Think the only thing you left out is buying/owning your own equipment once you decided on/signed up for a service. It might be more up front, but cheaper in the long run.
I was paying $85 with sparklight till I called and they said oh we have new plans now $39 a month. AMAZING HAHAHHA and my package went up a tier too lol
We are Rural LA. And the only wired in internet that we used .. we were at the end of the line so it was slow, had alot of buffering and expensive. We had Directv for tv. When T-Mobile finally became availailable we jumped on it. It is 100 times better then what we had. Dropped Directv got Philo and did the Black Friday deals for the major streaming. Decided which ones we really watched and kept 3 the next year. We also have Prime. That being said we still pay less a month then for either the old internet or Directv. And for our local tv we have a window antenna.
Switched from $90 Spectrum to $40 T-Mobile 5G internet and couldn't be happier for almost the same speeds but with half the cost. Got tired of Spectrum's b.s.
My sister has T-Mobile and I'm very impressed with the speed... She's getting higher speeds than I get with spectrum... The last time I was at her house I think she was getting like 450 down
Like you said, just call up and ask the companies what they can do for you depending on the download/upload speeds you need. I got Spectrum to extend my 2-year-old intro rate of $50/mo so staying with them for now.
@@brandonatech3629 fiber was better but I work from home and everything I do is streamed and zero issues. Worth the change and savings, and future increases from AT&T.
We are too far from the Internet on any provider. And only have Spectrum for cable. Only other options are satellite that are all more than my spectrum. In a rural area in Western New York 30 miles from any sizable towns.
I am paying over $100 per month for Charter/Spectrum for 600 Mbps Internet in the Traverse City, MI area. I think it is time to call them and see what tier plans they have
@@rideintothesun8106 I'll have to look into those if they become available here in rural NC. I'm beyond tired of paying $80/month just for freaking Internet.
If you live in an area with a single service provider, consider having your significant other sign up to take advantage of introductory pricing. For example, the service is currently in my name, but to benefit from the introductory rates, I had my wife sign up. This way, we take advantage of the lower rates for 12-24 months before switching back.
I have xfinity Gigabit for $50 a month because, with it I get two cell lines for $25 a month. If I go to another option such as fiber, my cell bill goes up and off sets the savings. Unfortunately, one size doesn't fit all
I am in a rural area and do need the symmetrical high-speed for work. As of right now, there are exactly one choice for fiber. Unfortunately, the rest are cable with much slower upload speeds. 5G cell internet is not viable in my area plus, they have rather strict data caps.
I'm paying over 75 for at&t for internet. Being on a fixes income I really want something less expensive. They have a program that lowers you3cost. But also lowers the speed you get. So seems like you save money. But end up with less service. Which seems like a waste of money. So looking for something that is more cost effective without losing speed.
The good: Rural area with 25 MPs (DSL) can stream multiple (3) and 3 Alexa’s, and about 15 IOT devices (smart devices and cameras). Experience no buffering or line drops. I do stop any streaming when doing Zoom calls. The bad: still pay $100 per month ($100 per month in town for 500 MPs).
Great video on this, because that's what I do. I get a great promotional discount deal with my Internet service. And use my own router to save on rental fees.
I have verizon 5G home internet with 300 down and 20 up for speed this my 3rd year having verizon paying $25 month which price lock for 10 years . I live northwest suburbs of Chicagoland I have 6 options for internet if I include starlink.
My biggest complaint with 5G is that it runs off cellphone towers and the speed could drop at random times which is not what I want. If AT&T could promise no speed drop down to 4 Cellphone service then okay. I only have AT&T for DSL and 5G, Comcast is also available but I DSL seems to work okay for now. I live in Pontiac, Michigan.. between two major cities, so it's not like I am in the middle of nowhere, which is why I don't understand why there is not more fiber optic internet options available in my area. Granted I do not need one gig of internet, but I would gladly take 300 - 500 at best for both ups and downs, That is. I think if companies like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all expanded 5G coverage then i could see that is a possible option, however there doesn't appear to be enough 5G cell phone towers around to help with a consistent speed that suddenly drops back to 4 TLE service. Plus the draw back to 5G is the interference with airplanes and since I live not to far from the waterford Michigan airport, I am not sure cell phone companies would roll out a bunch of 5G for home internet.. unless I misunderstood something about the interference between 5G and airplanes.. i don't know. But at the end of the day I would prefer fiber optic internet over 5G or satellite. Why would you promote satellite Internet when that's worse than 5G home internet from my understanding? Or am I wrong?????
