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@frontiernet.net | Ridiculous Modem Rent Buy your own modem. Send theirs back. You still get service but if it turns out to be a modem problem....
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Racerbob
join:2001-06-24
Webster, NY | Re: Ridiculous Modem Rent I do not think that buying my modem would be an option. I am locked into a 2 year deal that guarantees me a certain price and that includes the $3.99 a month for the modem charge. | |
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spewak
R.I.P Dadkins
Premium
join:2001-08-07
Elk Grove, CA | Leaving Frontier? You really left Frontier Maz? | |
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Racerbob
join:2001-06-24
Webster, NY
 ·FrontierNet Intern..
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Re: Leaving Frontier? Yes. For the average customer here in this town, the service is fine. For a part time geek like myself , the service degraded a bit. Tracerts would sometimes be fine, and other times the speed to the first couple of hops would be very high. The folks at Frontier are fine. No problem with them at all. I was let out of my contract also. And now as of yesterday, I am back on Roadrunner. | |
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Racerbob
join:2001-06-24
Webster, NY
·FrontierNet Intern..
·RoadRunner Cable
| Re: Leaving Frontier? Ah...don't feel bad for me. The average customer would not have noticed a thing here wrong with the service. I feel good about the fact that Frontier treated me very well and I get the impression that they are aware of their limitations. They let me out of my contract...no harm, no foul. I am back with RR now and I can only wish that they turn the upload up a bit from the present 384 speed. | |
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join:2008-03-27
| Re: Leaving Frontier? That is kinda slow for some of us  I may try Turbo later, it has 1 mbps upload. It really only matters to send larger files. At my work, there is a 5 meg upload and download, can't say it's better than my RR. | |
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gnm109
join:2003-03-15
Wilton, CA
| Frontier DSL in Rural Area. I've had Frontier DSL for about 5 years. They originally advertised it as 1000/128, When first installed I was getting 3000/300. Recently, I called to see if I could get more speed and greater wireless range for my upstairs computer. A rep came out with a different modem and connected us to a 6000/500 line. Most of the time, I get 4-5000 down and 4-500 up, I can't complain about that, especially since I'm in a rural area and the only other option would be satellite for much more a month.
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| RR Caps Frontier was one of the first providers to announce caps so now you're going back to them? Talk about doing business with the devil.
Also if you didn't know BOTH companies decide against the caps. TWC even posted a letter to all customers on the TWC website. | |
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Racerbob
join:2001-06-24
Webster, NY
·FrontierNet Intern..
·RoadRunner Cable
3 edits | Re: RR Caps Trust me, I have been following this very close. Frontier has no caps right now and neither does Roadrunner. Time Warner is a bigger devil than Frontier in my eyes and the less money that I can send their way the better. If Frontier decides that we use too much bandwidth and shuts me down, we shall go back to the other devil. Right now, for what we do on the net, I do not anticipate that happening. Also, having decent upload speed is something that I have been complaining about for years. The local RR is stuck in the stone age with 384 kb/sec and I am testing over 800 kb/sec with Frontier. The less money that I send Time Warner, the better. Just my little way of letting them know that I am indeed unhappy with them. And ... Frontier is saving me money. When you are on furlough weeks, this is an important thing.
Also, I am firmly convinced now that the issues that I experienced last year were as a result of them trying to pump too much speed my way. After talking to the fellow who stopped by yesterday he said pretty much the same thing.. that with the limitations that are in place with the older lines, etc, that if he tweaked my connection more to get me a bit more download speed that the instability and latency could and would possibly return. | |
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ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| Re: RR Caps No, trust me you're not following it very closely. You don't make sense when giving your review. You left RoadRunner due to they were explorering caps. And when to a company that was one of the first ones to even say anything about it.
Sounds like you want it both ways, and are trying to do to bait and switch for promos. And if you do/are they'll catch on. | |
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