Re: ISP's

[fiaid@quasi-sane.com]

you wanna know how bad they are?  when i worked there, they bounced my 
paycheck about 5 times.  on top of that, they have usually 1-2 people who 
know what the hell they are doing out of the the 7-8 they have answering 
the phones.  did i mention that there was a tech there whose solution to 
everything was "wipe and reinstall" even if the power was off at a pop?  i 
will say this though, fun place to work, the endless hours of playing 
quake ctf with the rest of the admin team.  and the entertaining fun of 
your boss coming down into the admin office with a 24 pack and calling it 
a day at 11am.  damn, those were the days.  i would recommend apci also, 
my parents got them and have no problems.

tighe

> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Ophidian wrote:
> 
> > accessus always worked great for me, this was a few years back
> 
> Accessus has taken a dump all over itself in the last year or two. My Mom
> was so furious she forced a refund from them.
> 
> Let's put it this way.  When your customer's cant call in because of an
> "upgrade", are you still an ISP?
> 
> I'd look around for POP's for various ISP's and go from there.  Someone
> has to be port wholesaleing down there (which would explain accessus's
> POP) and may be able to provide better customer service.
> 
> I'd do a search on Carbondale ISP in google and see what returns.  
> 
> > anything but earthlink basically, i hear the most complaints out of
> > earthlink customers
> 
> Agreed.  My mom switched over to APCI and has been happy, thought I'm not
> sure what APCI's POP's are like.  (My mom's wife had been with APCI until
> she got her cable modem... back when APCI allowed you to check your email
> with pine).  
> 
> Note:  POP =  Point of Presence.  Someone got the bright idea to make
> their extra portmasters available for dialin for a small charge.  Thus the
> industry of Port Wholesaleing began and thus the reason why many regional
> ISP's can have a national presence.
> 
> Sean...
> 
> 

-- 
Tighe Schlottog         workape         fiaid
"Nothing is too cruel if it is funny enough."


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