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HughesNet: the worst

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:16:33 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author weighmouth - I have seen complaints about Roadrunner, but until you've tried HughesNet, "you ain't seen nothin' yet."This service is unreliable, slow and expensive. It's customer service, if you happen to have a couple of hours to kill, is absurd. In any case most of...

RCN is terrible!

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:17:28 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author polemonium - I've now had RCN cable/phone/internet service in Washington, DC for two weeks. I'm currently experiencing the fourth major outage of all services. The first lasted just over four days. The second and third each lasted a few hours. The current outage is...

EMBARQ High-Speed Internet: Unreliable and pricey

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:42:41 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ctb_ep - Embarq DSL is a high-speed internet connection over a phone line. It's not as fast as cable, but, unless you need extreme speeds, the speed is sufficient. I am able to play games online and download large files in a reasonable amount of time. The...

Qwest ISP (DSL) is only for the occasional Internet users

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:46:26 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author japanmanga2000 - I have had Qwest High Speed DSL Internet Service for over 2 years (my setup is wired instead of wireless). Their fair pricing was attractive at first and I was bound by multi-year contracts since the initial sign-up. It performs fairly well...

Road Runner Fast But Can Be Buggy

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:41:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author buggman - Road Runner internet service. Once upon a time, in a land not that far away... there used to be Adelphia. Adelphia was the ONLY option for high speed internet access in my area & this is what I had to use. Adelphia was greedy, mismanaged...

Cablevision Optimm Online (CT/NY)

Sat, 30 May 2009 15:14:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author popsrocks - I live oin the south shore of Long Island and have used Cablevision for my TV service for many a year. A number of years back I went for their three service package that added both telephone and Internet service to my TV plan. It started at $99 a month...

Most Reliable Internet I've Ever Had

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 06:54:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jibberish18 - Over the years we've had a few different companies install internet in our homes. The first was Comcast. They were an absolute NIGHTMARE! Besides our internet being down every other day (No exxagerations here), the customer service was clueless and...

HughesNet: Horrible Company, horrible internet.

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:07:22 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author higgens01 - We have had hughesnet now for two years. We live in a remote area and really had to choose between hughesnet and dialup, so we did hughesnet because I need reliable internet as I attend a university online. I cannot even count the number of...

Innovative Customer Care

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:15:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Klaxon_Oil - Over View 4.5/5Earth Link is perhaps one of the best cable providers for high speed Internet that I've ever had. Their customer care reacts and can set up an account without even pausing. Being able to have a customer representative...

HughesNet: Hughes Net is a Ripoff!!!!!!!!!!!

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:34:51 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ray123go - Hughes Net is below 100kbs on a regular basis. between 3:00pm and 11:00pm. Stated in fine print they can't garrantee speeds. The customer service is stone age and make you wait 3 days to address a speed issiue. They only allow you 200MB of data a day,...

Qwest ISP: Awful service, never at speed promised

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:02:54 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author kannon33 - I've been using Qwest with their 7MB/sec speed DSL Internet for nearly 7 months now and have only seen then underdeliver on the Internet speed. I live in downtown Seattle and can't get even a fraction of what I was paying for? I see no reason...

The only real alternative to Road Runner

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:14:25 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author erwin1978 - I previously had Time Warner Road Runner service but decided I needed a less expensive access to the internet. Verizon DSL was pretty much my only option. I signed up with them on February. They had the usual promotion of...

Not Reliable and Unprofessinoal Technicians

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:08:49 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author camphansen - If you have lots of time to waste, and only surf the web 2 minutes a week then this is the company for you!I've had charter internet/cable tv HD DVR for 9 months. Installation was a headache as I had to call them every day for 3 weeks to come...

Jump to tier 3...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:12:16 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jbates14760 - Well service ready date was 3 weeks ago. After 3 hours a day on the phone( I work nights) and countless hangups. I have nothing to show. First 2 weeks they said my phone was not active (then how am I calling??), then it was on hold. I got a tip from a...

Reliable, reasonably quick ADSL service

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:58:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author guzmos - I had been a dial-up subscriber for years with many different providers, none of which I was particularly happy with. Dial-up alone is unbearably slow when it comes to downloading even small files or waiting for a page to load. I finally had enough and...

Qwest is the WORST Company I've ever delt with!

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:22:04 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ncody - I've never had so many problems with billing in my life. They continually send bills when we have had service turned off because of moving to a different state where they don't offer service. I moved over 2 months ago and they are still trying to charge...

Extremely poor service

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:57:45 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author esfandb - This conclusion is after a move from one location to another. The service was promised to be setup within 5 to 7 business day. The actual down time was 18 days. The tech supports are responding from Manila, Philipines, and have no idea about the details...

NetZero: Horrible

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:00:59 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mmbcstu - I signed up thinking it was a good price but not so good when you get kicked off every few minouts. They said it was my coumputer but I had never had issues in the past or after getting rid of netzero. Second its impossible to cancel. I cancelled the...

Good ISP

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:12:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author addy589 - We've had Earthlink high speed cable internet service for four years and six months. When we got Earthlink on 11/11/04 we took the base line high speed internet access package for $44.95 a month. The speed was 3Mbps down, 512Kbps up. Speeds were not...

CoreComm's sad decline--abandon ship!

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:00:44 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blaskette - Our ISP from way back in 1995 was acquired by various others over the years, ultimately by CoreComm. We should have dropped it a decade ago, but hated to think of dealing with changing our email addresses, and our foot-dragging has now cost us in...

ROADRUNNER

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:49:48 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author bvin2k - Roadrunner sucks!! It was working fine since 4-5 months suddenly yesterday it stopped working. I called up customer support and it was 1 hour before I hung up waiting for some representative to answer me.I am in a soup as there is no help from them. I am...

HighStream.net: Highstream.. LESS THEN

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:44:07 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author luckyc - After paying for 5 yrs plus for my sister in-laws Internet service, I was really put out that when she got a new computer with Vista on it, that not only could they not help her with the Internet connection, but that their Tech service people yelled at...

Questionable Customer Service at best

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:18:32 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author thawk37 - One man's experience but I have had trouble with Qwest at EVERY single step along the way. If my current apt was wired for cable internet I would switch immediately. 1) I began with Internet Service ONLY and was sold on a very attractive 6 month...

Come Inside & Learn How To Get America Online AOL Totally FREE

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:40:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pablothegreat - I signed up with America Online for my internet provider since everyone I knew seemed to have it. At this point, I did not know about high speed internet h
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Verizon DSL Support Is Virtually Non-Existent

Mon, 26 May 2008 03:19:45 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ndl44 - NOTE: THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT VERIZON DSL SUPPORT AND NOT ABOUT THE DSL CONNECTION - WHICH IS QUITE GOOD. I could go on, as some reviewers have, with long tales of nightmarish conversations with off-shore support centers reading scripts and never...