Adelphia sucks!
cron...@gmail.com
Am I the only one who was been having major problems with Adelphia
(Internet service)? I been having *lots* of prolonged downtimes, I am
losing packets (pinging www.yahoo.com) all day long (about 1%
throughout the day) and from time to time latency goes widely up (right
now I get 400 to 700 ms pinging www.yahoo.com). Am I the only one with
these fucked up service? THEY SUCK! Any other Internet provider in the
zone?
cron...@gmail.com
Am I the only one who was been having major problems with Adelphia
(Internet service)? I been having *lots* of prolonged downtimes, I am
losing packets (pinging www.yahoo.com) all day long (about 1%
throughout the day) and from time to time latency goes widely up (right
now I get 400 to 700 ms pinging www.yahoo.com). Am I the only one with
this fucked up service? THEY SUCK! Any other Internet provider in the
zone?
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seem to get a decent signal from the cable. I pretty much had no
connectivity. Long story short I finally ended up replacing the cable
between my house and the street and now all is well (or at least as
well as it can be with Adelphia). Getting Adelphia to show up for
trouble tickets is always a pain so good luck.
For the past 6 months or so I have had pretty good service. Here's my
ping of yahoo:
PING yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=1
ttl=53 time=31.1 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=2
ttl=53 time=20.1 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=3
ttl=53 time=18.5 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=4
ttl=53 time=22.7 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=5
ttl=53 time=18.5 ms
My max download speed right now is: 4.5 Mbps. Max upload is 440 Kbs.
Latency is pretty good. I run ssh terminals constantly with my
connection with out much problem. Occasionally I'll have connections
dropped for no reason but not enough to piss me off.
Tell them you are not going to pay for a service they aren't providing.
The time I had problems I demanded they compensate me for the time that
my internet connection was down (and they did).
One other thing about Adelphia. They block common ports that servers
run on (which really sucks).
Here's the list of ports they block (last time I ran a port scan):
80/tcp filtered http
135/tcp filtered msrpc
136/tcp filtered profile
137/tcp filtered netbios-ns
138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
1720/tcp filtered H.323/Q.931
4444/tcp filtered krb524
5554/tcp filtered unknown
9996/tcp filtered unknown
27374/tcp filtered subseven
My final advice: Try to get someone from Adelphia out to your house to
check the signal strength of your cable line. Demand that they pay you
for the down time. Replacing the old cable will probably fix the
problem.
cron...@gmail.com
Good to see an nmap user =) I'm one of the contributors to nmap (I
wrote one of the stealth scans...), so I hope you like it =)
I'll start my battle with Adelphia... it's amazing with the price they
charge that they give shitty service like this... Power of monopoly
someone said?
ppps...@hotmail.com
fir verizon DSL. Alot cheaper and with sufficient speed you need
starting from $15/month.
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be forced into purchasing a land line phone simply for internet
service. I actually tried to get Verizon DSL but they refused unless I
also paid for phone service. I have a cell phone, I refuse to pay for
another line.
If you're going the DSL route, price both nTelos and Verizon. Both are
available in bburg.
Beartooth Staffwright
> While I won't disagree that Adelphia sucks, some people don't want to
> be forced into purchasing a land line phone simply for internet
> service. I actually tried to get Verizon DSL but they refused unless I
> also paid for phone service. I have a cell phone, I refuse to pay for
> another line.
>
> If you're going the DSL route, price both nTelos and Verizon. Both are
> available in bburg.
Both are available in PARTS OF Bburg. Back in June '03, before we made an
offer, much less put down earnest money on a house in Northside Park, I
got the then phone number, checked dslreports, which sent me to verizon,
and *put* *in* *an* *order* -- which Verizon accepted. We still don't have
a DSL connection -- despite having taken Verizon up on subsequent offers,
repeatedly.
Otoh, there *is* a wireless provider now -- which, alas!, I don't find
right off -- that claims to be able to provide service in this part of
town now with a supplementary antenna, or without it starting next month
some time. I don't recall whether it's the Riner one, or one coming out of
Cburg, or what. I emailed; they didn't answer for what seemed ages; then
did, saying they had sent a tech here first to check, and continuing with
explanation of the antenna question. That was this June, iirc. For a
hundred bucks, I elected to wait till I wouldn't need the antenna.
(I posted all that here at the time, but don't find it now.)
If I don't get back to them, I hope and trust, they'll get back to me, and
fairly soon. Stay tuned.
--
Beartooth Staffwright
Squirreler & Wordcrafter
Not Quite Clueless FC5 Power User
Beartooth Sciurivore
No, not by comcast or coxnet or whatever it calls itself.
Way back On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:52:04 -0400, I Beartooth Staffwright
wrote:
> Otoh, there *is* a wireless provider now ... Stay tuned.
Sorry for taking so long. The provider is Citizens' Telephone, a
Floyd County co-op, which I've now had since September of -06. It is
faster, much more reliable, and has incomparably better service, than any
DSL (let alone cable) I have ever had anywhere.
Contact them at <frontdesk...@citizens.coop> -- note
that .coop, not .com, extension.
For the record, the only contact I have now or have ever had with
Citizens' is as a very well-pleased customer.
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Beartooth Implacable, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
What do they know of country, who only country know?