online and make an appointment to visit the Xfinity store on Rt 441 near Best Buy. It is much easier to deal with Xfinity in person. You can probably switch to a slower internet speed for less money.

[Stu from NYC]

Different neighborhoods are wired differently. What are your alternatives?

We have had xfinity for past 3 months bundled for tv and phone and internet and much cheaper than when we had verizon back in Va.

[John_W]

Century Link is $49 a month for life for speeds up to 100 mbps. I've had it for 9 years and had one outage, and that was due to a lightning strike.

Internet Service - Affordable High-Speed Internet | CenturyLink

[dewilson58]

Spectrum

[Dond1959]

Agree you probably have a higher speed then you need. We have 100 speed from Xfinity and paying about half the price you are paying. Also, heck out YouTube TV, cheaper than Hulu, same channel’s, better DVR.

[birdiebill]

We have Xfinity/Comcast for high speed internet and You Tube tv for our streaming tv service. We have three tv's, two iPhones, and two iPads, and one iMac. 200 mbps is probably more than we need, but I like it. We have our own router and modem that can handle that speed. Xfinity is $73 per month and You Tube tv is $54.88. You tube had the programming we require and the ability to record what we need and the ability to watch on more than one device. We have had no problem at all with Xfinity internet since we moved here. We had a problem with losing the signal but it turned out to be a router that was wearing out. Replaced router, no problem since.

[timinthevillages]

I agree that you probably don't need 300 mbps unless you have multiple devices streaming at once. 25 mbps per device should be fine.

[alncon2]

Originally Posted by RosemarySoso

I am trying to find an alternative to paying $187/month for Comcast. I like what I hear about HULU but I still need internet. Comcast monthly charge for internet only is $93. Are there any viable alternatives to that? Thanks for any help you can give.

In some cases your options to Comcast are based upon where you live in TV. In my case I live south of 466A. CenturyLink offers a price for life guarante of $49.00/month for 100Mbps for fiber optic service and then I subscribe to YouTube TV for an additional $50/month. There is an excellent group in TV called the "Cord Cutters" and they can give you a variety of options as an alternative to Comcast.

[KSSunshine]

South of 44...we have Spectrum with download speeds of 220 mbps for our internet to which we added YouTube TV. Pay approx $110/month.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by John_W

Century Link is $49 a month for life for speeds up to 100 mbps. I've had it for 9 years and had one outage, and that was due to a lightning strike.

Internet Service - Affordable High-Speed Internet | CenturyLink

I’ve just clicked on your link and got a page offering UP TO 100 Mbps for $50 a month, for life, as you said. That sounds great. But it asked me to type in my address in The Villages for more information about the speed, and I got a page saying that at that address, I would only get 15 Mbps. Is that what you are actually getting? Is that enough for live streaming Netflix without delays?

[glmillard]

I have Century Link. $50/month

[tjlee500]

I have comcast and dropped TV. I lowered internet speed to 100 mbps for $40.00. Got Sling TV for $30.00....

[rick2071]

John, Century link says up to 100mb. I did have them and they we good. But I needed the higher speed and when i was working on the computer things were very slow, so I checked the speed and. It was around 25. I called and asked them why and they stated the contract reads “up to 100” . The,-rice for what i need was to High so i went to xfinity.