 SaBo7Ge
join:2003-03-12
US
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February 24th, @09:56AM
| Maybe I'm just uninformed Can someone clue me in never heard of zoomtown? 
Edit:Link's coming up dead
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 | Flizesh
Premium
join:2003-08-16
Staten Island, NY
clubs: | Re: Maybe I'm just uninformed ha! I'm guessing they're a DSL co. Excellent. | |
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IGGY
No Guru Just Here To Help
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL
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February 24th, @10:20AM
| »www.cincinnatibell.com/zoomtown/
Cincinnati Bell DSL. many Insightbb users in the Kentucky area might benefit from this I think.
Didn't see the other post below that already gave you your answer = ooopz.:o | |
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JE
Can I Taste It? Mmmm
Premium
join:2000-12-15
Brooklyn, NY | It's The Nati! Cincinnati Bell! That's who zoomtown is.
JE | |
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| schmattie
join:2003-07-20
Florence, KY
| Re: It's The Nati! said by JE  :
It's the Nati!
LOL I alaways laugh when i hear that.
Have Zoomtown got upgrade to 3.0/768 on 02/19/04 for $41.95/month. | |
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Biggies
join:2002-12-05
Chicago, IL | hmmm wonder if this will trickle to the rest of sbc-land. | |
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Hall
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
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February 24th, @10:58AM
| Re: hmmm said by Biggies :
wonder if this will trickle to the rest of sbc-land.
It has NOTHING to do with SBC...
They are a regional ILEC in the Cincinnati OH/Northern Kentucky area. This only applies to people who's phone company is already Cincinnati Bell. Kinda like a new offering from BellSouth doesn't mean squat to me.  It won't mean much to many people around here. One thing I've noticed about Cincinnati Bell/Zoomtown, they seem to have their sh*t straight. You hardly ever see complaints about their service. They're # 3 on DSLR's "Good, Bad, Ugly" listing for National ISPs/Telco ADSL...
DSLR's info on them: »Company entry - Cincinnati Bell | |
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Shrapnel64
Premium
join:2001-01-24
Hayes, VA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·Cox HSI
| Damn... Hello Verizon? Can we offer this too?! Oh wait...that's probably only going to be offered to those within the first 3,000ft of a CO...lol.
Anyway, it would be nice to see...seems Zoomtown is listening to the customers...now why can't you do this? | |
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CPM
join:2001-08-24
Miami, FL | Re: Damn... I am within 3000ft from my CO WOohoo Come to Momma | |
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GNXPower
Got Boost?
Premium
join:2003-12-18
Huntington Beach, CA | Re: Damn... Me too...come on VZ! | |
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Hall
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
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February 24th, @10:20AM
| Cincinnati Bell part of SBC ?? Hmmm.... "Zoomtown is Cincinnati Bell, by the way. Part of the SBC group."
Since when ?? Where is this information from ?? They are a private company, not part of some bigger one:
About Cincinnati Bell Inc.
Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE: CBB) is parent to one of the nation’s most respected and best performing local exchange and wireless providers with a legacy of unparalleled customer service excellence. The company was recently ranked number one in customer satisfaction, for the third year in a row, by J.D. Power and Associates for residential long distance among mainstream users. Cincinnati Bell provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services to residential and business customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Cincinnati Bell is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information, visit www.cincinnatibell.com. | |
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| wentlanc
You Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH
| Re: Cincinnati Bell part of SBC ?? Hmmm.... And I have to agree with JD Powers to most of these points. The service offering is excellent on all platforms. Where else can you get Residential service, cell, and DSL all for under $95 a month? And that is 30 minutes of LD a month on the residential and something like 5 cents a minute after. And 500 minutes a month on the cell with unlimited nights, weekends, and LD. Now stack on 3Mb down and 768k up on the DSL. Can't beat 'em.
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justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY | sigh, sorry.
I was thinking of that other weeny part of SBC, the one in vegas? | |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | Re: Cincinnati Bell part of SBC ?? Hmmm.... You mean Nevada bell? | |
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justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY | Re: Cincinnati Bell part of SBC ?? Hmmm.... yeah them | |
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Microhard
join:2001-08-03
Huntington Beach, CA | Re: Cincinnati Bell part of SBC ?? Hmmm.... Heh....dogs having a conversation...sweet. | |
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insomniac
Oh Yeah
Premium
join:2002-09-22
Naperville, IL
clubs:
·AT&T Midwest
| Nice deal. $50 for 3.0/768 with a static IP? What a deal! The only providers I know that give those speeds and a static IP run about $100/month for a package like that.
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If everything seems to be going well, you've obviously overlooked something. | |
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jethrogump
Premium
join:2001-03-02
Mesquite, TX
| Brokewing This was all part of that great company Broadwing known in the industry as Brokewing I believe.
CINCINNATI -- April 29, 2003 -- Broadwing Inc. (NYSE:BRW) today announced at its Annual Shareholders meeting that the company will return its corporate name to Cincinnati Bell Inc. and adopt the NYSE ticker symbol CBB.
Brokewing has a great backbone and they were at one time a great little company hopefully they will return to being their former self as CBB again. | |
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wentlanc
You Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH
| Just waiting!!! As has been said, Zoomtown is the Internet provider owned by Cincinnati Bell. I'm waiting for my upgrade to arrive. It is the best deal going today as far as I know. Especially since there are many ares of Cincinnati whose only alternative is Adelphia and their Powerlink crap. I have not had cable internet available to me in over 3 years because Adelphia sucks, and Time Warner is nowhere in sight.
