Recent comments in /f/baltimore

Smirkin2408 t1_ja7f6fn wrote

Congratulations! I hope your move goes well and I hope you love being here as much as we do!

Summers won’t phase you —they are surprisingly humid, but short! And the winters aren’t brutal! It’s so easy to travel all around the northeast!

Also I’ll say the city has a surprising amount of nature and parks that feel like actual woods is amazing and rare of a city if this size. Additionally Baltimore isn’t very sprawled (compared to something like Chicago) so you can get into the actual country in 20 min drive.

I haven’t found traffic to be terrible—especially for the northeast (as long as you aren’t commuting between dc.

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Fickle_One4309 t1_ja6z1b7 wrote

Internet service providers frequently behave in this way. Without more information, it's difficult to say whether other Verizon 5G users in your neighborhood may have experienced issues similar to yours. If you're dissatisfied with the unexpected price increase, think about speaking with your internet service provider to discuss the matter and see if there are any other plans or discounts that could help lower your bill. Compare offers from different local service providers on websites like broadbandsearch or highspeedinternet to see which ones are offering the best discounts.

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kbeauty281 t1_ja6qlyt wrote

My former Comcast/Xfinity bill was around $170 (highest home speed, plus cable and 3/4 premium subscriptions) now I have Xfinity prepaid internet ($45), Netflix $7.00 (4+ devices w/T-Mobile discount), Philo Tv ($10), Prime Video (Free tier with prime membership), and HBO Max ($14.99). With the prepaid internet 3 smart tvs, at least 3 cellphones, 1 tablet, 1 desktop and 2 laptops are always connected and I've had 1 outage and 1 scheduled maintenance in 2 years. My modem is the Comcast modem from 2019ish and it's still going strong. I went to the Boost mobile store on Greenmount and paid for everything to get started. Took about a half hour to set up. I stopped trying to negotiate with them because they just did it again 6 months later. Good luck.

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yeehawdudeq t1_ja6j3br wrote

I don’t get why people are always surprised by this. You signed a contract that told you what your rates would be after a certain period of time. It’s spelled out in the fine print. I usually keep track of the dates so I can call them around that time to lower the price.

Renegotiate with Comcast. Threaten to cancel your service and switch to Fios. It’s sucks but that’s just how it works for all of us.

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Ayla_Leren t1_ja6g0kw wrote

Monopolies really suck. No one will ever convince me that they honestly have satisfaction from the relationship they have with Comcast. It is something they tolerate because their one contending option is more or less the same BS, or nonexistent all together. Us tax payers are the reason they are even capable squeezing us all to death like they are so find of, so screw their profit margins. ISP should be public utility.

Really doesn't help their case that their website and customer service is carefully designed fifth dimensional chess they expect customers be cool with being spoon-fed will being fucked upside down.

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