Cable Conundrum

A while back, Scot and I decided that we were getting rid of cable to save some $$$ and bought a digital antenna (which works fabulously, btw). What I didn't tell you was that we actually held on to cable a while longer, up until last week, and there is good reason for that.

See, the whole point was to cancel cable but keep internet, thus reducing our bill from $100+ to about $40. Easy, right?

Lolcat thinks this is funny, because it is WRONG.

Why?

Because we have Comcast, aka the devil, aka bane of my existence.

If you decide to cancel cable and ONLY have the internet, those mofo's still charge you.. ready for this?.. $74, and that's before tax and all that fun stuff. So basically, after the bill, taxes, monthly charge for the modem, and monthly charge for the faster bandwidth, we would end up saving a whopping $6 a month. I wish I was kidding, but alas, I am not. The whole $40 a month for just internet only applies when you get one of their package deals.

What is a couple trying to save up for their wedding to do??

Errr, beats us.

Well yours truly had been receiving all this "junk" mail from a wireless internet company called Clear for a while; I've seen some mini-stores of theirs and heard some things, and decided to actually look at what they were offering. It turns out that it was a pretty good deal: we bought their modem for $80 (no monthly rental) and they only charge us $35 a month for internet. That's it! The connection is actually pretty fast, since we live on the 11th floor of a building that has a clear view of the closest signal tower in our area. We cancelled cable last week, and now have this nifty set up of antenna and modem on our living room window:

Ignore the plastic still on the modem.

So all this long-winded typing is to convey the point that Comcast still sucks but we were able to make it work. And that I already miss Top Chef on Bravo :(