internet service providers (ISP) in Sheridan, WY

Ron, Here is the math per month: Old Cable Bill (TV, Phone, Internet) -180 approx New Visionary Internet +60 approx Ported Phone to Verizon +20 Broadcast TV (8 channels) + 0 Netflix +10 Total Savings per month $90 approximately I also have Amazon Prime Streaming which costs $99 per years but I bought it mainly for the "free" two day shipping so I did not account for it above. I do occassionally watch Prime but mostly Netflix. There were some one-time charges and costs. The TV antenna and coax cost about $90 and took some work to install. The port to Verizon cost about $60. And the Roku for Netflix cost about $90 although I already had it. The monthly savings will result in a very quick payback. I should have recouped all of this in 3 or 4 months. I am not saving anything significant on the phone vs cable but in two years I will be able to port that Verizon number to Google Voice and it will then be free. Google charges $20 one-time for the port but after that it is free. If you want it to ring like a landline there is some VOIP equipment to buy but if you want you can have it just ring to your Smart Phone at no additional cost. Everybody I care to have call me knows my cell phone number but I still want to keep my old home number because while 90% of the time when it rings, it is somebody I don't want to talk to, just occasionally I get an important call. I just want the price of keeping that number to be free. When I dumped CableTV I lost Fox News and about 250 other channels that I could not care less about. I miss Fox, I know a lot of people who would miss ESPN or other sports channels. There is a crappy Fox News Channel on my Roku that gives me the highlight clips of their shows for the day but no continuous live stream. There are various pirated live streams of Fox on the Internet. They are hard to find, unreliable, low resolution, cut-out occassionally, are littered with commercials on top of the Fox commercials. But they do provide the occasional Fox fix and I can stream them to my TV with some ingenuity. Usually I find them more trouble then they are worth. I don't think Satellite carries Fox so cable is the only choice if you want it. For me, Fox News was costing $90 per month and while I like it, it was not worth that much. For $20/month there is an Internet streaming service called SlingTV that provide about 20 of the traditional basic cable channels (CNN, TNT, TBS, DIsney, ESPN, ESPN2 and others) but no Fox News. I would pay for that if it had Fox News. It is a good value compared to Cable TV. You can watch it on a Roku. If the Cable company would allow me to buy the channels I wanted ala carte or in small packages without all the crappy fluff channels at a reasonable price (Fox News = $5/month), I would still be a cable customer. Their Internet service was perfectly good and I could have kept it but I am happy with Visionary. Their phone service was fine too. I just wanted to get on a path where I could eventually port it to Google Voice and Google won't port a landline for some reason. And I just got tired of the upwards price creep. Overall, I am very pleased that I have cut the cable.

Hi Sarah, with regard to Century Link, the speed of their Internet varies by neighborhood. In some parts of town they might offer upto 30Mbs and in other parts of town it is slower like maybe 5 Mbs or 12 Mbs. It depends on how old the phone wiring is in your neighborhood. You can check what speed is available at your home by going to their website and putting in your address. Netflix says that you need minimum 5 Mbs to stream in HD. I would recommend nothing less than 10 Mbs for an Internet connection with Netflix as the Internet slows down and the stated speed is a maximum, not a constant. I would agree that Century Link is the cheapest. They usually quote a one-year contract and a two-year contract. The one-year price is cheaper but then after one year it goes up a LOT when you go to a month to month basis. I think they let you renew but you have to remember to do that (check with them to verify that last statement because I am not certain). The two-year contract is maybe a better deal.

Visionary Communications now offers up to 50 m/5 m on our wireless service!! Please give our office a call to see if you qaulify! Each location needs to be checked for clear line of sight to one of our towers and for signal strength. 307.674.4923

I live above and south of the old Woodland Park School. We are getting reliable and very fast wireless Internet from Visionary. They are in the process of upgrading to 50 MBPS so they will be pretty close to as fast as Charter. Great service too. Mike Sisson is really nice.

I think I pay $60 and it is a two year contract. I believe that is about the same price as Charter if you buy just Internet from Charter without bundling phone and TV. Charter advertises a cheaper rate but it is promotional and does not last. After a while it starts to seem like your cable bill goes up a few dollars every month. I finally dumped Charter when my combined TV, Phone and Internet bill started pushing $180 per month. I ported the phone number to my Verizon account which is costing me an additional $20 per month and after the 2 year contract I can port it to Google Voice which will cost me $0 per month (For some reason Google won't port a landline number but will port a cellular number. There is a smarter way to go about porting the phone to Google that doesn't take two years but I did not figure it out until after I had signed up with Verizon.) I dumped the cable TV and put up an antenna and now I get 8 local channels. I already had Amazon Prime and Netflix so I have plenty of TV programming and the only thing I miss is Fox News and it certainly is not worth the approximately $90 per month that I am saving.

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