Back to the Future – Internet

Back to the Future

If you haven’t noticed, things have been a little slow around here at MoneyAhoy.com for the past two months.  There are a couple of reasons for this:

• summer vacation
• moving from Virginia to Georgia
• having limited or no internet!

Back to the Future – Summer Vacation and Georgia

I have probably written enough by now on vacation and moving to Georgia that regular readers are sick of it, so I won’t belabor the point much.  But moving sucks!  I feel like I haven’t really had time to get into my normal routine for the past month.  Now that most of the dust has settled and we are 90% unpacked, I can breath a sigh of relief and get back to work making, saving, and investing money!

Back to the Future – The Internet

I can finally say that I have returned back to the future – we just got our high-speed cable internet hooked up yesterday.  As such, things will be picking up a little bit around here as I have several post ideas in the queue (my head) that are ready to come out.

One benefit of moving to a new location is we get to sign-up for a “new customer” internet deal.  One of the first MoneyAhoy.com posts I did was negotiating a better rate with your cable company.  In this post, I was able to get my monthly charge from $55 down to $35 through a little haggling.  Well, after the year was up, the jerks at Comcast cranked my monthly fee back up to $50 a month.  I tried calling four separate times to haggle, but could not get more than $10 off (the $60 price).  I was left with the choice of getting 1.5Mbps download speeds, or sucking it up and going with the higher price.

Down here in Georgia, we signed up with MediaCom with a sweet package.  It is $35 a month for the first year, then $45 a month for the second year.  For that you get 15Mbps download speeds (the guy actually upgraded me to 50Mbps for free supposedly).  Not too shabby!  The only bad thing is that there isn’t any competition outside of satellite internet, so that could be an issue down the road…

Back to the Future – Final Thoughts

For the third month in a row, my monthly money report is going to be coming out almost a month after the fact.  I still think it is a good practice to make myself go through the tracking of monthly saving, making, and investing.  I plan to be a little more early to the game with these reports going forward!

Check out these other great MoneyAhoy posts:

Money Saving – Negotiate Cheapest Cable, Phone, and Internet Service Rates – Part-2 Money Saving – Negotiate Cheapest Cable, Phone, and Internet Service Rates – Part-3 Moving to Georgia – Triple Win Money Saving – Negotiate Cheapest Cable, Phone, and Internet Service Rates- Part-1