I missed the 'free' part of the title...No part of TWC is free.
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Originally Posted by jsowers
My phone company offers cable and broadband internet and phone, but not for free. It's called Windstream and they bought out the local telco, an independent company that already had a good cable TV option covering about half of the county, so they continued it.
I switched to their cable a year ago, from having Time-Warner cable for 25 years, and haven't regretted it one bit. These people know how to do it and it's much better in every way than Time-Warner cable. They still offer analog cable with digital local channels including the sub-channels. No box required and it works with my old TVs.
I didn't opt for the cable modem phone line since it didn't work in a power outage and also probably wouldn't work with rotary phones, which I still use. I kept my POTS line. I told someone I got the "grampaw" package.
What they did do for free was install it, including burying a new line from the pole to the back of my house. My picture is much better and more reliable than Time-Warner and they have enough sense not to put the digital channels on the same channel number as over the air. With Time-Warner, the channels fought and sometimes I had TWO channels with the same number.
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You are lucky to still have analog cable. TWC killed that here this summer, and I believe they were the last analog TV holdout in my area.
Service is pretty good, but the digital changeover instituted some things that don't sit well with me.
Surprisingly the cable modem/phone service box works great with rotary dial phones. Me and a friend, have the same service with different model phone modems, and both support rotary dialing and have the oomph to drive at least 3 ringers easily.
My modem has a connector for a rechargeable back up battery, but no battery, so my solution to outages is to connect the modem power cord to the same cheap Uninteruptable-Power-Supply (battery powered AC backup system) the main computer is powered through. If the computer is on I have 30 minutes of modem operation, MUCH more if the computer is off.
Having a cell phone (essential for road emergencies/leaving home IMO) makes a %100 reliable landline unnecessary anyway.