I was surprised how many people I ran into with 1 gig on a 100mbps router. Or my windows 7 pc with 8 gigs of ram is to slow so I went to 500mbps to make it faster..
While I agree with your advice, I wish you had reminded us of data caps and if that is a soft or hard cap. Oddly enough, my only options are 4G wireless resellers and satellite. Yet I am only about a half mile from a small town Comcast market. Spectrum has been installing fibre but they are not saying how soon it will be ready.
Sigh, if only . . . Spectrum is exclusive in the area, Verizon 5G negative, T-Mobile not good enough with speeds down around 100K during some peak times. The tower is loaded and not 5G. QUESTION: You can get point to point antennas good for anywhere from 3 to 15 miles. Frontier Fios is 100 yards away. How reliable do you think if I bought the service from someone 1/4 mile away and beamed it to my house? Never done it, but I've been reading.
I have $80 1g fiber with Frontier, and $30 TMHI. So for $110, I have a main, and backup connection. I'm not on the actual TMHI backup plan, I have the regular full plan, because if the main ISP goes down, I don't wanna be capped on data over ~$10-$15 a month.
Will 5g still work if your phone doesn’t have 5g. Just last week, Comcast’s stopped allowing me to go to many web sites saying they are malicious. It’s like citi bank, my bank, etc. I feel very vulnerable.
Get a Chester Cheetah Gateway/Modem and use a Metro By T-Mobile Tablet SIM Card in it for only $20.00 a Month. That's what I do! I have more Videos about how to do it on my UA-cam Channel for anyone that's interested.
T-Mobile doesn't want people doing that any more. They're actually cutting users off if they catch unapproved gateway devices. Its only a matter of time.
@matthewjbauer1990 They can't cut it off because it Spoofs the IMEI to make it look like your still using a Tablet so they can't really tell that your not using the Tablet. They might find a temporary way to stop it eventually but I'm sure someone will find a way to counter it and get it back working again.
@@JoshF151Tech They're working on a way to cut off devices like that too. Its only a matter of time. If you use too much internet on your tablet plan, they very well could cut you off or throttle you for excessive usage (especially in congested areas).
@@matthewjbauer1990 True! I haven't had that problem yet but it could eventually happen. Luckily I live in a very Rural Area so they might not care as much but if I lived in a City or somewhere more populated they probably would care more honestly because they wanna try to make it fair for everyone which is understandable! They don't want a bunch of people clogging up the Network especially if your a heavy Data user.
MetroPC in SW FL, USA = $50/month. Is that too-much, please? I was going to disconnect, for being an old dude with outside interests :-) Nice to have internet, but I'm hoping this video explains HOW to get the least-$$$/month Home Internet. Anyone? happy New Year !! Live...LOW & buona fortuna 🙂psssttt...$50/month is TOO-MUCH for casual users!
You should mention Altice USA, Inc., the parent company of Optimum in the New York City metropolitan area. You might be able to get cheaper internet service getting the lower band.
You have a penchant for conflating speed with bandwidth. 100/200/400 megabit is the width of the pipe that transfers data, in simple terms. It's close to comparing water pipes.
Water pipes can break sometimes. I found that out once when I hit one at my last job. I was trying to put a skid on a shelf and I accidentally hit a water pipe and broke it. 😢Can’t believe I did that after having been there for 29 years! Can you say “pink slip?”
Video is a little misleading. Starlink is $120 a month plus the equipment is over $500 upfront. T-Mobile's 5G and Verizon's 5G Home Internet available but the spots are limited because of capacity reasons. AT&T doesn't really want to sell service because they have limited on spectrum on air.
We hand tmobile. We got it with our old phone plan for $30 a month. It's horrible, cuts in and out, but the alternative is $89 monthly, which is it of my budget. So until something else better comes along.
Think the only thing you left out is buying/owning your own equipment once you decided on/signed up for a service. It might be more up front, but cheaper in the long run.
