I wanted to tell you guys about my situation and maybe hear if this situation makes sense to you.

- I am paying $60 for 4Mb of internet speed.

- My contract expired and I went to renew the thing and they told me I could make a new contract for 5Mb for $40.

- I didn't renew the contract then but went back another day to the ISP place to renew and they ASSURED me that:

1) 5Mb wouldn't reach my area

2) If I make a new contract with the new offer - 5Mb for $40 - (which is an improvement from what I have) I could possibly receive less internet speed meaning if I pay for a 5Mb internet speed I would end up receiving less than what I actually have right now.

Does this make sense to you guys?

Is this possible? I think they are just trying to bullshit me.

Do you think there's a chance they just want to keep me paying more money for less internet speed?

Thanks guys.

Doesn't make much sense to me. Unless there's a bizarre technical reason why that might be the case, I suspect they're trying to fool you in one way or another. Of course the fooling part could simply be about the speed decreasing, not about 5 Mbps not reaching your area.

Exactly!

There are rural parts in my country where their internet signal could have problems, but not my area. If the internet speed of 4Mb reaches here, why would adding 1Mb more fuck everything up?

That is what I need to understand, to understand if there's a reasonable and technical explanation.

Thanks for giving your input. :)

Holy moley 5Mbs!

It hardly seems worth the bother to move up from 4 Mbs to 5Mbs, if you can renew at 4Mbs for $40 then you might as well do that, but you should be eligible for a "free" upgrade to a higher speed if / when it becomes available.

I was on something like 20Mbs 500GB the last time I asked for an upgrade, and then some months later I got auto upgraded to 100Mbs unlimited simply because their pricing changed and the price I was paying was the new 100Mbs unlimited package. Damn it was so sweet downloading 30GB of The Witcher 3 in just a couple of hours, when not long ago it would have taken an entire day or more to do that.

Can you shop around for a different ISP or are you stuck with the one service?

The situation is that the ISP I am doing business with is the one that has the infrastructure. I've been told other companies have issues and even offer service by borrowing antennas from my ISP.

Maybe I should try them on my own though, and see how they go.

I think I should fight for a reduction in the monthly fee like you say.

This all sounds why too sketchy.