[rsmurano]

Not sure why people use an ISP email address since you will move many times in your lifetime and will likely have to go with another ISP. There are many email accounts you can setup that don’t tie you down to any specific ISP, for example: iCloud, msn, gmail, others.
You can always setup an old email provider to forward any email to another email address. For example, I forwarded all emails from a prior Verizon email acct to my iCloud email.

It’s easy to move email providers to a new email. I have done this a few times.
Setup all email accounts under your email app on your phone/computer.
Email all you friends to tell them you have a new email address.
Modify all the businesses you deal with and modify your email address to the new address.
Since you see both email accounts on your phone/tablet/computer, over time, if you have incoming email on the old account, things you might have missed on modifying your new email address, you can change these now. Keep watching your old email accounts for at least a year or longer because you might get quarterly broker statements or maybe yearly government statements that you mig~ht have missed modifying these emails accounts to your new email address

[Two Bills]

In UK I had my broadband/email with Wanadoo some years ago.
Then it was just shut down. Nightmare changing all accounts attached to it.
Never had an email address with a broadband supplier since.
Yahoo, and Gmail work fine for me.

[Bobcat65]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Spectrum rep stopped by the house today to see if we were interested in converting to Spectrum, with over a 50% savings. I told him it was interesting BUT we both had comcast (xxxxx.comcast.net) email accounts. He showed me a page from the comcast website that indicates we can keep our comcast email accounts.

SO, has anyone done this? Are there any downsides to doing this? Is there a cost to doing this?

I will be contacting comcast but their customer service the last time I tried to use it, it left a lot to be desired.

Also, I forgot to ask the Spectrum guy if we could keep our existing house phone number.

Any comments from someone who has done this or tried to do this would be appreciated.

Yes you can keep the comcast email and there is no cost associated. Yes you can port your home phone number to Spectrum, pretty smooth process.

[KShowalter]

Yes. I have Spectrum after having Comcast and my email account with Comcast still works fine. We went with Spectrum and YouTube TV. It is much cheaper than Comcast.

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by Mleeja

It is hard, or at least a pain in arse, to change email addresses. I have been with Comcast.net for at least 30 years. Changing financial institutions, doctors, libraries, Amazon, websites, friends, etc would be very time consuming. One doesn’t realize how tied you are to an email address until you want to change it.

Not only is it a pain to get all necessary people to know your new email address, once they type in your name, the old email will populate and they'll go for that because they forgot you changed address! At least that's what has happened to me. That's why I decided to still keep checking my hotmail account which is targeted by spam daily. GRR.

[bowlingal]

I have Comcast....triple play ...... and have no intention changing. They all suck

[jebartle]

Any hope that Spectrum is making that offer to residents north of 466, sure hope so, will change asap.

[Sparky365]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Spectrum rep stopped by the house today to see if we were interested in converting to Spectrum, with over a 50% savings. I told him it was interesting BUT we both had comcast (xxxxx.comcast.net) email accounts. He showed me a page from the comcast website that indicates we can keep our comcast email accounts.

SO, has anyone done this? Are there any downsides to doing this? Is there a cost to doing this?

I will be contacting comcast but their customer service the last time I tried to use it, it left a lot to be desired.

Also, I forgot to ask the Spectrum guy if we could keep our existing house phone number.

Any comments from someone who has done this or tried to do this would be appreciated.

We have had a comcast email accounts for many years. We got Spectrum when moving here,5 years ago, and still use those accounts with no problem.

[GeorgeAndMarsha]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Spectrum rep stopped by the house today to see if we were interested in converting to Spectrum, with over a 50% savings. I told him it was interesting BUT we both had comcast (xxxxx.comcast.net) email accounts. He showed me a page from the comcast website that indicates we can keep our comcast email accounts.

SO, has anyone done this? Are there any downsides to doing this? Is there a cost to doing this?

I will be contacting comcast but their customer service the last time I tried to use it, it left a lot to be desired.

Also, I forgot to ask the Spectrum guy if we could keep our existing house phone number.