I live in a large US city in the Midwest and I went out and got the T-Mobile 5G home internet. It works just fine. I like it.
I was paying $85 with sparklight till I called and they said oh we have new plans now $39 a month. AMAZING HAHAHHA and my package went up a tier too lol
We are Rural LA. And the only wired in internet that we used .. we were at the end of the line so it was slow, had alot of buffering and expensive. We had Directv for tv. When T-Mobile finally became availailable we jumped on it. It is 100 times better then what we had. Dropped Directv got Philo and did the Black Friday deals for the major streaming. Decided which ones we really watched and kept 3 the next year. We also have Prime. That being said we still pay less a month then for either the old internet or Directv. And for our local tv we have a window antenna.
Switched from $90 Spectrum to $40 T-Mobile 5G internet and couldn't be happier for almost the same speeds but with half the cost. Got tired of Spectrum's b.s.
My sister has T-Mobile and I'm very impressed with the speed... She's getting higher speeds than I get with spectrum... The last time I was at her house I think she was getting like 450 down
Same, I was trying to switch to T-Mobile but it kept saying it’s not available in my area. Paying $96/month to spectrum, it sucks
Like you said, just call up and ask the companies what they can do for you depending on the download/upload speeds you need. I got Spectrum to extend my 2-year-old intro rate of $50/mo so staying with them for now.
I had AT&T 300M fiber for $70.00 a month. Now I have T-Mobile 5G for $30.00 a month with T-MOBILE mobile service.
I want to do similar, drop fiber for 5G, but we're in a 5G dead zone (and 4G is not reliable either - WiFi Calling to the rescue).
@@MickF04.. I'm kind of in the same boat when it comes to Verizon anyway... I can get T-Mobile and AT&t 5G internet
I bet the Fiber was way faster and better. But wow
@@brandonatech3629 fiber was better but I work from home and everything I do is streamed and zero issues. Worth the change and savings, and future increases from AT&T.
We are too far from the Internet on any provider. And only have Spectrum for cable. Only other options are satellite that are all more than my spectrum. In a rural area in Western New York 30 miles from any sizable towns.
I am paying over $100 per month for Charter/Spectrum for 600 Mbps Internet in the Traverse City, MI area. I think it is time to call them and see what tier plans they have
Spectrum is supposed to be having some new packages and 3 year lock in prices starting in 2025.
@@rideintothesun8106 I'll have to look into those if they become available here in rural NC. I'm beyond tired of paying $80/month just for freaking Internet.
Call and ask for the discounted rate. Its about half now.
I always hated DSL. I have T Mobile Home Internet and its great.
If you live in an area with a single service provider, consider having your significant other sign up to take advantage of introductory pricing. For example, the service is currently in my name, but to benefit from the introductory rates, I had my wife sign up. This way, we take advantage of the lower rates for 12-24 months before switching back.
I have xfinity Gigabit for $50 a month because, with it I get two cell lines for $25 a month. If I go to another option such as fiber, my cell bill goes up and off sets the savings. Unfortunately, one size doesn't fit all
Xfinity 300 megabytes of internet $50 a month
One phone one TV riding off the internet
Comcast went up $78
That's ridiculous
I am in a rural area and do need the symmetrical high-speed for work. As of right now, there are exactly one choice for fiber. Unfortunately, the rest are cable with much slower upload speeds. 5G cell internet is not viable in my area plus, they have rather strict data caps.
I'm paying over 75 for at&t for internet. Being on a fixes income I really want something less expensive. They have a program that lowers you3cost. But also lowers the speed you get. So seems like you save money. But end up with less service. Which seems like a waste of money. So looking for something that is more cost effective without losing speed.
Dis is De Way!
It's been Hard in Dryden, MI: we just Recently got a 2nd Option, Frontier wasnt even offering DSL while the next town over has it.
I actually I’m still on the affordable connection program, my isp continue that plan for $24.40 a month for 100mgs. That is plenty on speed for me.
The good: Rural area with 25 MPs (DSL) can stream multiple (3) and 3 Alexa’s, and about 15 IOT devices (smart devices and cameras). Experience no buffering or line drops. I do stop any streaming when doing Zoom calls. The bad: still pay $100 per month ($100 per month in town for 500 MPs).
