Review by JBrown07 
Posted: 222 days ago
member for 277 days, 211 visits, last login: 20 days ago
 Wayne,Wayne,WV
 $19 per month (24 month contract)
 "None I have seen yet"
 "Up and down speeds"
 "Makes Suddenlink Communications look like gold."
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I actually don't have Frontier as my main Internet provider, my aunt does but I have been involved in every step of the process.
She got the DSL Internet as part of a promotion for a computer. Nice computer, but where is the Internet?
She has the "High Speed Internet Max" plain for $19.99/month with a 24 month contract. I have no clue what the actual download/upload speeds are since they are not listed on the bill.
The one thing about Frontier is they advertise their DSL Internet as a great alternative to cable and that it is lighting fast. I have barely seen the "lighting fast" Internet they claim to have.
The speeds bounce from 300 kb, 500 kb 1 MB or 3 MB (the fastest I have seen) mostly out of all the tests I have done the range that is most constant is 500-700 kb.
Upload is constant in all tests being around 364 kb, give or take a few KB.
When I actually called about their Internet service for my area as I was looking to ditch Suddenlink the max speed the CSR told me was 1 MB in my area, and they were rolling out a 3 MB speed in some areas.
Now this and the fact that my aunt's connection is slower than the 1.5 MB connection through Suddenlink turned me off of ditching Suddenlink.
I have used this Internet at my aunt's house just as much as my own and I must say that Suddenlink is reliable, constant 90% of the time.
So if your in the Wayne, WV area I recommend Suddenlink over Frontier.
Followup comments:  jsaindon
join:2008-01-29
Argonne, WI
| STAY AWAY In norther WI Frontier seems to be unreliable more times than it is reliable. If your main pc use is peak hours (5pm-9pm CST) good luck. I hope you have a better route than me. Online gaming is almost unbearable anymore. They were liveable for a while(still low speeds but liveable) but now it has just been bogged down to speeds barely faster than dialup during the peak hours. Upload cuts to under 5 Kb which makes online gaming non-existent. I doubt it is my hardware since at about 9:30 or 10 pm it is all of a sudden better and speeds come back to their normal rate (not their advertised speed mind you, but liveable again). I don't know what speeds are during the day since I am at work, but the time that I use the internet I might as well just use dialup cause thats how slow it is. maybe 2x faster. | |
|  | JBrown07
join:2007-11-26
Wayne, WV | Re: STAY AWAY I just noticed this, sorry mate. I have compared both side by side and even though Suddenlink has high pings lately during peak hours Frontier still performs worse. I hope Verzion gobbles up Frontier and fixes it up. | |
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