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 Review by BoomerSooner 
UPDATED: 152 days ago
member for 5.7 years, 3145 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Apache,Caddo,OK
 $79 per month (12 month contract)
 about 3 days
 Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
 "RARE Downtime, FAST speed"
 "Pricey Static IP Plans"
 "HIGHLY recommended"
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Being 25 miles from the nearest "big" city, having any type of DSL is a plus. I've had Pioneer DSL for nearly 5 years now and it's only been down a handful of times in that period. Each and every time, they had us back up and runiing within 24 hours (most of the time within 8 hours). Phone support has always been responsive. They give you that "small town feel' but act like their entire business depends on you, the customer.
Only downside is the static IP plans are a bit pricey. 3 mbps down and 768 kbps up with a Dynamic IP is $49.95. If you want a single static IP, then it jumps to $79.95 a month. Four static IP's is $119.95 and eight is a whopping $149.95.
All in all, I'd have to give them a 4 out of 5. The 1 point taken away because of the price of the static IP plans. If you're not in need of a static IP address, then you'll most likely find them to be a 5/5.
UPDATED 06/27/09 - Pioneer recently informed static IP customers that their IP address was going to change. We received instructions with the new IP address and the timeline. The switch went absolutely FLAWLESSLY. No problem whatsoever other than the usual wait for the new IP adrdress to propogate to other DNS servers. In two days, all was normal. As I stated in my original review, I highly recommend Pioneer for DSL/Internet service in the areas they service.
(NOTE: I had originally posted this a few years ago but recently noticed that I inadvertently posted it to Pioneer Internet out of Kansas. This is meant for Pioneer Telephone Cooperative Inc. based in Kingfisher, OK)
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Review by Jeff Harp
Posted: 7.6 years ago
member for 7.8 years, 34 visits, last login: 1.6 years ago
Dibble,Mcclain,OK
$49 per month (12 month contract)
about 3 days
Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
"Good speed. Up almost all of the time. They post honest reports about their down time on their home page. Friendly install."
"They won't live up to their agreement on billing. I have a contract for automatic billing and can't make them honor it yet."
"Good service. Bad billing technique."
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The actual service has been very good. Up time is very good and they get it fixed quick if it goes down. They supply DSL to small communities that others don't consider worth their time. The bad side is that they haven't lived up to their contract on billing. I signed up for automatic withdrawl and they haven't honored it yet. I have made several trips in to try to get this corrected, but they are not willing to live up to the contract. This is the only bad feature and may only be local in nature. Other than that, I am very pleased with the service.
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Review by kgaskill
Posted: 7.9 years ago
member for 7.9 years, 3 visits, last login: 7.9 years ago
Deer Creek,Grant,OK
$49 per month (12 month contract)
about 2 days
Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
CLEC party: Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
"Excellent speed and reliability of connection, only one outage since I've signed up"
"somewhat pricey"
"connectivity and speed rivals (and sometimes surpasses) what I have available at work"
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It's always fun for me to razz my coworkers about the quality of dialup and now broadband service that I have available in my rural community (pop. 200) compared to what is available in the town we work in (pop 26,000, 1990 census). My rates are a little higher than what they pay, but my connection speeds are first class. I am able to productively work from home when needed and really enjoy watching my grandkids being able to access some of the fun things that are available on the web without the frustration of waiting several minutes for a page to load.
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Review by Casual522
Posted: 8.3 years ago
member for 8.3 years, 16 visits, last login: 8.2 years ago
Aline,Alfalfa,OK
$49 per month (12 month contract)
about 1 days
Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
CLEC party: Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
"Fast Installation. Incredible Speed"
"None"
"A little pricey, but beggars can't be choosers."
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Pioneer was able to install same day.
Using DSLreports speed test shows a download speed of 1200+K.
Pioneer brought DSL to a town with a population of 250 people.
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