Thank you Cord Cutters News. :)
Great video on this, because that's what I do. I get a great promotional discount deal with my Internet service. And use my own router to save on rental fees.
Have a happy new year Luc I always enjoy watching you. You do a great job.
I have verizon 5G home internet with 300 down and 20 up for speed this my 3rd year having verizon paying $25 month which price lock for 10 years . I live northwest suburbs of Chicagoland I have 6 options for internet if I include starlink.
Consider yourself lucky....That is a very reasonable price.
And where I live there are no taxes or fees.
My biggest complaint with 5G is that it runs off cellphone towers and the speed could drop at random times which is not what I want. If AT&T could promise no speed drop down to 4 Cellphone service then okay.
I only have AT&T for DSL and 5G, Comcast is also available but I DSL seems to work okay for now.
I live in Pontiac, Michigan.. between two major cities, so it's not like I am in the middle of nowhere, which is why I don't understand why there is not more fiber optic internet options available in my area.
Granted I do not need one gig of internet, but I would gladly take 300 - 500 at best for both ups and downs, That is.
I think if companies like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all expanded 5G coverage then i could see that is a possible option, however there doesn't appear to be enough 5G cell phone towers around to help with a consistent speed that suddenly drops back to 4 TLE service. Plus the draw back to 5G is the interference with airplanes and since I live not to far from the waterford Michigan airport, I am not sure cell phone companies would roll out a bunch of 5G for home internet.. unless I misunderstood something about the interference between 5G and airplanes.. i don't know.
But at the end of the day I would prefer fiber optic internet over 5G or satellite.
Why would you promote satellite Internet when that's worse than 5G home internet from my understanding?
Or am I wrong?????
15 devices what speed should I get? I have four TV sometime playing at the same time. I have 1000mp 100$ a month
I live in rural America. There aren’t choices.
Good advice 👍
How can I get a hot spot anywhere?
I was surprised how many people I ran into with 1 gig on a 100mbps router. Or my windows 7 pc with 8 gigs of ram is to slow so I went to 500mbps to make it faster..
I only have cable or dsl phone internet. Verizon hadn’t opened up yet for my area . If I wished to get that.
Your channel is the best Luke!
While I agree with your advice, I wish you had reminded us of data caps and if that is a soft or hard cap. Oddly enough, my only options are 4G wireless resellers and satellite. Yet I am only about a half mile from a small town Comcast market. Spectrum has been installing fibre but they are not saying how soon it will be ready.
Comcast didn't try to talk me into anything. They said Internet is $130 a month, take it or leave it.
Try their NOW internet for $30 (100mb) or $45 (200mb) per month and see how it works.
@ed9492 That's simmer to my iusse with Cox here in Lafayette, La.
Lmbo!😂😂😂 I heard they are not negotiating as much as they used to.
Hope you left it.
@@wa210 I really need internet so I had no choice.
We sort of paying for the Internet, but generally, I don’t know how much the Internet goes for so I don’t really know for sure
Sigh, if only . . . Spectrum is exclusive in the area, Verizon 5G negative, T-Mobile not good enough with speeds down around 100K during some peak times. The tower is loaded and not 5G.
QUESTION: You can get point to point antennas good for anywhere from 3 to 15 miles. Frontier Fios is 100 yards away. How reliable do you think if I bought the service from someone 1/4 mile away and beamed it to my house? Never done it, but I've been reading.
Only viable option for me is Comcast. Old phone service over 20 years ago has 512K as a max…no good. No t-mobile, no Verizon and no AT&T here.😢
Do you have a view of the sky? If so Starlink is an option.
@ i do, but the cost is the same, if not more for less speed.
I have ALLO internet in Nebraska with 800 down and 800 up. I pay $105 a month. Does upload speed have to be high?
I am in Grand Rapids and all I use internet for is to stream movies and get on UA-cam, which would you recommend?
I have $80 1g fiber with Frontier, and $30 TMHI. So for $110, I have a main, and backup connection. I'm not on the actual TMHI backup plan, I have the regular full plan, because if the main ISP goes down, I don't wanna be capped on data over ~$10-$15 a month.
I have toast
Net. They resell att. I have 300 up and down fiber for 65
Some of us have no real affordable ISPs deals or options. Hope 2025 gets better quicker Internet deals at a lower depression price.
