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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:06 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>[speed/latency] Terrible Speed at Night</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every evening at about 5:00 pm my Fairpoint DSL speed drops from my daily average of 6Mbps to 1.5 or less and stays at that speed till about midnight. This has been going on since November. I have made nearly a hundred calls to Fairpoint regarding this, I have even called people in upper management and the problem remains.
I have had several Fairpoint techs come to my house, they have tested our wiring and they have all said that it was a problem with the network. DUH!
They have supposedly changed equipment at the local switch facility to no avail.
I am so frustrated by this that I am considering changing service to Comcast.
Is anyone else in Vermont having this same problem?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-01 12:36:09</pubDate>
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<title>[speed/latency] Speeds slow on 30/15 connection NH/ME</title>
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<description><![CDATA[First off reply with your speed test and the class of service you have in NH and ME please

Issue again.  I will leak here that Fairpoint is on the eve of a major financial meltdown, thus they have leaks in their service.  

For the past 6 months I have track 37 issue of slow speed that lasted 4 hours or less.  Each time its a different issue, but the diagnosis is always the same.

During normal speeds the service has a route that takes it through the Verizon bandwidth space in Mass.

During times of "slow speeds", it takes a different path outside the Verizon space in Mass.  

I have done some digging and not going to say exactly, but my opinion on the subject is that Fairpoint is not paying the bills on time forcing clients to be placed on a 3 class network pipe that is small and sharing this bandwidth with everyone in NH,ME and MA.

I loved the one excuse about a fire at a sub station in NYC.  What does NYC have to do with BOSTON when the traffic routes locally do not touch NYC with speed tests to speedtest.net in Manchester.

I continue to pound out results, and working as a consultant for companies, I recommend comcast or bayring where at all possible.  I cringe everytime I see a fairpoint connection.

I don't even know why I still have them.  My comcast has only gone out once and that was during the ice storm.

I am on hold  now 27 minutes on the first line and the just answered.. now they are not saying there is an issue.. "I would open up a service request and dispatch a tech".. uh no.. Seabrook NH is having the same problem as is Portsmouth NH.  I am not an idiot.  

Once I can get clad proof from a reliable source at Verizon, I am going to go to press with this issue and I want others to support me.

Please post your speed tests here!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-01-01 21:43:32</pubDate>
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<title>[connectivity] Ongoing PPP Disconnects With My DSL</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every day my PPP disconnects randomly at least once a day, but up to 5 times per day. The DSL link remains connected, but the Internet Status says Not Connected, and the error is listed as PPP down. This has been going on for years, and Fairpoint has tried to fix it numerous times with no luck. It always seems to be a problem with the PPP connection, not the DSL link.

Here are my transceiver stats:
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec)&#9;3360&#9;864
Margin (dB)&#9;10.1&#9;11.0
Line Attenuation (dB)&#9;49.0&#9;24.5
Transmit Power (dBm)&#9;15.0&#9;11.9

I checked the System Logs on the modem, and a PPP timeout seems to be part of the issue.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-01-31 09:35:36</pubDate>
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