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[tommie gorman]

Very nice indeed.  

[mudmanc4]

sparky, on 08 December 2010 - 06:42 PM, said:

Frontier gave me twice the speed and for no extra cost.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 7121 Kbps about 7.1 Mbps (tested with 6 MB)
Download Speed is:: 869 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)
Test Time:: 2010-12-08 17:08:32 GMT -7
Bottom Line:: 124X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.18 sec
Tested from a 6 MB file and took 7.077 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Running at 451% of hosts average (Unknown)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/P2FBYSLQR
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 [!]

DOH ! haha , nice, geezus i bet your shinin right now over this one yes ?

I had to get to know the guy's running the show , go to the office enough , BS with the ladies up front , talk to the boss man here and there till he asked me my name, small talk trying to keep up with someone that knows how to configure the lasers firing at the head end and determine a bad card in a node from a shell was a real bitch. But after a while we ended up havin a beer here and again on his way home. Next thing I knew I was getting a new port and drop. A leak test up and down the street and patches all over the place lol So like you say , pays off to communicate. Too bad they promoted him to regional , haven't seem him since. And i learned a lot from him.

[sparky]

Yep, totaly agree with you, been communicating with a lot of people, regional, directors and many more.  They got it in the end and I guess the speed increase was a gesture of good faith.
Pretty happy now with the service, can't wait for it to go bad again and maybe get higher speeds! LMAO.  Serious, it worked out pretty good.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 8737 Kbps about 8.7 Mbps (tested with 6 MB)
Download Speed is:: 1067 kB/s or 1.1 MB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)
Test Time:: 2010-12-12 17:24:54 GMT -7
Bottom Line:: 152X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.96 sec
Tested from a 6 MB file and took 5.768 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Running at 556% of hosts average (Unknown)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/Y29MCK7ER
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 [!]

[sparky]

Back to 3Mbps.  6+Mbps was too unstable for my distance, was getting issues with it.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 3056 Kbps about 3.1 Mbps (tested with 6 MB)
Download Speed is:: 373 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)
Test Time:: 2010-12-14 16:06:34 GMT -7
Bottom Line:: 53X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.75 sec
Tested from a 6 MB file and took 16.489 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Running at 198% of hosts average (Frontiernet.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/EOAMXL8FT
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 [!]

[sparky]

Just a recap on this, I am back on the 6Mbps Plan, been on it now for many months and its working out great.  Turns out it was faulty routes that was slowing me down, but Frontier have been out as per there promise and the have been installing optics to cope with the capacity problems.

They have a huge thumbs up from me seeing as they are cleaning up the mess Verizon left them in.