So I’ve been a customer with Time Warner Cable for nearly 4 years now, and I just have to say that all these promotions that run out are starting to piss me off.  I have HD-Digital Cable, Road Runner, and a 2nd DVR box and was paying for all of that at a great rate of $99.  The thing is, they don’t warn or tell you before the promotion’s up and suddenly you see your account shoot up.  So my standing account balance is right now at $118 because my DVR promotion ran out.  Once my Road Runner promotion runs out in May, it’ll be at $140.  They proceeded to tell me that I could lock my rate in for however long, so I’ll always be paying the $118.  Wtf, why didn’t you tell me about the stupid lock in rate when it was at $99?  So now I’m considering switching over to Direct TV, but maintaining my Road Runner with Time Warner.  Their Internet is very fast which is awesome.  The stupid outages every  now and then really suck (since my jobs require me to have online access at all times, oh how I miss the days of living in a dorm and having like a freaking bigass T1 or T2 line or whatever they had).

Unfortunately, I’m caught in a predicament.  I have some strange promotion because I’ve bundled my cable and internet services, so I’m paying for Road Runner at $40.  It’s typically $49.99 for the 7mps download rate ($34.99 for 5mps and that is just not that fast).  So if I do Direct TV for cable ($49.99, unless they offer some promotion) I’m essentially paying for the same shit.  So I’m caught in a dilemma.  However, I did think of one solution.

I currently have Vonage in which I pay $24.99 / month.  So combine that amount with my Cable/Internet package (I’m paying about $143/month for Cable/Internet/Digital Phone).  Now if I do it ALL under Time Warner, I can probably reduce that to $135 or $125/month, which’ll save me between $18 – $8 / month (Time Warner always has all these crazy promotions they offer if I upgrade or start a new service or whatever).  So that might be the better route.  But Vonage does have this one awesome thing, Call Forwarding which I love, although I’m sure Time Warner Cable can do that too.  So if anyone is reading this that would love to give me their input about my current situation, please do tell.