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  • Location: Homer, Calhoun, MI, USA
  • Cost: $120 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 5 days
Really nothing as of right now
Now a very good service, cant wait till the new tiers go into effect
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I had residential service through Broadstripe at 15/2 which was really good for gaming, but I was thinking that the business class would be even better for gaming. I was totally wrong. For one I was told by my business sales rep that it was going to be a dedicated line and that no one but me would be using that bandwidth. Second they said that my pings where going to be cut in half because it was a dedicated line with a static ip address. They also said I should never drop below 8/2. I was always below that. So I called support yesterday the 30th and they said they were going to send a tech out today the 31st. Well the tech got here around 12pm and he was done by 12:15pm. He said that everything looks good, which I already knew because I did some looking online on how to check my signal strengths at my modem. As soon as he went out the door I called Broadstripe to switch back to residential service.

May 7, 2011

Well it has been a while since I updated this and tell you the truth it is doing a lot better. My speeds are a lot better and gaming still has some issues with pings and lag, but by what I was told Broadstripe does not support gaming online. I really wish they would take the time to fix some of the problems with there high latencies. Everyone I play online with has 4 bars where I always have 3. All of my friends have Comcast. Oh well I guess one day I will have 4 bars hopefully.

Still doing good.

September, 12 2012

Ever since W.O.W took over my service is doing really well. I cant wait till they start the new 30Mpbs and 50Mpbs tiers.

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hottboiinnc4
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join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH

hottboiinnc4

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3 and 4 bars?

If you're talking about the wireless meter that doesn't count. Which it seems you are. As far as cable Internet - it is DEDICATED as you don't have to "dial-out" to it (like DSL) With Business Class Internet- you normally do get a business class channel on the Node. So the rep wasn't wrong there. As far as the speed reduction- you probably didn't get provisioned for the speed that you thought you signed up for.
Big Hurt
join:2004-02-26
Battle Creek, MI

Big Hurt

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Re: 3 and 4 bars?

I was talking about in game performance. Also cable is not a dedicated line, it shared between the people on that node. Also you dont have to dial out for DSL.