Woot, no more ATTBI after today

[ScottyB]

Today my DSL is being switched on by Ameritech. I will no longer have to use the service from the most God-awful, lying, cheating, stealing company ever (AT&T broadband); which gives the most God-awfully, horrible Internet service.

 

[yakko]

Good luck with the new company.

 

[Maverick]

you lucky lucky man...they're my only choice

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Today my DSL is being switched on by Ameritech. I will no longer have to use the service from the most God-awful, lying, cheating, stealing company ever (AT&T broadband); which gives the most God-awfully, horrible Internet service.

Where are you at? I have had ATTBI for about 6 months without a single problem.

 

[LordThing]

Dittos for me....4 more weeks of ATTBI then this little weenie is gone. Well, I will be gone, but same outcome. Probably going to get some Covad luvin at the new house.

 

[Electric Amish]

I've been on ATTBI for over a year and never had a problem.

amish

 

[ScottyB]

Originally posted by: klah

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Today my DSL is being switched on by Ameritech. I will no longer have to use the service from the most God-awful, lying, cheating, stealing company ever (AT&T broadband); which gives the most God-awfully, horrible Internet service.

Where are you at? I have had ATTBI for about 6 months without a single problem.

East Lansing.

My internet has been working less than half the day every day since we had it. It has worked for about 5 minutes in the last 4 or 5 days(I am on dialup now). They technicians came out twice both times they were sent to put a booster on for better throughput. The first of the technicians came and told us there was no such thing and left without doing it. The second came and said the first guy lied and we installed something. The operator that sent the second technician also said that there was no reported outages in our area by anyone else, he told us that a lot of people have been having similar problems in my area. We were supposed to get free installation and a free month of internet, and they sent us a bill which we had to pay. THey now owe us $109 in credit, which they said we won't get for 90 days, because someone didn't send us the coupons they were supposed to send us. They act like we are thieves every time, like we are trying to get them to come out and fix our problems when nothing is wrong.

 

[Draco]

While I've had nothing but good service from ATTBI (So far *knock on wood*), I think your entering a world of pain with Ameritech More so then you could possibly imagine with ATT.

Then again, Ameritech might have good service in your area.... who knows.

Happy trails!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Today my DSL is being switched on by Ameritech. I will no longer have to use the service from the most God-awful, lying, cheating, stealing company ever (AT&T broadband); which gives the most God-awfully, horrible Internet service.

It's customers like you who have a hard time with a few techs and service that brands the entire company. It's customers like you that I don't mind seeing leave. Good luck.

nik

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
I've been on ATTBI for over a year and never had a problem.

amish

Exactly.

nik

 

[boyRacer]

Well good luck... hope it's a lot better with Ameritech... i'm on ATTBI too and don't have any problems... other than them jacking up the price a bit for people with their own modems... if i could only afford to upgrade my account for more bandwidth i would.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
Well good luck... hope it's a lot better with Ameritech... i'm on ATTBI too and don't have any problems... other than them jacking up the price a bit for people with their own modems... if i could only afford to upgrade my account for more bandwidth i would.

You're still paying less than people who rent their own modem.

nik

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
Well good luck... hope it's a lot better with Ameritech... i'm on ATTBI too and don't have any problems... other than them jacking up the price a bit for people with their own modems... if i could only afford to upgrade my account for more bandwidth i would.

You're still paying less than people who rent their own modem.

nik

Yah I know but it takes a bit longer now before the modem pays for itself... i think i'm only paying $5 or so less... used to be around $10... i'm such a stingy bastard...

 

[NutBucket]

heh, I just called up ATTBI yesterday to get taken off the mailing list. I have a beef with the cable company and will never pay for their service. The funny thing is that all the mailings we got were in Spanish.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
Well good luck... hope it's a lot better with Ameritech... i'm on ATTBI too and don't have any problems... other than them jacking up the price a bit for people with their own modems... if i could only afford to upgrade my account for more bandwidth i would.

You're still paying less than people who rent their own modem.

nik

Yah I know but it takes a bit longer now before the modem pays for itself... i think i'm only paying $5 or so less... used to be around $10... i'm such a stingy bastard...

It used to be a $10 dollar difference between owning and renting. Now it's $3.

nik

 

[alm99]

ffmcobalt,
I am on ATTBI, last night my service was doing fine until l put in a 3gb hdd jut to format and took out my system(probably completely unrelated). Now all I get in IE is an error saying something about you are not authorized....SAS Proxy server. Have any ideas?


Also I shut off the computer and reset the cable modem, but that did not work

 

[Electric Amish]

The only small annoyance from ATTBI is that they only support "Outlook Express" and not "Outlook".

I just don't understand that.

amish

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: alm99
ffmcobalt,
I am on ATTBI, last night my service was doing fine until l put in a 3gb hdd jut to format and took out my system(probably completely unrelated). Now all I get in IE is an error saying something about you are not authorized....SAS Proxy server. Have any ideas?


Also I shut off the computer and reset the cable modem, but that did not work

Doesn't sound like anything a Format c:\ and reinstall wouldn't fix. Sounds like the problem is your side, not ATT.

amish

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
if i could only afford to upgrade my account for more bandwidth i would.

Does ATT offer any other residential cable services above 1500/256?

 

[alm99]

also I use Mozilla and I have no problems, I tried updating my antivirus software, but it too gives me the error message, kazaalite works though. The wife likes IE over Mozilla

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: alm99
ffmcobalt,
I am on ATTBI, last night my service was doing fine until l put in a 3gb hdd jut to format and took out my system(probably completely unrelated). Now all I get in IE is an error saying something about you are not authorized....SAS Proxy server. Have any ideas?


Also I shut off the computer and reset the cable modem, but that did not work

Yeah, that's easy. In IE, Tools > Internet Options > Connections tab > Lan Settings button

uncheck "use proxy server" -and everything else for that matter

voila.

nik

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: klah

Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
if i could only afford to upgrade my account for more bandwidth i would.

Does ATT offer any other residential cable services above 1500/256?

If you are in one of the test markets, we have a package that is 3000/384 (some markets are 512up)

nik

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
The only small annoyance from ATTBI is that they only support "Outlook Express" and not "Outlook".

I just don't understand that.

amish

ATTBI doesn't have to support the calendar, the journal, etc. that way. That's why. And, since the two program's email exchange functionalities are virtually identical, we won't argue with customers. We'll just support the smaller one.

nik

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
The only small annoyance from ATTBI is that they only support "Outlook Express" and not "Outlook".

I just don't understand that.

amish

really don't want to do that now that I finally got my ATI TV wonder to work properly in XP(as close to properly as I could anyway)

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
The only small annoyance from ATTBI is that they only support "Outlook Express" and not "Outlook".

I just don't understand that.

amish

ATTBI doesn't have to support the calendar, the journal, etc. that way. That's why. And, since the two program's email exchange functionalities are virtually identical, we won't argue with customers. We'll just support the smaller one.

nik

That's what I'm getting at. The email functionality and setup is virtually the same, yet if I tell a tech that I'm using Outlook they just say, "Sorry, we don't support Outlook." I don't expect them to help me with the calendar or journal or any other functionalities other than the one that helps me get my mail.

Oh, one other small annoyance, I can't POP3 my email unless I'm connected to the ATTBI network.

amish