 brak22Premium
join:2006-04-13
kudos:1 | [DSL] What happened to the network after the switch to Frontier? Okay, I have tried being patient but now I am about to give up and go to cable which I hate to do.... I live in WV and I had Verizon DSL for seven years and only had one outage, I was also getting 3.2m with Verizon and I am 8k from the c/o. I still live in the same house. The day after Frontier took over my speed dropped to 1.2m, the techs on the phone told me it is because I am on a grandfathered Verizon plan and that if I want my speed fixed I "have" to sign a contract with them which I will not do. (My parents live a block away and their speed dropped the same)
There have been several so called "outages" since Frontier took over but now it is getting more frequent. In the last three months we have had four outages in my area. That is entirely too much!
Is there anything that can be done shy of switching providers? |
 Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:22
 ·Verizon Online DSL
·Frontier Communi..
| Re: [DSL] What happened to the network after the switch to Front What general area are you in? Some members have pointed out outages popping up in some locations. I would post up a traceroute, if possible during a time you're seeing slow speeds so we can see where exactly the slowdown appears to be happening. Might be a common link we're used to seeing on slow lines. |
Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:22 Reviews:
·Verizon Online DSL
·Frontier Communi..
| Running a traceroute is the same way in most operating systems.
For Windows, go to Start > Run and open the program "cmd" . If you have Windows Vista, Windows 7 or are running the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, you should simply search "cmd" in the Start Menu Search Box, or via the Search option in the Metro interface (Win8).
For Mac OS and Unix systems, you simply open up a Terminal window. The location of this varies per distro, but on Macs you can find it in Applications > Utilities. Other distros either have a hotkey for it, an icon at the top menu bar, or in a Utilities/tools folder.
Once in, you can simply enter in tracert www.google.com for example, and press Enter. The Trace will then run.
For Unix systems, use the traceroute command followed by a website, such as www.google.com
To copy and paste the results from a Windows Machine, right click the Command Prompt Window, go to Select All, then press Enter to copy. Then just paste the results into a post here. Unix systems and Macs should have an Edit menu to use unless you've dropped directly to a shell. |
