[FiOS] Competition for Frontier FiOS?
Portland and surrounding suburbs being considered by Google Fiber... Google says it may bring its hyper-fast, Google Fiber service to Portland. A decision could come later this year. Here's a Q&A...
View Article[DSL] USB Port on Netgear 7550
I was hoping to connect an external hard drive to the USB port on the 7550 but it doesn't appear the hard drive is recognized by the device. Anyone know whether it can be used for NAS?
View ArticleRosedale West Virginia has Broadband, but not turned on yet.
Just like the title says. Rosedale West Virginia, Has Fiber ran all the way from Frametown WV to below R&L Store in Rosedale, to a brand spanking new DSLAM. (Seen them installing the hardware on...
View ArticleIronic Buffalo ?
Anyone else think it's ironic that Frontier advertising of late includes a dressed up buffalo, an animal that is almost extinct and known to be dumber than a rock?
View ArticleHistoric DSL pricing
In my area Frontier was once known as Citizens. Here is DSl pricing from 2001.
View ArticleAny speed upgrades planned this year?
Just wondering if there are any speed upgrades planned for this year? When I first started on FIOS in 2008, I had 25/25 which was a great speed then. I upgraded to 35/35 in 2009 and have been stuck...
View Article[DSL] Terrible DSL service in Southern Indiana (Corydon)
Never had this problem before, but for the last couple of weeks, the internet has been terrible. Slow and timing out. I think I am dropping packets. Any idea what I should do? Here is a couple...
View Article[DSL] Horrific 24/2 speeds & story
Well here's my story, Around September last year i moved from Wildblue to frontier 24/2 VDSL. It worked for about a month till it started giving horrendous issues. Around 5-6PM I'd hit around...
View ArticleFrontier Focusing on Customer Retention
News story in our local paper re: quarterly earnings ...... http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2014/02/24/frontier-communications-quarterly-earnings/5790195/
View Article[FiOS] POP3 Client for XP instead of Eudora?
Hello ALL: I have been using Eudora for decades, but ever since Frontier changed to Yahoo Mail (I hate it) I have friends on a list I use, that say they get blank messages. Also, when I get my new...
View Article[DSL] New 24/2 Install
Just got the bonded 24/2 installed with a ZyXEL modem here in Bloomington, IL. Pretty decent speeds; speedtest.net is giving me 23M/1.8M (overhead), so not bad. Locked in at $54.99/mo for two years....
View Article[FiOS] Slow Downloads from Apple iTunes in Redmond, WA
In the past couple weeks I have noticed that my streaming speeds from Apple have noticeablly slowed down. Symptoms include taking much longer to actually start watching a movie (waiting for enough to...
View ArticleCall forwarding on Copper-POTS or Fios-POTS
Hi, How do i setup call forwarding on Frontier POTS line to a voip provider like Anveo. Are you able to get multiple simultaneous calls forwarded? Thanks Ik.
View Article[FiOS] Latency Spikes after 7:30PM in Portland area (FIOS)
There was a topic for this previously but i can't respond to it. Has the capacity been added that BenJ had mentioned as I still cannot rid myself of this latency during peak hours.
View Article[DSL] Acceptable Latency
I know it's a funny term. I was told that if you can get "up to" 75% of your Bandwidth Speed that is acceptable, but what about Latency? What is an acceptable amount for say your first hop? I know some...
View Article[Internet] Caps
Does Frontier have data caps I can't find anything on the website about them if it helps my area code is 62948
View ArticleDNS
visiting my parents and they have frontier DSL, it is all they can get. Issue is they are using the frontier DNS servers, would like to switch them to google or l3 or something else, I cant find in the...
View Article[DSL] Provisioned speeds
Just got dsl service from Frontier a few days ago. Service is stable but slow since the installer said he would have to provision the line speed to 1.5 meg due to the distance (3.2 miles) to the...
View ArticleHigh Latency
Back when we moved into our new house we used to have a Siemens Gigaset SE567 modem router and I had tested my internet speeds. The results from a wireless connection through a few walls, to an iPod,...
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