Not likely
Better options on horizons 🌄
Verizon 5G, love it.
Will 5g still work if your phone doesn’t have 5g. Just last week, Comcast’s stopped allowing me to go to many web sites saying they are malicious. It’s like citi bank, my bank, etc. I feel very vulnerable.
Buy your own modem/router. One time charge breaks even in a year or less from the likes of Comcast charging 17 a month plus taxes.
Get a Chester Cheetah Gateway/Modem and use a Metro By T-Mobile Tablet SIM Card in it for only $20.00 a Month. That's what I do! I have more Videos about how to do it on my UA-cam Channel for anyone that's interested.
T-Mobile doesn't want people doing that any more. They're actually cutting users off if they catch unapproved gateway devices. Its only a matter of time.
@matthewjbauer1990 They can't cut it off because it Spoofs the IMEI to make it look like your still using a Tablet so they can't really tell that your not using the Tablet. They might find a temporary way to stop it eventually but I'm sure someone will find a way to counter it and get it back working again.
@@JoshF151Tech They're working on a way to cut off devices like that too. Its only a matter of time. If you use too much internet on your tablet plan, they very well could cut you off or throttle you for excessive usage (especially in congested areas).
@@matthewjbauer1990 True! I haven't had that problem yet but it could eventually happen. Luckily I live in a very Rural Area so they might not care as much but if I lived in a City or somewhere more populated they probably would care more honestly because they wanna try to make it fair for everyone which is understandable! They don't want a bunch of people clogging up the Network especially if your a heavy Data user.
Is cord cutting even a thing anymore? I don't know anyone that pays for cable or satellite anymore.
Optimum fiber at 300 for $63.
this is the way you can save alot of money buy dvds and your own music cds and mp3s
and buy records , and just get normal cable thats it
Where do I get the scissors for cutting the chord? Will I get a shock when I cut the chord? 😮
Depends on whether it is a major or minor chord.
@@clarkcoleman8143😂
Faster the speeds,the faster the apps load
But you have spectrum Internet but trying to convince everyone to use cellular data not reliable
Going to 500 mbps…from a GB isn’t that much on Fios. I would only save $15 and it includes the Wi-Fi router
MetroPC in SW FL, USA = $50/month. Is that too-much, please? I was going to disconnect, for being an old dude with outside interests :-) Nice to have internet, but I'm hoping this video explains HOW to get the least-$$$/month Home Internet. Anyone? happy New Year !! Live...LOW & buona fortuna 🙂psssttt...$50/month is TOO-MUCH for casual users!
When I had DSL, it was more stable than cable. Response time was always the same no matter the time of day.
You should mention Altice USA, Inc., the parent company of Optimum in the New York City metropolitan area. You might be able to get cheaper internet service getting the lower band.
Altice Fiber offer promo rates for limited time, then price goes up. I use Verizon Fios.
Comcast charges me 150$ a month for internet there wallering out my wallet
You have a penchant for conflating speed with bandwidth. 100/200/400 megabit is the width of the pipe that transfers data, in simple terms. It's close to comparing water pipes.
Water pipes can break sometimes. I found that out once when I hit one at my last job. I was trying to put a skid on a shelf and I accidentally hit a water pipe and broke it. 😢Can’t believe I did that after having been there for 29 years! Can you say “pink slip?”
Video is a little misleading. Starlink is $120 a month plus the equipment is over $500 upfront. T-Mobile's 5G and Verizon's 5G Home Internet available but the spots are limited because of capacity reasons. AT&T doesn't really want to sell service because they have limited on spectrum on air.
I’d never give Elon Musk a dime of my money!
My other question, please stop the UA-cam ads
he's gotta make a living too
You can get premium for 13.99 a month and stop all ads across the board. Otherwise, you'll have to deal because advertising is how they make money.
NO EGGS FOR YOU IN MICHIGAN WHY DO YOU ALL PUT UP WITH THIS TYRANNY...1 1 2025 START..NO EGGS IN ANY GROCERY STORE....WTF
We hand tmobile. We got it with our old phone plan for $30 a month. It's horrible, cuts in and out, but the alternative is $89 monthly, which is it of my budget. So until something else better comes along.