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[prog]

Any of my fellow Somervudlians use Comcast for broadband? D'ya like it? Do you know what TCP ports they block?

They've got a $20/month special going on now for new subscribers. Of course that's only good for six months, and they do a good job of not noting on their website what it reverts to after that. Still quite tempting, since I just learned that downgrading my RCN will still cost me $60/month for broadband alone. It's better than the $90 I pay now, but...

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Ordered a copy of Alton Brown's classic I'm Just Here for the Food yesterday. When I scratched out a budget a couple of days ago, I concluded that food was the slippiest variable, and the one I can carve the most out of. Currently I spend -- ulp -- probably around $600 a month on everything I eat and drink, because I buy no groceries and do no cooking. (Sometimes I brew my own coffee, or shamefully browse the "a la carte" thing of colorless microwavable nuggetoids at Shaw's with the other pathetic bachelors, but that's it.)

So, yes, I'm gonna turn this around. I think $400 is a good target number to shoot for, and conversations I've had in the last couple of days suggest that I can make it a lot lower than that if I start getting good.

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[lediva.livejournal.com]

*raises hand re: Comcast*

Works well enough for my purposes (i.e. four-way shared net usage, and a few services (FTP, VNC, web)). I've got the cable modem run into a wireless router.

I've got their combo package with digital cable, so it works out to ~$45/month.

[prog.livejournal.com]

You're saying you manage to run those services from your Comcast-connected computers? That's a good thing...

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Yup, FTP and VNC are running on my desktop, web is on a roommate's desktop, and all the computers are sitting behind a wireless router.