So I'm finally getting my first apartment for my senior year of college :peace:

 

I just gotta figure out cable and internet stuff.

 

Anyone have some tips for getting started shopping for these? I'm a complete noob, and I know a lot of yall are hardened veterans in the area, so I beseech you for help!

 

I'm just looking for a cable and internet, and we don't really need a phone line.

 

Any good sites for price/package comparison? Or just start googling and comparing manually? (I've already started the latter, but I didn't know if there's an easier way to find deals)

 

Tips, advice, wisdom are muchly appreciated!

It really just depends on where you live and what is offered.

They'll rip you off where ever you are. I'd be surprised if you even had a choice between carriers.

 

BTW, I have a really good story dealing with Comcast internet. You don't have to read it if you don't want, but it is how you get things done if they start to rip you off.

 

 

I attend Virginia Tech and have Comcast internet service. It would always get really slow and unresponsive about 9ish. My roommates and myself were getting really irritated and would call a technician out weekly just so he could take speed tests and make it know that there were problems. Well, we were told for months that they were doing upgrades and that they should take affect anytime. Lets just say it never got better. So, one night, one of my roommates decided to take the problem to the source. He looked up the CEO of Comcast, Brian Roberts, and found his number on WhitePages.com. It looked like it could just be a corporate number, address was 1 Comcast Ct or something like that, but he proceeded to call the number. A machine picked up asking who he would like to speak too, "Press 1 for Aileen, Press 2 for Brian, Press 3 for..." He hung up be because he didn't expect it to be a legit number. We looked up who Aileen was, well it is Brian's wife. So calling again he chose 2, and Brian picks up.

 

Brian - "Who is this?"

My roommate - "A very dissatisfied Comcast customer."

 

Well, Brian tells my roommate that he would have his assistant call Matt shortly and that if he ever needed anything to call Brian's assistant. I swear to you, maybe it was coincidence, but in 30 min it was faster than it had ever been and within a week there were Comcast trucks pulling new cable all through the community I live it. Even a local technician called up my roommate and insulted him because "they had been doing upgrades and running new cable." Well, my roommate drives a bus down here, and he made sure to tell the disgruntled technician that he hadn't seen any work being done. Everything has been great since. It is going to suck when I have to move out of here this year.

Just find out what your choices are and find whats best for you at a price you are interested in. Nut basically you have 3 choices(unles you live in the boonies than something like satelite might be worth a shot)

Cable

DSL(phone company)

FiOS

I have internet connection on my tv cable + a cable router linksys since 11 years ago and no one problem.

If you will use wifi instead cable net connections: secure your wifi otherwise everyone can use your free wifi links/antenna!

Egidio.

It really depends what you have available to you. Hopefully Comcast or FIOS is available in your area.

Thanks everyone. After further investigation it looks like Comcast may be the only choice anyway.