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darkguardian1314
member since 03/23/2006
I'm from United States
About me: Joe six pack intersted in justice and fair play. Love technology. Wants to be the next Steve Jobs!
User Votes: 6 Helpful / 1 Funny / 1 Agree / 0 Disagree
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1317 days ago

Had SBC Yahoo DSL Pro for 6 months. I love the dsl service and the self adjusting software that checks and tunes the modem for best results. It's a good match for the media provide by Yahoo! and the DSL speed provided by SBC. The negatives are few but important. First, when I signed up it was SBC and now it's AT&T. I heard horror stories related to AT&T and was able to avoid them whne posible. Well, now they're on my door step and my account was moved into the AT&T system this week. The stories about AT&T are well earned from what I see. I'm a long time SBC customer and have had broadband with @home cable and Earthlink DSL. (@home folded and Earthlink didn't deliver reliabity leaving me with no service daily after 4PM and refusing to fix it.) I pay my bill monthly but sometimes I forget and go past a few days. It was cool under SBC as long as I paid up during the month. I pay my bill online directly. Under AT&T, I was working a lot and the bill was due on the 10th. I finally realize the bill wasn't paid and logged in. The bill due was for this month and the next with a date of May 10th with $75 due right now. I decide to pay $150 for this month and the next. The screen then ask to confirm this action which I did then a redline came up and demands that I pay an additional $90 deposit. There was no email or notice regarding this. I had arrange for this to happen but there was no warning. It just popped out of nowhere. I had to pay $240, all up front by May 10 or face termnation. I call customer service and they verfiy this is an error since I must have terminated service for nonpayment for the deposit to kick in. It was the Easter weekend on top of that. I had my account passed to another and they just say pay the bill and in a year you'll get your $90 back. But I never had a termination and I do pay in full each month. Why make it more difficult to pay by locking the system to accept only this amount and nothing else for being 10 days behind. They're strict. This happen today Apr 21, 2006. I did pay the $240 to keep service going but want the deposit back immediately. If they refuse to compromise and work with me I will dropped them and go to Cox Cable. I've been an SBC customer for 12 years and deserve better. I was 10 days late and they demand triple payment. That's nuts. At least I'm paying my bill each month with gas prices the way it is. I'll let you know how it turns out. Update: They give me a credit that won't show up until June 10th. If not then call or email them. They critized me for paying the deposit. It was all or nothing. They also critize me for ignoring my statement. I told them I don't get statements. It's all online. I did have a good payment history so they did somewhat help me.
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1347 days ago

This is an update and clarification of the incident I had with Earthlink over a period of time with my DSL cutting off after 4 PM daily. I've been using this serve for a while. I had been using broadband since 1997 with @home network before they went under and I signed up with Earthlink. I had them since 2000 and the first 2 years was rock solid with no outages. But from 2002 on its been the dsl from hell. Calls to customer support wanting me to move my modem; replace cables etc. The problem is intermittent net service after 8 pm or sometimes all weekend until Sunday afternoon. I can connect but thier remote server isn't passing on any info. This is dsl service at $50 a month. Customer service give canned responses and don't listen to what the problem can be. It sounds like some of them are still in their teens. I even move the computer next to the phone and shorten the phone line connection to reduce signal loss; reinstall WinPoet and card drivers. No effect. The fact that it's up to me to prove it's their system is frustrating especially since I'm a tech. The Customer Support indicated I had 3 strikes against me - shorten my cable (that worked for 2 years prior); I live in an apartment meaning my neighbors my have something blocking my dsl. and one phone jack; meaning I need to have that checked out. I'm going back to cable modem. For all I know my CO maybe on the edge of the preformance edge. The first thing I do is check network status,which is always active with outages at my job before I leave. That's how bad it is. For the money I'm paying, I don't want sometimes on internet. It could be simply overloaded with more users signing up for the service than the system can handle. Earthlink you struck out after 2 years of waiting. The customer service was totally rude and even though I get mailings from them to come back and see their cut commericals I won't be coming back. I went with SBC Yahoo DSL and very happy I did. I'm using the same computer and phone lines and had no problems. :)
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1347 days ago

Customer for over a year on prepaid plan. Phone works ok. The sight and phone service has a hip hop feel to it with lots of music and street style wallpaper for the phones. My problem is with customer support. I upgrade from a gray scale to a color phone. All I wanted was my account and number transferred to the new phone (the number was already assigned to boost mobile). This should be simple but it took three call before getting somebody that knew HOW to do it. Just today I wanted to update my credit card info and the website said I needed to call Boost Mobile Cust rep to do this. I call and after 2 dropped calls I got through. I explain what I wanted to the rep indicating that the card info now on file is no longer valid. The person said I should update the info online. I laugh and told them the website said card info can only be updated by calling service rep. She then takes my boost phone number, my full name, my password for the account, my last 4 SSN, my home address, my prior addresses, my age, my date of birth, then said there's some challenge questions. None of the questions made sense but I answered them accurately. She then ask if I live in New Orleans, Beaufort NC etc. and I answer no to each. She then says you can't use the card because the challenge info wasn't answered correctly. She blamed the bank but the questions I set up at the bank are not even close to ones they asked. I ask what recourse I have and she said you have no recourse. That's it. No one to call or write. Nothing. I could to buy a Reboost card and recharge that way but I can't use my card online despite all the information I gave them. I talked to the Supervisor and thou he was friendly he wouldn't even verify if the information I gave them was even correct. I'm left with no recourse. Do I call back another day or what? They offer nothing to help me. I'll use their services since I bought the phone and I can still reboost the minutes but once the phone gets old I'll be looking elswhere.
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