Another perk is that I get a corporate discount through my company. So my access is actually $34.95 a month.
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yock
The Internet Is For Porn
Premium
join:2000-11-21
Fairfield, OH
| It would figure... ...that less than a month after I get a new apartment that they would upgrade the network, and don't forget that Zoomtown isn't available in my area. Oh well, It's great that they have stepped up to the plate after letting Roadrunner walk all over them for 3+ years in Cincinnati. Maybe we'll see some much needed advancement in broadband technology in Southwest Ohio. | |
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| wentlanc
You Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | Re: It would figure... Yeah, I believe that most of the North and Northwestern areas outside the city are serviced by Sprint. Although, I have a coworker who has Sprint SDSL at 1.5 with a static IP for $50 a month. That's still pretty good too.
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yock
The Internet Is For Porn
Premium
join:2000-11-21
Fairfield, OH | Re: It would figure... I did place myself on the waiting list. Hopefully if this incites more people to show interest in non-serviced areas.
/me croses fingers | |
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rjbasye
join:2000-05-24
Dry Ridge, KY
 ·Packet8
| Can't get it here I'm in an area served by Cincinnati Bell but I am 4 miles from the nearest CO. There are some people within Cincinnati Bells service area who can't get Zoomtown. I do have InsightBB,who lately has dropped the ball and is letting its competitors get ahead of them. I just wish Cincinnati Bell was competing against them where I live. | |
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Potto
Premium
join:2001-08-22
Westerville, OH
| Re: Can't get it here Cinci Bell is a great local company. My friends in cinci like them. I had a cinci bell cell phone at one time....I loved it. 30bucks a month got me 430min a month with free long distance and roaming. The other good thing was their customer service. They overbilled me one month by 1.99 for a text messaging service I never ordered. In return they gave me a free month, free text messaging and free plantinum voice mail.
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DeathK
Premium
join:2002-06-16
Cincinnati, OH
| Still waiting... I'm still waiting for my upgrade. Hopefully it'll happen sometime this week. No more waiting.. I want mah speed!! 
»Zoomtown Upgrade! | |
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killa2712
@fuse.net
| Re: Still waiting... If you havn't noticed they have upgraded all lines to 1.5 while they continue to upgrade their network. I just came from 768k to 1.5mbps and WOW!!! Now I can't wait to see what 3mbps looks like Go CBB!!! | |
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DeathK
Premium
join:2002-06-16
Cincinnati, OH | Re: Still waiting... Didn't realize they were doing that. I'm still only training at 768. At least my upload is training at 544 instead of the advertised 384. Actually, the upload speed for me has been that fast for quite a while now. | |
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join:2004-02-24
Hamilton, OH | Re: Still waiting... Well maybe its just my area don't know | |
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join:2004-01-23
Florence, KY
| Re: Still waiting... I for one am not impressed thus far.
I swithced from a real 3Mb download speed via InsightBB to this and so far can only get less than 1Mb down and about 500Kbs up. I am spoiled in the sense that with Cable I got what close to what the promised speed was and I do not see the benefit in getting the extra few up K's when I lost over 2Mb in dl speed.
And what was really annoying was being told that I should be happy with it. I hope Cincy Bell DSL subscribers aren't just getting along with sub-par speeds all over. I know my buddy gets close to the advertised speeds, so thats what I expect too.
Fingers crossed hoping something gets resolved and I am surfing the net via DSL.
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phil2k
@fuse.net | Re: Still waiting... hey anyone with the 3mbit upgrade could u tell me how far u r away from the co? i am 10,000-11,000 ft away is that too far? | |
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DeathK
Premium
join:2002-06-16
Cincinnati, OH
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March 1st, @12:24AM
| Re: Still waiting... Well, I think they might finally be in the process of upgrading my connection. I'm getting some erratic behavior while trying to train the router. My download speed is still training at 768kbps, but my upload speed started training at 680kbps a few minutes ago. Now my upload speed is trained at 952kbps? LOL!
Yep, looks like the upload speed just got upgraded so far. Did a test to the Speakeasy server and my results are:
Your download speed : 537516 bps, or 537 kbps.
A 65.6 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 784775 bps, or 784 kbps.
»/speedtests/53···78118566
Nice!!! | |
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phil2k
@fuse.net | Re: Still waiting... i haven't gotten any upgrades yet i am at 1303/703 still. but i might be 16,000 feet from the co. | |
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DeathK
Premium
join:2002-06-16
Cincinnati, OH | Re: Still waiting... It's the morning and it looks like the download is still only 768kbps. I guess I'll have to give 'em a call if it isn't fixed soon. | |
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join:2004-03-09
Newport, KY
| Re: I wish I was Still waiting... I got the update and didn't know it. I guess I don't have Zoomtown posting to the correct e-mail address.
Started up the Cisco commander and saw my cisco was trained at around 500 and 1200 which I was 780+ and 1600+ (have always been over 768/1500 for some reason.
So with this 500 and 1200 I powered the cisco off for 2 minutes and pulled it back on and got about the same thing. I did this a couple more times and got a measley 900 and 1900 twice. I've not been able to reach that again.
Anyone else seeing their cisco's train up wrong?
I called Tech Support and they said "Line Conditions"...hmm...I guess a squirrel got in there and started chewing on my lines in the last 2 weeks. LOL
Dunno..it bothers me to know that I've been paying the Top Speed 768/1500 while some other guys have been paying for the low end all this time..and now they are faster than me and have spent less many over all.
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