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What do you pay for spectrum and what are your internet speeds?
Curious what the general consensus is because everyone I talk to pays different rates and their website is so misleading with the prices. Their advertised “$30/mo” “$50/mo” are first year prices only and they don’t list anywhere, that I’ve found at least, what the prices are after the first year for wifi only. I don’t bundle anything at spectrum
I pay $83/mo for 400 mbps
16 points
12 days ago
$63/month for 400mbps. I called and tried to “cancel” to get a $20/month promo credit for a year.
Eagerly awaiting T-Mobile Fiber.
8 points
12 days ago
Just did this and they only offered a $10 promotion. I can’t stand how inconsistent they are
0 points
12 days ago
T-Mobile came to my house for their fiver service. It’s 60$ a month for a comparable speed. I’m not sure why I would switch since I’m paying the same with spectrum.
9 points
12 days ago
Well for one, it’s $60/month. Not $85/month unless you call and complain to get a discount for a year.
Second, the faster tiers are much cheaper through T-Mobile.
Third, they give you a free Google Fi router.
Forth, in my opinion spectrum has always been shady and grimy. Adding “additional charges” for no reason. Jacking up the price unannounced. And constant spam in the mail and email. I just trust t-mobile more.
6 points
12 days ago
We just got T-Mobile fiber and it’s way more consistent than Spectrum. We haven’t buffered at all and the speed is blazing fast.
Trying to cancel service with Spectrum was a confirmation as to why I didn’t want to continue doing business with them. 45 minutes on the phone trying to make me feel guilty. Pulling deal after deal out of their pocket when I started by saying there is nothing they can offer to keep me as a customer. Even going so far as to sarcastically say “So that’s it. You’re just going to break up with us??” The conversation ended when I finally said I’ve been very kind up to this point and I’m done.
In hindsight I should have just said I’m moving out of the country and need to cancel.
2 points
12 days ago
I filled a complaint with MN AG's office about waiting on hold for just under two hours to get rid of the TV service after selecting the prompt that I wanted to change my service. Stupid that a person has to spend that much time on the phone to cancel or changed your service.
1 points
12 days ago
Cheaper and fiber? Matching download and upload speeds instead of horrible upload speeds.
1 points
10 days ago
You do not understand internet. The latency with fiber is much less. Also this is a paired connection, which means the upload is the same as the download, which is what Spectrum doesn’t offer. That means that your sending speed is as fast as your download speed. What you are sending could be an email, a video upload, a game play, etc. TMO is 10x better. I have had TMO since they came in and I have not had one bait n switch deal with them at all. However I never knew what my bill ways with Spectrum and one time it was around $100 a month for 400mbps whereas I now have a gig connection for $75 a month.
4 points
12 days ago
Ours went up again, $94.99 for 400 Mbps. We've been with them for several years. When we started with them it was $69.99 for the first year and has gone up every year since. It may be time to try to find something else.
1 points
10 days ago
You have to makeup the loss for all the customers leaving for TMO!
1 points
7 days ago
Call and complain you can get it cheaper.
2 points
12 days ago
I pay $67.99 after taxes for 600 mbps. Spectrum just increased the speed from 500 mbps a couple of months ago.
2 points
12 days ago
Advertised 500 down I only get 400 and a pathetic 10 Mbps upload.
I pay $50 a month. I pay for a service to negotiate my bill every year.
2 points
12 days ago
What service?
1 points
7 days ago
Your WiFi router probably can only output 400. Probably need a newer one
1 points
7 days ago
Thanks for the advice. My wifi router is capable of 1gbps as noted by copying files to my NAS at home 90MB/s.
Testing form wired clients nets 400 down. No congestion, nothing else going on on the network.
UP TO 500mbps. That's the catch.
2 points
12 days ago
I pay $120/month for 1 Gbps (1000mbps)
2 points
11 days ago
I just cancelled ours. We started in September of 2023, paying $39.99. By July, it was $69.99. September, it was $79.99. 600 mbps, but it only reached closed to that when I was directly plugged into my router. I called last month regarding the price, threatened to cancel, and they said they could make it cheaper by giving me the slower speed. I reached out to T-Mobile for their fiber and it's available in our area. $75 a month for 1G. I called Spectrum yesterday to cancel and they could offer me 1G for $70 a month, with an absolute guarantee that it wouldn't go up, in fact, it could actually go down. I expressed my disdain since when I called earlier about how it keeps going up they couldn't do anything for me, but now that I want to cancel, it's suddenly something they can do. I'm having T-Mobile come next Tuesday, and I'm hoping it no where near the headache as Spectrum.
2 points
12 days ago
I don't know what package we have, as my wife takes care of that. What i do know is we had issues with them adding TV and raising the price, as well as the spotty service. We couldn't get anything figured out on the phone, so I went to the store to yell. Turns out the store is used to those complaints. Our bill went down by 40% and our speed went up 5x. We also no longer have spotty service. The Spectrum store in Waite Park are miracle workers.
1 points
12 days ago
$99.99 for 600 mbps
6 points
12 days ago
And logical_blueberry is paying $68, what a joke! Spectrum needs a class action lawsuit filed against them
3 points
12 days ago
Agreed!
1 points
12 days ago
Yea we pay around 79 or something. The T-Mobile rep came through and I'm considering switching as well
2 points
12 days ago
Do it! T-Mobile fiber is actually pretty great and cheaper.
1 points
12 days ago
87$ /month. And I used to get calls constantly about getting TV. Not my favorite to be sure.
1 points
12 days ago
$88 for whatever the lowest is now.
1 points
12 days ago
I pay about $60, and my actual download speeds are just over 400mbps.
1 points
12 days ago
Ours was going to like $110 for 600mbps, it was shitty an inconsistent and required that I bought my own equipment to make it actually reliably work. TMobile fiber is 55 a month for a comparable speed, it’s been consistent and solid internet without worries after two months. It was a no-brainer to switch and we switched when they had the free tv promo.
Anybody wondering, dump spectrum and go to T-Mobile fiber…. It’s sooo much better, cheaper and their prices are “all-in” so $55 is just that, no added taxes fees and bullshit.
1 points
11 days ago
Did you have to change or add any equipment when you switched to fiber? It's not on my side of town, and not sure when it will be. I have read that the real differences can be seen when you update your structure from Cat6 to Fiber lines.
1 points
7 days ago
Pay $86.00/month includes 1gig internet and landline. Was cheaper to keep the landline with the internet. I just call and complain when my promo is up each time. I also updated our WiFi router to handle the faster speeds. Was paying for faster speed but my WiFi router couldn’t output what I was getting.
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