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Review by Rstroup99 
Posted: 3.2 years ago
member for 7.2 years, 151 visits, last login: 294 days ago
 Jackson,Cape Girardeau,MO
 Contract price not specified.
 "Extremely fast, good service, haven't experienced any down time in over 2 years"
 "None that I can think of at the moment"
 "They've changed alot over the years so old reviews may not apply anymore."
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Okay, let me just paraphrase a little for you. We moved out to the Fruitlant area back in May of '04 and signed up with SEMO cable internet (aka CableRocket). It only took them a couple of days to get out here, the guy knew what he was doing when he installed it with our router, so overall we were pleased. However, we started out paying $60.00 a month for 1.5mbps. A little expensive for 1.5mbps but that's all that was available unless we wanted something slower. At first we would have ocassional outages, mostly during thunderstorms.
Early spring of 2005 we had a lightning strike very close to our house and it killed some stuff including our modem and router. They had a guy at our doorstep the next afternoon and he simply replaced the modem and we were all set to go.
Last summer they lowered their rates and we were only paying $50.00 a month. A little better, that's what we were paying when he had DSL in Jackson. However, by this time, more people out here were getting cable internet. Since with cable you share a node with other users, the more people that are using the internet, the slower it is. I do frequent speed tests and there were some nights we'd get as low as 70kbps. It was very frustrating. By winter of 2005 they had lowered rates again to $40.00 a month.
About a month ago, we found out they were upping everyone's speeds but keeping rates the same. This is good news! Just this week they upped our speed and we're running an average of about 5.3mbps. I ran a test during the day when everyone is at work and I got an average of 5.9mbps. On a really busy night (like last night) it can get down to around 4.0mbps. But, you honestly cannot tell that big of a difference between 4.0 and 5.9 mbps.
So here's the deal. The older reviews below really don't apply anymore. SEMO cable is changing and for the better. Personally I am proud to be a member.
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