edamon
join:2001-05-18
Marina Del Rey, CA | [Cyberonic] Cyberonic email is WORTHLESS their pop and smtp servers have done nothing but timeout for a week now.
luckly i have my own domain for incoming mail, but I've since had to setup my own smtp server.
Tech support never picks up either. |
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HAL6664
join:2003-01-15
Beverly Hills, CA | It's tremendously over-subscribed. The must have the same moron managing the mail server as the news server.
»How many subs do we think Cyberonic has? |
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 MPScanPremium
join:2001-08-24
Boston, MA | reply to edamon
Somehow I don't doubt that it's the same person. Hell, they're probably the sales & marketing department too.  |
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 jonescod
join:2001-02-14
Commerce Township, MI | reply to edamon
Ditto - time to reconsider my choice of ISP I got through to tech support on this chronic issue and the tech said the email server was just fine on his end.
He then referred me to Cyberonic's Webmail at
www.cyberonic.com/webmail
where I could retrieve and send email.
Even the webmail is slow and I prefer using Outlook Express for email since it has more graphic arts tools.
This ongoing problem is such an irritation that I'm now happy I didn't prepay 18 months for a lower rate and am seriously considering going with another ISP. |
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Re: [Cyberonic] Cyberonic email is WORTHLESS said by edamon:
their pop and smtp servers have done nothing but timeout for a week now.
luckly i have my own domain for incoming mail, but I've since had to setup my own smtp server.
Tech support never picks up either.
Everything sucks about Cyberonic (e.g., mail/NNTP/web servers, tech support replying to email, etc.) except their connectivity (basically pure UUNet).
Luckily, I don't need any of the above stuff. Just give me a big fat pipe with no silly restrictions and I'm OK. |
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| Correct.
Don't go with Cyberonic for email or for news or for hand-holding.
If those are some of your main requirements, go elsewhere.
Cyberonic is best for people who want the best DSL connectivity there is, and will probably bring their own ISP-type services. |
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HooperPremium
join:2001-10-22
Villanova, PA | reply to edamon
Honestly. Running your own email server is not very difficult and requires minimal hardware requirements. If you don't have a free box lying around the house, scrounge and old pc from work or a friend for a couple of bucks.
I know I would be very willing to step you through the whole process if need be. The best thing is you can have your own custom domain name(s) for your account and you can keep it for life -- independent of who your isp is. Or you can just get it hosted. GoDaddy offers email hosting starting at $9.95 a YEAR. That's about 3 CENTS a day. |
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| complain....complain....complain
I really dont understand you people...
this has been stated countless time before...this is a barebones ISP
You get great a very good conection at a very low price and that is about it
Setup your own email server using your won domain (gd they are so cheap anyway)....
here is a simple site that will make it very easy
»rhems.sourceforge.net/rhems.htm
just follow the directions and you will be up in no time with a full email server and webmail
while you are it you probably will want a firewall also ...
»ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome
OR
www.astaro.org
I use astaro and it simply rules
(by the way both are free)
Now get off your lazy duff find some old machines and do something more productive than simply complaining in these forums
laters
peeps
asher |
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| I noticed that over the past month the mail servers were very slow, I called them earlier this week and they said this is due to a large number of new subscribers in a short time and they are doing significant upgrades by end of this week. I noticed that email servers were very slow yesterday, but are much faster today. I don't know if they have fully completed the upgrades.
-gary |
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HAL6664
join:2003-01-15
Beverly Hills, CA | Slow yesterday ? That would be the understatement of the year.  |
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Not anymore! Today it is working great. I sent an e-mail with a 6MB attachment and it went smooth as butter. 6MB translates into about 9.5MB in attachment size for the e-mail server. The actual attachment doesn't change but there is a lot of overhead on something that size.
Anyway, it's working really well. |
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| Ross, just curious, why are you posting comment about Cyberonic Email server when your review shows that you are with Digizip? Did you recently change ISP and haven't update your review? |
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| Got them both. Both working nicely.
I can't remember if I wrote a review of Cyberonic. I got them first, so I might have. Guess I'll have to go look. |
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