{"id":3845,"date":"2018-11-06T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2018-11-06T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:21:54","slug":"new-internet-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3845","title":{"rendered":"New Internet Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a few mailings from the phone company advertising DSL internet service. The prices seemed <em>very<\/em> attractive (about <em>one third<\/em> the existing cost I&#8217;m paying the cable company). So I called to investigate, and found out that there was basically no bait-and-switch; it <em>would<\/em> be that much cheaper. It&#8217;s not as fast as the cable company&#8217;s service, but my calculations indicated it would be fast <em>enough<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The vastly cheaper rates aren&#8217;t even the best part. That&#8217;s being able to finally sever my relationship with Comcast, which has a very well-deserved reputation for being the most hated company in the USA. Mind you, I&#8217;m replacing them with the phone company, which is it&#8217;s typical bureaucratic and inefficient self. I&#8217;ve had to call and go through phone trees for things that there should be self-serve options online for.<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s still <em>vastly<\/em> better than dealing with Comcast. At least Century Link&#8217;s service options are simple, up front, and understandable. Want phone service? Order phone service. Want internet? Order internet. Want TV? Order that. Order more than one service and get a volume discount. No special &#8220;packages&#8221; that make it cheaper to order TV service you don&#8217;t need for 12 months (then you have to negotiate another deal, and it&#8217;s always confusing, and you can never just pay for what you want and leave it at that). No commitment in advance to subscribe for a minimum period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I call Comcast and tell them goodbye. Can&#8217;t happen soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a few mailings from the phone company advertising DSL internet service. The prices seemed very attractive (about one third the existing cost I&#8217;m paying the cable company). So I called to investigate, and found out that there was basically no bait-and-switch; it would be that much cheaper. It&#8217;s not as fast as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}