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Review by oldblargger 
UPDATED: 57 days ago
member for 57 days, 3 visits, last login: 39 days ago
 Seattle,King,WA
 $100 per month
 "Helpful to have additional technical support, not always have to talk to Qwest"
 "Have gone downhill since changed to Avvanta"
 "Not the same company as Blarg, no longer worth the premium they demand"
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I have been with Avvanta since their early days as Blarg. They used to be a premium ISP -- one run by sysadmins who knew their stuff -- but I have watched their service steadily go downhill since the name change.
For years, things have been getting worse with Avvanta, with outages, slow speeds, and other annoyances. The last straw was when I noticed my speeds on a 7Mb premium line were down around 2Mb. They did not notice the problem -- I had to report it -- and they were unable to resolve it. I finally just dropped Avvanta and switched to Comcast.
Avvanta used to be good enough to deserve the premium they charge, but no longer. I cannot recommend Avvanta/Blarg anymore.
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Review by K7AAY
Posted: 2.9 years ago
member for 2.9 years, 0 visits, last login: 2.9 years ago
Portland,Clackamas,OR
Contract price not specified.
 Qwest
CLEC party: Qwest
"When they're open, tech support is good"
"Down, hard, since 12-14 with no explanation: No phone service even!"
"Looking for a new ISP"
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Been using Avvanta since they were Blarg.
On 12-14, their service went down, and have not come back up.
Not even an explanatory web page, which could easily be hosted elsewhere.
Their phones don't work, either.
I expect an ISP to be able to tell its customers when it's down for an extended time, and why. Redundancy and multi-homed connections is such a basic precept of the Internet that's it's a shock when an ISP fails to provide even basic service to its customers so dramatically.
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