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  • Location: Saddle River, Bergen, NJ, USA
  • Cost: $88 per month (24 month contract)
  • Install: about 2 days
EVERYTHING! PRICE, FEATURES, Bundle anddd....PRICE!
Equipment and its software quality is subpar :-/
If you're looking to save more than $100/mo for 90% of the useabilty of another provider...Joo got it, mang.
Pre Sales information:
Install Co-ordination:
Connection Reliability:
Services:
Value for money:

*Figured I'd post up my review under Optimum instead of Cablevision...*

UPDATE 8/26/12: 7 months in, definitely still loving my optimum service. Boxes are horribly slow, but we're used to that by now. Only four months left before I lose/start getting charged for my free DVR and international channels. I'm going to have to think up some BS to renegotiate my bill in December. Besides all that, service has been excellent. No outages, just nice basic digital service. Can't go wrong for the price.

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Ok, only three days into my service, I must say, ALL IS WELL! I initially went shopping for another triple play provider when i realized i was paying around $240/mo with FiOS and Vonage combined and not even watching ANY of my premium movie channels or other services. They gave me the FiOS special of $69.99 for a triple play...which turns out to be around $83 in reality...I gave pre sales information a 4/5 because they didn't mention that i get a free ipod touch with signup...even though its positive news, i still don't like surprises..even good ones Installation scheduling was horrible, the tech was around 7 hours late, but hey, I'm not a CEO so i waited around and had a "I'm saving $150/mo" smile on my face the whole time. I'll update more in the future. The only thing I find annoying so far is that my Optimum.net online account management system is pretty useless to setup if you're not on your home network which you aren't always able to be. Can't go wrong with cablevision. I'm very happy I switched so far.

Happy New Year!!

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UPDATE: Hola, I've had the service for a week now and all is well. Minor things I've already mentioned...your optimum.net account is pretty much useless in every way unless you're on your own home network...except for programming your DVR from anywhere. NO wireless router which I noticed a few days ago....that could be a pain seeing as the good ones are around $80. I changed the ORDER TO SUCCESS date from 7 days to 2 because the remaining 5 days was because of my own scheduling. Their availabilty around the Christmas holiday was amazing. It was me who wasn't available. Blame it on the eggnog I also adjusted my total bill (before taxes) to $88 from 82 because of I don't know what...that's just how much my bill is. We can call it my monthly donation to cablevision. Overall I'm 90% satisfied which is pretty darn good for the money. Cheers. -Shawn

member for 23.1 years, 937 visits, last login: 65 days ago
updated 11.5 years ago


St0ney
join:2001-02-25
uranus

St0ney

Member

OOL

i hope they will expand to the entire nyc area, cause i will order it with no hesitation.

rick_M
@optonline.net

rick_M

Anon

Re: OOL

i've had optimum online for about 2 months now (i'm out in long island, NY) the service has been great i hope nothing ever happends to this connection because i love it, i just did a quick speed test using the dslr tools and i got these results: Your download speed : 4369066 bps, or 4369 kbps.
Browsers would show : about a 533.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 822255 bps, or 822 kbps.
Your connection rocks .. above the 1mbit barrier! .... why would you not get OOL if you could?
rick_M

rick_M to St0ney

Anon

to St0ney
oh yeah, i only pay 35 $ a month for this connection too! (because our monthly cable bill reflects the price we pay for OOL)

hehe
@cloud9.net

hehe to St0ney

Anon

to St0ney
unfortunately impossible. ool is strictly cablevision.
C4Xplosive
join:2002-02-21
Vancouver, WA

C4Xplosive

Member

w00t!!!!!

Congrats yet another happy OOL customer . I wish I had it down here that would be nice. I love reading you happy broadband peoples stories.
Ichijouji
join:2002-03-23
Willingboro, NJ

Ichijouji

Member

I wish...

I wish Optimum Online would cover the Willingboro, NJ area. Comcast is aggravating me with the slow upstream speed they provide, which makes even sending an MP3 file a chore.

TBC1$
join:2000-08-07
Ft Mitchell, KY

TBC1$

Member

Wish OOL were available everywhere !!!!

It would be great to have them here too in Ky, but that isn't going to happen. I used to get the speeds they have at OOL here under @home, but now I have AT&T's backbone supplied by InsightBB. Still pretty good, but nothing like OOL.
DONKEYKONG01
join:2003-03-21
Metairie, LA

DONKEYKONG01

Member

hmm

I'm guessing you're an employee of ool. what's with the perfect rating??:o
Kalphiter
join:2012-06-28
Berkeley, CA

Kalphiter

Member

UL/DL

What are your UL/DL speeds?

shawn744
Premium Member
join:2001-02-16
New Jersey

shawn744

Premium Member

Re: UL/DL

The absolute lowest. I didn't even know until I checked whT they offer. Believe it's 15/2....does the job for me and everyone with all these iOS devices.