Any comments from someone who has done this or tried to do this would be appreciated.

Jumping between providers is a common way we save on internet service; sometimes, we bring our cell phone numbers with us. Every time the "special deal" runs out.

As a rule, we do not even talk to door knockers, we don't want to encourage them. So, we go directly online to see who is offering the lowest rate to new users this year.

And yes, the last time we had Comcast (many years ago) their customer service was extremely bad.

[Notsocrates]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Spectrum rep stopped by the house today to see if we were interested in converting to Spectrum, with over a 50% savings. I told him it was interesting BUT we both had comcast (xxxxx.comcast.net) email accounts. He showed me a page from the comcast website that indicates we can keep our comcast email accounts.

SO, has anyone done this? Are there any downsides to doing this? Is there a cost to doing this?

I will be contacting comcast but their customer service the last time I tried to use it, it left a lot to be desired.

Also, I forgot to ask the Spectrum guy if we could keep our existing house phone number.

Any comments from someone who has done this or tried to do this would be appreciated.

You keep your phone# wherever you go, but not your email address that goes through your ISP, EXCEPTION: when Verizon d/c'd its email svc and arranged for AOL to handle it xxxx@verizon.net addresses could still be used regardless of you ISP.

[Mistymom]

Originally Posted by Jhnidy

I took the offer. I have a Gmail address so I can use anybody for my net. Overall I found the spectrum offer to be a good deal but I had to give up because the spectrum router would not support my smart home products. If you are not running any smart home stuff, you should be good. It does not hurt to try. I cancelled in less than a month and that kept the cost low.

I also had a problem with Spectrum's router. It not only didn't run my smart home device, but I couldn't even get signal on my Lanai or garage for my cell phone.
Luckily I previously used Google wi-fi previously, so I pulled out my 3 pods and now get great connection throughout the house and yard.

[Cheapbas]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Spectrum rep stopped by the house today to see if we were interested in converting to Spectrum, with over a 50% savings. I told him it was interesting BUT we both had comcast (xxxxx.comcast.net) email accounts. He showed me a page from the comcast website that indicates we can keep our comcast email accounts.

SO, has anyone done this? Are there any downsides to doing this? Is there a cost to doing this?

I will be contacting comcast but their customer service the last time I tried to use it, it left a lot to be desired.

Also, I forgot to ask the Spectrum guy if we could keep our existing house phone number.

Any comments from someone who has done this or tried to do this would be appreciated.

You can keep your Comcast accounts, but do need to log in periodically so they don’t close them. I’ve been using & forwarding mail from them for years.

[Andyb]

Anytime you can get away from Infinity/Comcast your ahead of the game.

[jrref]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Haven't done this with Comcast but have done this with two other providers. Was concerned both times that email would stop but it keeps on working. Of course, we have now moved everything to our new address.

Doesn't tell you specifically about Comcast but there is some reason to believe it might work.

As everyone has responded, yes you can keep your Comcast e-mail but I personally would change it to gmail so just in case if some time in the future anything changes you are covered.

That said if you want to keep your phone number you MUST NOT Cancel Xfinity until Spectrum Ports your number to their system or you will loose it forever. So you sign up with Spectrum, get it all installed then call Xfinity and cancel.

BTW if you can get Quantum Fiber, I would get it. $30, 200 Mbs Internet plan, no contract, no tax. If you want a landline go to Consumer Cellular and get it for $15/month. You can Port your phone number from Xfinity to Consumer Cellular not problem. Consumer Cellular will do it for you.

Just did all this for a friend in Fenney, no issues and he's paying almost $100 less per month for Internet and Phone with Quantum Fiber than with Xfinity. Xfinity and Spectrum are good companies but they rip you off with their old fashioned cable pricing plans. And don't get fooled by their $25/month internet because that's only for 2 years then you have to go back and fight with them or switch. If you switch to Quantum Fiber you are once and done.

[mrf0151]

Just called and was told Spectrum is not available just south of 466. Maybe it is just in areas south of 44?