 Review by Seph83 
UPDATED: 163 days ago
member for 5.5 years, 1711 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Blairsville,Union,GA
 $45 per month (12 month contract)
 about 2 days
 "Over 5 years of reliability with 99.99% up-time, downstream speed dead on, no more outsourced reps!!"
 "Upstream isn't over-provisioned like the downstream, they took their time rolling out the faster speeds in my area."
 "Great for being out in the sticks! Yes, there are much faster and cheaper providers, but no one else cares about BFE where I am."
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First ordered Windstream's 1.5mb/256k service back in April of 2003, then upgraded to their 3mb/384k package sometime during 2006, after it finally got approved for my area. Had some latency issues during 2007, which were resolved by Windstream adding Fiber Optic lines to my Remote Terminal. This also qualified me for their 6mb/384k ADSL2, which I have been using for over a year, with excellent latency, perfect up-time, and just a flawless connection.
I ordered Windstream's 12mb/768k package on May 27, 2009 and it was active about 16 hours before the due time given by the phone rep. So far, so great. I'll add to this review in about a month, for a longer term review.
Here's a speed test result with the new package:
Speed Test #72376332 by dslreports.com
Run: 2009-05-29 01:44:48 EST
Download: 12561 (Kbps)
Upload: 611 (Kbps)
In kilobytes per second: 1533.3 down 74.6 up
Tested by server: 190 java
User: 998727 @ dslreports.com
User's DNS: windstream.net
Compared to the average of 80 tests from windstream.net:
* download is 378% better, upload is 88% better
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