Jw....

[skottey]

Are they still going to require their digital phone service for the highest-tier Internet? (That's the lamest thing ever.) I have 10/1 and would gladly pay for their 15/X... but they don't let me.

You are right, it is a stupid requirement. Anybody with half a brain would take Vonage over BHN's digital phone in a heartbeat if they knew the advantages and the lower price. BHN is just trying to get more people on their digital phone service and sweetening the pot by offering faster Internet speeds to those that go with them for phone, cable, and Internet.

If you want 15/2 bad enough get a virtual office (biz) account. You'll get a static IP, better support, etc. Sure, you'll pay more, but like I said, if you want it bad enough, go for it.

I wanted it bad enough. I run a business and host a webserver on my link, but it is nice to have the faster connection when it comes to multiple phone calls on Vonage at the same time, muliple net surfers in the house, and better video gaming too with the 360 and PS3. It is just all around better to have. We still need faster uplink though. It should be full duplex this day in age... 15/15 would be a start.. then 30/30... eventually we should all have 100/100 or gigabit.

[stevenl]

I dont think in CFL they have that requirement if they do its pretty lame.

[byron]

You don't have to have Digital Phone in CFL territory to have RR Premium on the combo. You just pay $10 more on top of the combo price here for any combo level to have RR Premium. Digi Phone require must be a Tampa thing to help them easily win over some of the Verizon triple play customers who are not paying attention. (guessing)

Byron

[jcarrera]

$120 a year for 3Mbps additional? $40 per megabyte? Sure, I'll do that. Yeah.

[skottey]

You don't have to have Digital Phone in CFL territory to have RR Premium on the combo. You just pay $10 more on top of the combo price here for any combo level to have RR Premium. Digi Phone require must be a Tampa thing to help them easily win over some of the Verizon triple play customers who are not paying attention. (guessing)

Byron

Before I had Virtual Office (biz 15/2 account) at home, I tried to get a speed bump when I saw the 15down and 10 down offers for an extra $10 a month. This was about two years ago and I was told you had to have a specific digital cable package and/or digital phone, plus Internet to be able to pay $10 and get the extra speed. If you had 2 of the services (RR and phone or that specific digital cable package) you could get 10Mbps for that $10 extra a month, and if you had 3 of the services, RR, digital phone, AND that specific digital cable package, you could get the 15Mbps speed for $10 extra a month. If you didn't have these services you were not eligible to get the speed bump.

Never mind that I had RR since 1998 and digital cable with all the premiums for nearly as long, I didn't count as having two of the services because my digital cable was not their specific package, even though I had all the channels. So I could not get the 10Mbps for $10/month extra. They told me I'd have to get into the specific digital cable plan, which would have added $14 to my bill with the same channels I was getting, as that was their digital special. Add in $10 for the faster speed and I would have had to spend $24/month extra just to go from 7-10Mbps. No way!

I've been a Roadrunner reseller for a few years and decided to bring some of my web services in house about a year and a half ago and sprung for the VO RR account. It costs me about $90 for 15/2 with a static IP and I get business service and support. This works out well for me for my business.

But I think it is insane that here in Tampa they had that requirement. This was two years ago, it may have changed by now. I don't know. But like I said before, anybody faced with this should just go with Virtual Office RR. It is better for gaming if nothing else and a static IP has many advantages (not going to list them but anybody with an ounce of computer knowledge knows why).