kombolcha Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 with in the recent month my cable has had 2 downtimes one lasting almost 2 days... when i called they're either upgrading servers or they have a virus in their system.. and today i noticed that my DAP doesn't work like it used to.. it would start downloading and then stop and i have to restart it a lot... i can't play online games anymore like ET.. impossible to play. can't stay signed into messenger for more than a minute without it disconnecting.. same with trillian skype seems to be the only thing connected, but i don't use it because it's a resource hog imesh light doesn't connect anymore. and downloads aren't as fast as they used to be. and lastly i can ping anything but i'm able to post this :argh: my computer was recently fresh installed.. and i've set up my NIS firewall correctly and disabled the XP firewall. any suggestions or comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 raise hell on adelphia :punk: Reason because.... well thats just totall b******** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liar2 Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 I'd have to say that's the reason I've stayed far, far away from Adelphia. They always claim to be "upgrading" stuff. I've never seen their cable tv or internet be stable for longer than 2 weeks. I'm thankful that I'm out of their range. So yeah, I'd most definitely raise hell on them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted October 4, 2003 Author Share Posted October 4, 2003 ... just got off the phone with them, and the last 20 billion times i have called they have failed to mention (until now) that my Terayon modem is a piece of hippo crap :angry: everytime they said.. we're upgrading.. virus.. wait for it... it should be up... we're sorry for the inconvinience. so now i gotta drive to the local office and switch it with a "surfboard" bran modem :wacko: do we have a middle finger emoticon? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted October 4, 2003 Veteran Share Posted October 4, 2003 Well at least you new modem will be a good one. It's a motorola and, as far as I know, alot of people here have them, including me, and it works beautifully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 do we have a middle finger emoticon? lol .. ya we need one. if it isnt there. BTW Vice . I too have terayon Modem. but is fine here. maybe it works better in crappy bombay climate (Hot, humid with no winter season.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted October 4, 2003 Author Share Posted October 4, 2003 :( nahh.. i can have the best modem on earth and adelphia would still suck with their endless downtimes and upgrading.. too bad Verizon don't have DSL yet (in my area).. and i can never go back to dial-up or even satellite.. that's a double :x :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74barrio Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 Adelphia has disabled pings indefinitely due to the blaster worm (an advisory email from them was sent out). Also, I have Adelphia cable/internet in Redondo Beach and outside of two instances service has been great: 1) The switch over from @home was a complete mess ? during the first month: my account was "accidentally" closed out three times, they started charging me a lease fee for a modem I owned, and my connection would drop off repeatedly. 2) About a year ago my modem would lose its connection during the day and then re-sync at night. For the life of me I could not figure out what was wrong, so I called Adelphia and after getting past tier three in their service hierarchy a service guy was sent out to test the signal strength on the lines. Come to find out the signal was weak and this was causing all my problems. They "boosted" the signal and I have had pretty good service ever since (wonder if this could be your problem). Since then, the only real problem has been email issues which usually last less than a day and have somewhat tapered off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted October 4, 2003 Author Share Posted October 4, 2003 (edited) the cable has to be good.. he installer replaced the entire 100+ foot of cable that goes from my house to the cable box and there's this little "switch" in there that has controls for 8 houses and he replaced that aswell. i don't have any problems with their email service though.. since day one (first time i went online) i have never enjoyed the connections.. 56, disconnects constantly.. satellite, not even going to talk about that.. cable, i just talked about it. :cry: [Rant]also.. having an adelphia person come to my house to fix something? HA!! they can't even get my address right.. correct address is deerfield PLACE, but adelphia has me under DRIVE.. deerfield drive is not even considered a rode.. it only connects two parallel residential streets :crazy: so when i called to check availability of cable.. they said no cable is not available at your house number in deerfield pl.. but if i gave them the house number of my next door neighbor @ deerfield pl.. EUREKA!! they've found it... but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! even though i'm his next door neighbor (some 10 feet away) i'm supposedly on drive about half a mile away.. sure the other houses are just for pretend. [/Rant] Edited October 4, 2003 by Vice King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 my isp is great :) i love it shaw cable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenmuncher Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 my isp is great :) i love itshaw cable me too... i first signed on about 5 years ago when it was@home the transistion was smooth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[hxc] Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 telus treats me great too! no cap on downloads, and in the year i've been with them, 3 downtimes. 2 for about an hour and 1 for about half a day. thank you telus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero1 Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 Well, i had this same problem with my broadband company when i got it, out of the first 6 months only about 3 of them it actually worked. The thing is, you're probably not the only one, so there will be hundreds of other people calling them up also. I was waiting on the godamn support line all day with the annoying music going just to get through to a guy that told me that they did not know what was going on either. However, since that time its been fine, so it might be better to wait a bit Find out if your ISP has a status page (like this one) where you can keep an eye on them ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted October 5, 2003 Author Share Posted October 5, 2003 na i don't think adelphia has one.. they don't even have a status page for web space users.. best i can do is ad is hit counter :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgowanbl Posted October 5, 2003 Share Posted October 5, 2003 I think that adephia is the shizzle , i know cause here on the adelphi and it is working the great. Youe not like ing it because you use the XP. It is not good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salterbomb Posted October 5, 2003 Share Posted October 5, 2003 adelphia just announced that they are upgrading all their customers to the 3mb download package for free just like every other company is doing. soon you should be pleased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted October 5, 2003 Author Share Posted October 5, 2003 (edited) adelphia just announced that they are upgrading all their customers to the 3mb download package for free just like every other company is doing. soon you should be pleased. :omg: i swear i got the butterflies in my stomach when i read that... *sniff sniff* :cry: .. :happy: if you're lying i know where you live :shifty: in huntsville, Texas :laugh: .. i'm calling to make sure... but wtf i'm not even calling tech support but it's a 10+ min wait and a bunch of cities on the east coat are down :no: Edited October 5, 2003 by Vice King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted October 5, 2003 Author Share Posted October 5, 2003 :woot: 3Mbps :woot: took a simple speed test and got my highest ever 320 kbps.. (2.5 mbps) ... now i'll just do a modem swap and see if i can get to the max of 384kbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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