• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    These are extra ignorable because there’s no way you’re going to end up paying the rate on the card. They are actually trash.

    • its_the_new_style@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I don’t love spectrum but I’m currently paying less than the rate on some of these cards for 300mbps. I was with Frontier (fiber) but those MFers were charging me over $100 a month for 100/100. I called several times to try and get a better rate and they just essentially told me to fuck off. When I finally cancelled they just said, ok service will be off on x date. No attempt for retention at all.

  • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Spectrum still sends that much spam even if you are a customer already.

    No, i dont want your tv bundle i literally havent had any desire to watch cable tv for over a decade please stop asking!

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    1 year ago

    I live in a partially suburban partially rural area about 45 mins from the nearest mid-sized city.

    Before, we had Windstream, $75/mo for cable internet that AT BEST got to ~5 megabytes per second (40 megabits per second) download speed and extremely little upload speed wireless, which always started cutting out constantly, was extremely unstable, terrible customer support, every time we complained they said our issues were caused by our router which we only had for a few months to a year and replaced it before it started doing the same thing after a few weeks or months. Near the end, video games just became unplayable and having to download even small files was a nightmare. Terrible experience overall.

    We recently switched to Clearwave fiber, which is new to our area, $70/mo for 1 gigabyte download and upload speed (allegedly) presumably when wired. Wireless speed wise, the raw download speed isn’t exactly impressive but it can get to 7-8 megabytes per second which is definitely better, but the upload speed is WAY better and matches or surpasses download speed. But the most important thing so far is the consistency, the connection doesn’t just drop out randomly like the previous provider did, and I actually get a good connection on games.

    I ordered this 30ft Cat6A cable from Monoprice for about $10 on sale on Amazon, looking forward to see how the ethernet experience is with them.

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    1 year ago

    I received these about once a week when I was a Spectrum customer. Since I dumped them when ATT fiber became available, I now receive them three times a week.

  • eclectic_electron@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    They even ambush me every time I go to the grocery store. And they’ve doubled my bill since I signed up. Why bother marketing when you can raise rates whenever you want? They could save so much money by not mailing every day and hiring people to hunt me

  • Sendbeer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is me and Dish. Been over five years and I still get at least one a month. Post office was kind enough to notify them of my new address twice.

  • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    My ex is ATT fiber which, despite having zero love for ATT, was pretty great.

    They are trying to get me back…but they don’t offer fiber (or any service!) at my new address.

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      1 year ago

      I have zero love for ATT but love my fiber plan. I’d like to switch, since they don’t let me change the DNS server, but the plan I had before was awful and my internet dropped all the time.

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        1 year ago

        Are you sure about that? I’m using the official AT&T fiber modem (Nokia white oval) and a pi.hole for DNS. I do remember needing to change a number of settings to get it to work though.

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          1 year ago

          I’ll take another look at it. I had a pihole setup and tried to switch it over when I moved to ATT but couldn’t find any DNS options. After some quick Googling the unanimous answer seemed to be that ATT doesn’t let you. But I’ll look into it again, I would love to get my pihole working again.

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      1 year ago

      lol, I’ve done this, multiple times. the only thing that has changed was that my name was replaced by “Residential Consumer” for the subsequent spam.

  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    If there was a company which charged me $1 / month to send spam mail to a company I would sign up in a heart beat.

    Imagine if a company got 10,000 spam letters via snail mail every month and they had to sift through each and every one to see if any contains actual pertinent information.

    Sure it wouldn’t be much of a hinderance to the company itself but they would probably have to pay a few people at $30-$40 thousand a year to do it.